DOUG THWAITS, Fairfield High School, 1974 ** Earned 9 varsity letters in football, basketball and golf ** Football – 4-year letter winner … named All-Northern State Conference in junior and senior seasons; named top defensive player as a senior ** Basketball – 3-year letter winner … scored 794 career points, 820 career rebounds (2nd all-time […]

BRAD PARK, Goshen High School, coach, Frontier High School, 1970, Manchester College, 1974 Head coach at GHS for 10 seasons 81-34 record (10 season at Sullivan High School in Indiana) Guided Redskins to 1999 IHSAA Class 4A state runnerup; 3 Northern Lakes Conference championships (1997, ’98, 2002), 2 sectional championships (1996, ’99), 2 regional championships […]

JIM POWERS, Jr., Elkhart Memorial High School, 1974, Furman University, SW Michigan College, DePauw University Indiana Silver Anniversary team honoree in 1999 Earned six varsity letters in basketball, baseball and tennis (11 total including Rochester High School) Basketball * scored 1,235 career points and grabbed 490 rebounds * averaged 17.0 for high school career * […]

KEVIN CRIPE, Northridge High School (1974) **Earned 14 varsity letters in track & field, baseball, football, basketball, cross country Track & field: ** 4 varsity letters – Won Raiders’ first sectional title in any sport with a 180-yard low hurdles in a school-record effort ** Led team to a 5th place finish at Elkhart Sectional […]

CARLA HAWKINS, Northridge High School (1974) **Four-year participant in softball, volleyball, basketball and track & field Track & Field: ** 3-time team MVP ** 4-time sectional and regional champion in low hurdles ** 4 seasons unbeaten in dual meet in 50 low hurdles ** finished 3rd (1973, ’74) and 4th (1972) at the IHSAA State […]

GREG STANLEY, Elkhart Memorial High School, 1974 * Three-year letterwinner in football and track, one-year letterwinner in basketball * Football – MVP and leading tackler in junior and senior seasons, all-Northern Indiana Conference, All-State in 1974 * Track – discus and shot put, set school and Elkhart city meet record of 163-7 in discus, shot […]

MONTE COOK, Jimtown High School, 1974 * Earned 12 varsity letters in 2 sports – basketball, football and basketball * Earned 4 varsity letters in basketball. Two-time All-Northern State Conference selection (1973, ’74); team Most Valuable Player (1973, ’74); graduated with single-season scoring record (21.7) in 1974 * Earned 4 varsity letters in football. Team […]

Ken Mirer, Goshen High School, Football and Baseball Coach, 1974-85. Ken Mirer’s sports career received a boost as a high school athlete in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he starred in football, basketball and baseball. After serving as an assistant football coach at Goshen and head coach at New Prairie, he returned to Goshen as head football […]

Doug Simper, Jimtown High School, 1974 Doug lettered in football three years and during his senior year Jimtown HS, coached by Gene Skirvin, was undefeated at 10-0. Doug still holds Jimtown records for touchdown passes and total yardage. He also lettered three years in basketball and four years in baseball. At Illinois State University, Doug […]

RICK MURRAY, ELKHART MEMORIAL, 1974 Rick was a state champion in track and all-state in football and was on the Charger Sweet 16 basketball team in 1974. He started his career as a soph at Elkhart High, competing on the last EHS team to win the Goshen Relays and was fifth in the state meet. […]