IBCA Names Coaches of Year

The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association named coaches of the year for junior high, high school and college.

Effingham High School's Jeff Schafer was named in Class 3A for girls high school coaches along with Altamont's Katie Lurkins in Class 1A and Teutopolis' Laurie Thompson in Class 2A.

Boys coaches named were St. Anthony's Cody Rincker and T-town's Jason Hanson in Class 2A. Dieterich's Josh Krumwiede was named in Class 1A

In junior high school, Mike Depoister (Effingham), Maria Tegeler (Teutopolis) and Carolyn Wendte (Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City) were named in the seventh-grade girls.

Named in eighth-grade girls were Jess Tonn (Effingham) and Steve Fritcher (Teutopolis).

In boys, Doug Smith (Teutopolis) was named in seventh-grade and Jordan Nelson (Altamont Lutheran Interparish).

Many people remember Mia Smith who is the women's basketball coach at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. She was named coach in the NCAA III.