2009 Hall of Fame Award Winners
Kelli (Benson) Jeffries, Grand Island
Inductee (Athlete)
Tom Ernst, Columbus
Inductee (Athlete)
Sarah (Fredstrom) Secrest, Omaha Burke
Inductee (Athlete)
Pat Hodges, Lexington
Inductee (Athlete)
Andy Meyer, Superior
Inductee (Athlete)
Jim "Squat" Myers, York
Inductee (Athlete)
Rich Osentowski, Ord
Inductee (Athlete)
Laura Tietjen, Byron
Inductee (Athlete)
Larry Tomlinson, O'Neill St. Mary's
Inductee (Athlete)
Jim White, Hastings
Inductee (Athlete)
Curlee Alexander, Omaha North
Inductee (Coach)
Roy Bassett, Hastings
Inductee (Coach)
Jerry Eickhoff, Hampton
Inductee (Coach)
George O'Boyle, Lincoln Pius X
Inductee (Coach)
Keith Staehr, Kimball
Inductee (Coach)
Roger Barry, Schuyler
Inductee (Contributor)
Ray Ehlers, Lexington
Inductee (Contributor)
Dale Butler, Norfolk
Inductee (Official)
Team Awards
Fischer Family Award
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Welcome to the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation Website! The Hall of Fame Foundation is a non-profit organization operating for more than 20 years with the idea of preserving the history of high school sports. It makes several awards annually honoring individuals and teams and has inducted more than 240 athletes, coaches and/or contributors, including some of the great names in Nebraska sports such as Gale Sayers, Johnny Rodgers, Carol Frost, the Fischer family, Tom Kropp, Nancy Kindig-Malone, Bob Gibson, Bob Boozer, Amy Stephens and Tom Osborne.
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We Have a Good Cause: Please Help Us Out
The Hall of Fame officialy kicked off its capital fund drive on 11/23/08, with a press conference and a tour of our exhibition hall in the Nebraska School Activities Association building at 500 Charleston Street in Lincoln.
Thanks to a sizeable donation by a person preferring anonymity, the drive has reached $500,000.
The goal is $1.5 million, which has been determined as a minimum requirement to provide an entertaining, modern presentation of Nebraska high school sports' past in the 7,000 square foot area.
"We anticipate we will begin to furnish the hall as soon as we get to the halfway point," said Bob Whitehouse, president of the foundation board of directors. "We're paying rent now and we've started working on schematics."
Fund drive chairman is Steve Johnsen, director of the the Nebraska Coaches Association, also officed in the NSAA complex. For more information or to make a contribution, please contact Johnsen (steve@ncacoach.org), Hall of Fame executive director Dick Beechner (golopers@aol.com), president Whitehouse (Bob.Whitehouse@ops.org) or any of the board members listed elsewhere in this website (board).
The hall will include a theater and it was unveiled at 11/23 as the Wally McNaught Theatre, named after longtime Lincoln Southeast basketball coach and athletic director. The anonymous donor made the McNaught honor possible.
 The NSAA's new building...
where the Hall of Fame will have a home. |
Miracle
On Vine Street
Go
here
to see a video clip of one of the greatest moments in Nebraska High School
Sports, the Miracle on Vine Street in 1971. Dick Janda's excellent news work 10
years later re-plays and analyses the last minute heroics.
2009 Selections
Announced
What we call our Class of 2009 was announced 3/29/09, and includes all award
winners in all of our categories to be honored this fall.
Click here to read about these great
people chosen for their contributions to high school sports.
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2009 Awards Program
Ticket Order Form
NEW AWARD CATEGORY:
- Dominant Dynasties. Purpose: To honor schools/teams whose achievements were dominant over a period of time.
Print a nomination form
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