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Washburn University track and field assistant Rick Attig doesn’t have anything left to prove in a coaching career that has included outstanding success at the high school, NCAA Division I and now Division II levels.
But the 68-year-old Attig is still enjoying himself too much to even think about walking away from the sport he loves.
“I don’t think I could do that,’’ Attig said. “I think it would drive me nuts. We have three acres and I could mow my grass. I still do that, but I just couldn’t imagine doing anything else than coaching. I’m still loving it.
“It’s one of those type of things that if I was retired, I would still want to do it as a hobby because I get lots of enjoyment out of it.’’
Rick Attig is in his fifth season as an assistant track and field coach at Washburn, continuing an ultra-successful high school and college coaching career. [Photograph courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
Attig may be best known for his work as a jumps and multi-events coach at the University of Kansas and Nebraska, but also enjoyed success at Raytown South (Mo.) High School early in his coaching career and at Blue Valley North before joining Washburn head coach Cameron Babb in 2016 to help relaunch the Ichabods’ track and field program after a long hiatus.
“I recruited Cameron to help me there at Blue Valley North,’’ Attig said. “I would try to recruit decathletes or heptathletes to help coach at Blue Valley North and Cameron came in and did just a really good job. He’s a really good coach and I really like him.
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Veteran Washburn Rural volleyball and girls basketball coach Kevin Bordewick is one of 23 high school coaches from across the nation selected as 2020 National Coaches of the Year by the National Federation of of State High School Associations Coaches Association.
Bordewick, the lone honoree from Kansas, has been at Washburn Rural for 28 years, including 26 seasons as the Junior Blues' head volleyball coach and 12 seasons as Rural's head girls basketball coach.
Washburn Rural's Kevin Bordewick, who has 1,099 victories as a head coach at Rural, has been named a National Coach of the Year for 2019-20 by the NFHS. [Photograph by Rick Peterson]
Bordewick has coached Washburn Rural to seven Class 6A state championships in volleyball and one in basketball while compiling a 1,099-284 record at Rural (896-218 in volleyball, 203-66 in basketball). Bordewick has 1,175 career victories.
Bordewick was named a national coach of the year for the 2019-20 school year for volleyball.
"It's very humbling and I really think it's more of an award for eveybody that's been involved in some way, form or fashion for the Washburn Rural community,'' Bordewick said. "All the assistant coaches that we've had, the administrators, the athletic directors, the principals, the school board, to me you can't have any of that (success) without their support and continual backing.''
And, of course, Bordewick knows his programs have been blessed with talented student-athletes over the years.
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Hunter Bentley
HUNTER BENTLEY, Washburn University
A senior guard, Bentley scored 34 points in two games on the week for the Ichabods en route to becoming the 24th member of Washburn women's basketball 1,000-point club. Bentley scored a game-high 21 points (4 3-pointers) in a 73-49 win over Lincoln and reached her career milestone with 13 points (3 3-pointers) in a 64-55 loss to Emporia State.
Noah Hastert
NOAH HASTERT, Cair Paravel Latin
Hastert, a 6-foot-6 junior, scored 19 points and also contributed 6 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 steals as Cair Paravel improved to 7-3 on the season with a 74-45 road victory at Burlingame, the Lions' 4th straight victory.
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Romain Henry won a gold medal and set school records in a pair of events to lead the Washburn University men's track and field team in Saturday's Kansas Open at the Washburn Indoor Athletic Facility.
The Ichabod men set two school records while posting 20 top-10 finishes with 12 personal-bests and NCAA provisional marks in Saturday's meet while the WU women tallied 15 top-10 finishes, two NCAA provisionals and a school record.
Henry, a freshman from Aix En Provence, France, broke his own school record in the 60-meter hurdles in 8.12 seconds, recording an NCAA provisional mark with the fifth-fastest time in the nation this season en route to his second straight win in that event.
Henry placed second in the 400-meter dash, breaking the school record in the event by over a half second while turning in a time of 49.41.
Logan Stock finished second in the men's high jump with a jump of 6-foot-61/4 inch and was fourth in the 60 hurdles (8.51), while Nasjon Porter was second in the triple jump at 45-11/2, while Peyton Lane was fourth in the pole vaul at 15-10, earning an NCAA provisional mark. Former Washburn Rural state champ Zac Chandler was sixth in the pole vault at 14-101/4.
Junior Sierra Mortensen, a Maize South product, won the women's mile run in a time of 5:18.24, while Lily Johnson finished second in the 800 meters, breaking her own school record in a time of 2:19.46.
Junior Virgi Scardanzan, from Preganziol, Italy, was second in the women's pole vault, recording an NCAA provisional mark and a indoor personal-best at 12-113/4. That vault is tied for the second-best in the nation this season. Rachael Mayberry placed third in the pole vault at 12-4. Skyler Saunders finished second in the high jump, clearing 5-51/4.
Hayden product Darian Hillebert placed fifth in the 200 (26.35).
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Silver Lake’s boys and girls basketball teams finished off their appearances in the Burlington Invitational with a pair of third-place finishes.
Silver Lake’s boys edged Independence 48-42 while the Lady Eagles rolled to a 59-33 win over the Bulldogs.
The Silver Lake boys, who improved to 5-5, were locked in a 19-all tie with the Bulldogs at the half, but took a 2-point advantage (30-28) into the fourth quarter and outscored Indy 18-14 down the stretch.
Silver Lake, which won for the fourth time in its last five games, had three double-figure scorers, with sophomore Kamryn Kaniper scoring 16 points with 4 3-pointers while senior Dawson Wyre added 14 and senior Andrew Osterhaus 10 points.
Independence, which fell to 1-9, was led by Easton Ewing's 10 points.
Silver Lake’s girls, 5-4 on the season, broke open their game against Independence with a 22-10 second quarter and turned the contest into a rout with a 22-4 third quarter, opening up a 56-24 advantage.
Freshman Makenzie McDaniel led four players in double figures for the Eagles with 14 points while sophomore Taylor Ross added 13 points and sophomore Lexis Berndt and freshman McKinley Kruger 12 each.
