| BBB: Miracle on Vine Street Lincoln East’s last second shot by Scott Copple, winning the 1971 state tournament final against Papillion. Chosen in 1995 |
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| BBB: Winning Ways Wahoo’s 114-game boys basketball winning streak. Chosen in 1995 |
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| BBB: Scoring Explosion Ed Vondra scored 102 points for Brainard in a 1922 basketball game. Chosen in 1995 |
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| BBB: Fantastic Final The 50 points by Andre Woolridge of Omaha Benson in one game during the 1992 Class A state tournament, an individual showing in terms of inside-outside that had a huge Devaney Center crowd in awe of what took place on the floor in front of them. Chosen in 1997 |
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| BBB: Multi Miracles Wahoo High School in 1989 was in the early segment of a state record winning streak that eventually in 1992 reached 114 games, The streakest biggest scare came in the finals of the 1989 boys state tournament when the Warriors won a state championship with two dramatic three-point goals in a Class B finals overtime victory. Down by 61-55 with 11 seconds left and no timeouts remaining, Bernie Inbody made a 30-footer , then made a steal and got the ball to Troy Glock whose last-second field goal did some dramatic bouncing from rim to backboard and back, sending the game with Lincoln Pius X into overtime. Inbody started the overtime with a three-pointer and Wahoo went on to win by 68-66. Chosen in 1998. |
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| BBB: In Focus The 1976-77 newspaper photograph by Rudy Smith of the Omaha World-Herald, shot at the conclusion of the thrilling boys basketball tournament championship game between Holdrege and Aurora, captured the essence of high school sports—the joy of the winners, the anguish of defeat and the compassion of a dedicated coach. Chosen in 2001.  |
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| BBB: Point Parade 1934 basketball game. With Avoca winning by 100-0 against Syracuse, a game which is believed to be the only Nebraska high school game mentioned in "Ripley's Believe It or Not." |
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| BBB: Huge Jump Shot Matt Kelly, Millard South. With two seconds left, Matt made the jump shot that defeated Columbus in the 1989 Class A State Championship game. This win for Millard South cinched the first undefeated season for a Class A team in 29 years and gave the team a No. 23 team ranking in the nation. Chosen in 2002. |
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| Basketball: The Big Barn "The Old Barn," is what the Nebraska Coliseum was affectionately known. It played host to the state basketball tournament from 1926-76. In 1926, 339 teams competed in 22 classes. With the 1976 state finals to be played in the new Bob Devaney Sports Center, the Class C semifinal in 1976 was the last game played at Barn, Walthill 56-54 over Howells before a crowd of 3,421. Brian Blum of Howells scored the last basket. Chosen in 2003. |
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| FB: Football Fun To the Nebraska School Activities Association, for initiating the football playoffs. Chosen in 1995 |
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| FB: Gridiron Rampage Falls City Sacred Heart’s 87-game football winning streak challenged for the national record. Chosen in 1996 |
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| FB: Running Wild Cory Eikmeier of Dodge, competing in eight-man football, established state records for one season rushing, of 2,965 yards, career rushing of 8,330 yards; one season touchdowns of 68 and career touchdowns of156. His career covered four seasons, 1994 to 1997. His Friday night gains covered almost five miles. Chosen in 1997 |
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| FB: End Zone Blitz John Cook, Beatrice, for 98 points scored in 1912 in one high school football game. His team won by 128-0. Chosen in 1998. |
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| FB: End of an Era Six-man football, the salvations for years for the sport in small schools, was invented in Nebraska in 1934, spread across the country in rural America and flourished for most of the rest of the 20th century, until school consolidations provided schools with larger enrollments and less need for the six-man game. The Hall of Fame inducted its inventor, Stephen Epler of Chester in 1995, and chooses today to honor the sport once more by saluting the two teams playing last November in the final six-man state championship sponsored by the Nebraska School Activities Association--Milligan and Benedict. Milligan won game at Memorial Stadium by the score of 35 to 28. The teams are honored equally here today for making their contribution to high school sports history. Team rosters:
