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Tapping Talent: Bart Powell
Louisville, Kentucky
VYPE: What brought you to Southern Indiana?
Powell: I’m originally from Northern Indiana. My parents were both gone and run my own business and I could pretty much travel wherever I wanted to live. My wife’s from here and I like the area and I hated the snow. So we came down here—and I love it.
VYPE: How did you get involved in coaching?
Powell: I actually started playing volleyball... More 
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Coach Marty Donlon
Louisville, Kentucky
VYPE: Tell us about your coaching and teaching career.
Donlon: After I got of the service in1963, I went to work for Underwood Olivetti selling typewriters and calculators, but every day I would end up at St X watching basketball practice. Joe Reibel was the head coach then. He said, ‘why don’t you quit screwing around and come on and try this for a year.’ At that time we... More
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Sam Gilbert
Louisville, Kentucky
When the DeSales Colts football team takes the field this season they will be leaner, stronger and more agile thanks to the efforts of strength and conditioning coach Sam Gilbert. At age 26, coach Gilbert is in his second year of coaching at DeSales. He is also an instructor at Velocity Sports Performance. A native of Columbus, Ohio and a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, Gilbert earned his masters degree... More
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Matt Brown
Louisville, Kentucky
VYPE: Tell me about your background.
Brown: I decided to go to U of L for college and not play football. My high school football coach, Mike Jackson, had asked me to help coach the Oldham County team once I graduated. I studied political science, and then went on to receive my Masters in Education so that I could teach social studies in high school.
VYPE: What... More
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Martha and Dr. Robert Todd
Louisville, Kentucky
VYPE: How did you get into coaching basketball?
DR. TODD: We both played basketball for Bellarmine University. When we graduated, I went on to medical school.
MRS. TODD: And I taught school. After I’d been teaching one year, one of the parents asked me if I would coach the middle school girls’ team. That was in 1976. Then I went to Holy Rosary and coached their high... More
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Coach Valdis Bole
Louisville, Kentucky
HSSTM: Tell me about your background.
Bole: I grew up outside of Chicago and started playing soccer when I was 9. I played collegiately at Aurora University. I have been coaching since I graduated from college back in 1980. I started at Atherton in the fall of 1990. My wife grew up here. I have two sons. One is a junior here [at Atherton]; he plays tennis. The other one... More
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In the Right Place
Louisville, Kentucky
HSSTM: Did you ever want to do anything besides teaching?
Kraeszig: I didn’t know what I wanted to do at first. I got a BA from Bellarmine and I worked for the lottery and then for a bank. Then it became very obvious to me after reading a Lou Holtz book that said, “If you can look around you and see people you want to be like in the... More
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Wise Words
Louisville, Kentucky
HSSTM: How did you get started in coaching?
Small: I started out in 1972 as the middle school coach at Mount Washington Middle School in Bullitt County. I coached football, basketball, track and field. In 1980, when they opened Bullitt East High School, I took the job as girls’ basketball coach.
HSSTM: How did you get to Western Kentucky University?
Small: In 1984, I accepted a position as assistant... More
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Ashlee Bell
“I have been searching for a player like Ashlee Bell since I began coaching over 20 years ago,” says Chris...
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