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| FB: Unbeaten, Untied, and Unscored Upon Class B Ravenna's 1968 team completed the season not only undefeated but allowed no opponent to cross their goal line or score a point. Gibbon came the closest, coming within six yards but the threat ended with Gary Reiter's pass interception. The Blue Jays netted a total season output of 275 points to their opponents nil. Add to this a third consecutive conference championship and things were to be right with the world in Blue Jay land. Dick Roberts was the head coach.Chosen in 2000
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| FB/BB: Historic Double In 1975, the first year of the NSAA-determined football championships, Nelson High School won the Class D 11-man football title and followed it with the basketball championship in March, thus becoming the first official winner of state championships in the two sports in the same year. Gary DeBoer was the football coach, Tom Murray the basketball coach. Team Members:
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| FB: Action Packed Final 2 Seconds In a 1960 high school football game, Broken Bow and Hall of Famer Kent McCloughan lead Valentine by 21-18 with two seconds go. Jim Murphy of Valentine intercepted a Broken Bow pass in the end zone and the clock ran out while he was running 102 yards for a game-winning touchdown. Final score: Valentine 24, Broken Bow 21.Chosen in 2001. |
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| FB: On the Run Fillmore Central's Michael Brower, the first 11-man football player in Nebraska to rush for 1,000 or more yards in each of his four seasons. His season totals in order were 1,063 yards, 1,321, 2,342 and 2,374 in 2003 and 6,099 yards in his career. Chosen in 2004. |
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at Last. The NSAA’s invitation in 2006 to the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame and to the Nebraska Coaches’ Association to share building space in Lincoln. Chosen in 2007.  |
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| General: Program of the Decade Lincoln Southeast won all sports championships nine times in the 1990's. The school has won 106 state championship trophies since its opening in the 1950's, more than any other school in any class during that period. In the 90's decade for the Knights, 1993 was the banner year with six state championship trophies. The Total Championships Tally in the 1990’s for Southeast:
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| GBB: Point Champion Darcy Stracke of Chambers reaches a record 2752 career points in girls basketball. Chosen in 1996 |
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| GBB: Record Wins In its first 20 years of existence in modern times, girls basketball had its big scorers, had its steady growth in skill level, had some outstanding games. If all the sport needed to complete its growth beyond respectability was a bigtime winning streak then Chambers High School provided it with its 1993 to 1997 consecutive winning streak to 87. If anyone wants the record now, they have their work cut out for them. And that’s the way records should be. Chosen in 1997 |
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| GBB: Girls Basketball’s Biggest Shot Girls Basketball had its greatest finals crowd at the 1996 Class B state tournament, had one of its finest finals games ever regardless of class and perhaps was headed for one of the sport's greatest upsets, as Lincoln Pius X led favored South Sioux City into the final seconds. Alas, what the sport got was its most dramatic state tournament finish, via a last-second three-point goal by South Souix City's Kim Sublet that won the championship game by one point, 67-66. Chosen in 1998. |
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| GBB: Cougar Power Sandy Creek’s sixth girls consecutive girls basketball state title and 95 consecutive wins, both state records for the Cougars and their coach, Russ Ninemire. Chosen in 2001. (See pictures of teams.) |
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| GBB: Nothing But Net Karen Moore's 1982 field goal, from 73 feet, at Pershing Auditorium. This shot ended Lincoln Northeast's championship game against Kearney. It was the longest basket made in the history of the girls state tournament. However, it was only good for two points because it was made before the inception of the three-point rule. Northeast lost by one point. Chosen in 2000 |
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GBB: West Point Central Catholic Girls Basketball and Four Fun Years Can it get any better than this: Megan Neuvirth, Jackie Knievel and Angie Ridder played four years of basketball at West Point Central Catholic and never lost a game. This amazing run of success from 2001-2006 produced a state record 111-game winning streak and four Class C-2 basketball state championships for the coach Jerry Stracke’s team. The Bluejays went 26-0 in 2002, 26-0 in 2003, 25-0 in 2004 and 25-0 in 2005. The streak ended on Jan. 12, 2006, at Bancroft (45-44). Many of the same girls who brought this basketball success also played on state championship volleyball teams in 2001-04. Chosen in 2006. |
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| Golf: Fore (Times Two, Plus Three) Oakland-Craig’s 11 straight golf championships in golf, a streak gaining national recognition for Nebraska in this sport. It appears this streak is the longest state title run in any high school sport in the state. Chosen in 2001. |
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| Officials: Fifty Years of Officiating Vern Plambeck of Kearney approaches 50 years in stripes. A referee who has officiated football since 1954, he missed only the 1957 season while serving in the Army Reserve. He also officiated basketball for many years and has been an observer of officials. Chosen in 2003. |
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| Track: Fast 100 Hastings College Invitational’s 100-yard dash in 1961 produced five runners all at 10 seconds or faster, led by Bob Williams of Lincoln High at :09.5. Kent McCloughan of Broken Bow, Steve Regan of Hastings, Tom Millsap of Grand Island, Doug McArthur of Hastings and Allan Wingert of Arapahoe followed. Chosen in 1995 |
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| Track: Miracle Mile 1947 State Track Meet, Class A mile run between Marvin Zimmerman, Nebraska City, and Bill Mountford, Red Cloud, a meeting of talented athletes that captured the attention of track and field that season and remains even after 50 years one of the great high school head-to-head competition of all time of any sport. Mountford's winning time was, of course, a state record 4:26.2. Chosen in 1997. After 58 years, they meet again. |
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| Track: Awesome 800 State record run of 1:51.7 by Ryan Barrows, York, in the 800 Meters at 1997 State Track and Field Championship Meet, beating a 20-year-old record many believed would be good for another 20 years. Chosen in 1998. |
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| Track: A Century of Gold The state track meet, which recently passed its 100th year, is the longest standing high school championship event. The state track meet has produced great entertainment in those 100 years and the Hall of Fame chooses to honor the event for its 100 plus "Great Moments" by saluting those who directed this great meet. In the last 40 years of the century: Charlie Foster, Burton (Bud) Feaster, Willa Scudder, Merle Bauer, Tom Hallstrom, Rex Jones and Duane Haith. Chosen in 1999. |
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| Track: Barrier Breakers The pole vault is one high school event which has a measuring stick to specifically identify when an athlete "takes it to the next level." A Great Moment came when the following athletes were the first over the vaulting bar at the even-foot levels. Boys 12 Feet - John (Choppy) Rhodes, Ansley, 12-0, 1922. 13 - Merlin (Beanie) Lawrence, Alliance, 13-3/4, 1958 14 - Randy Reeves, Omaha Benson, 14-0, 1965. 15 - Bill Lauer, North Platte, 15-1¼, 1971. 16 - Bump Novacek, Gothenburg, 16-0, 1985. Girls 11 - Jaime Volkmer, Kearney Catholic, 11-8, 1999. Chosen in 1999. |
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| Track: Achievement of the Century Gale Sayers’ 24-10 1/2 long jump in 1961 state track meet, coming on his last jump in a duel with Lincoln High’s Bobby Williams, continues to rank as one of this state’s best achievements in high school sports. Now 40 years later, it hasn’t been seriously challenged for the state record. Chosen in 2001. |
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| Track: A Track & Field Machine Tony Little, the one-man track team from Mullen, won the 220, long jump, and triple jump and came in second in the 100-yard dash to score all of Mullen's 38 points in the 1977 State meet to win the Class D state championship single-handedly for his school. Runner-up Cambridge followed by four points. Chosen in 2002. |
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| Track: Title Run Kearney High boys winning nine straight Class A state track championships. Chosen in 2003. |
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| Track: Lift Off Grand Island Central Catholic pole vaulters Gable Baldwin and Jenny Green setting state records (16-4, 13-3, respectively) at the Central Nebraska Track Championships and state meet records (16-0, 13-0) in 2003. Chosen in 2004. |
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Track: Robert Rands, Bellevue East, and The Jump that
beat THE Jump Just as we’ve touted Gale Sayers’ 1961 long jump record leap of 24-10 ½ as a great moment in high school athletics, we are just as eager for the athlete who broke that record to be elevated to similar status. The honor goes to Robert Rands, a 2005 Bellevue East graduate, for his 25-feet, ¼-inch jump in March, 2005, to break the NFL star’s 44-year-old record, and for his 24-11 ¼ that replaced the Sayers’ state meet record. Chosen in 2006. |
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| VB: Decade of Dominance Bellevue West dominated Class A volleyball like no one else since 1989, winning eight state championships (including a state record six in a row) under the direction of Coach Joanne Kappas. The school currently has a string of 12 straight years where it qualified for the state tournament (that’s a record, too), has collected numerous team and individual state records and had several players honored as all-conference and all-state. Prior to this decade of dominance, no Class A school was able to win more than two consecutive state championships in this highly competitive sport. Current records standing from this Bellevue bunch include team kills and team assists in one season, 1496 career kills by Jamie Hamm, 544 season kills by Hamm, per match kill average (13.6) by Hamm, 2,891 career assists by Stephanic Clerc, 1,050 one season assists by Morgan Monzingo and per match career average by Monzingo. Bellevue West Volleyball Players & Coaches, 1989-1997
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| VB: Volleyball Aces The Columbus Scotus volleyball team's state record winning streak reached 115 matches before a loss in the 2004 state championship match to Lincoln Lutheran. The Shamrocks’ last loss was in the 2000 state final when they lost to Central City. After that, the Shamrocks went 29-0 for three straight years and were 28-0 entering the match with Lincoln Lutheran. Chosen in 2005.. |
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| Wrestling: Wrestling History Cousins Don and Ken Nordhues of Greeley both won fourth individual state championships in 1995. Chosen in 1995 |
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| Wrestling: Pin Master A career of record-setting wrestling wins by pin by David Miller of Kearney during 1995-98. His state records: Most pins season (36), career (120), state tournament (13), consecutive (41). He also holds the Class A record for most career victories (141). Chosen in 1998. |
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| Wrestling: Shades of Dan Gable The 2000 state wrestling tournament wrapped up a phenomenal high school career for Brad Metzler of Omaha Westside High School. He became the first Nebraska high school wrestler to complete four consecutive seasons undefeated. This also placed him in that elite group of four-time state champions. Chosen in 2000 |
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| Wrestling: Unbeaten, Untied Career Brett Allgood, Bennington, completed his high school career in 2002 without a single loss. and a record in his four years in NSAA sponsored competition with 140 wins, which placed him in that select group of only ten young men in the history of the sport to gain this elite status of being a four-time State Champion. He was also undefeated in club level competition during those same years. Brett was awarded the Guy Mytty Outstanding Senior Wrestler Award in Class C by the Nebraska Scholastic Wrestling Coaches Association plus being named to their All Star team for the year 2002. Chosen in 2002. |
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| Wrestling: Champion Every Year Todd Menelly, Omaha Skutt Catholic, joined that very elite group of four-time high school state wrestling champions. His high school record was 135 wins and only one loss, which was to Brett Allgood, another four time champ crowned in 2002. Todd received the Guy Mytty award for the outstanding Class A wrestler by the Nebraska Scholastic Wrestling Coaches Association and was also selected for their all-star team. Chosen in 2002. |
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| Wrestling: Kingpins. Four-time state wrestling champions Dirk Desmond of Hebron (136-3), Kasey Kohl of Omaha Skutt (139-1) and Jake Rucker of Louisville (140-5. with 104 pins). Chosen in 2003. |
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| Wrestling: No. 1 Every Year Four-time wrestling champions Chris Oliver, 125-0 from Omaha Creighton Prep, and Jason Katusin, 139-5 from Springfield Platteview. Chosen in 2004. |
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