Randy Bates

Randy is currently the Activities Director at Norris High School.  He is a Certified Athletic Administrator by the NIAAA.  Randy has fifteen years of head coaching experience in both football and track & field, as well as, nineteen years as an athletic administrator.  He has served as a coach or AD in eight schools, both public and private.  His coaching has included four Mississippi Valley Conference titles in football and ten Class 4-A state play-off appearances, three Mississippi Valley Conference Championships in track, two Class 4-A District Championships, as well as, the Class 4-A Iowa State Championship.  He was inducted into the Cedar Rapids Washington High School Athletic Hall of Fame, as a coach, in 1996.  Randy is the past president of the Nebraska State Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association and a frequent speaker at state and national conferences.

Jeff Bellar

Jeff has been involved in high school athletics and education for 23 years.  He has been a teacher, head coach, and principal.  Jeff has taught physical education, health, driver education, and has been a high school principal for the last 14 years.  He has coached football, boy's basketball, and track.  As the head football coach at Norfolk Catholic Jr/Sr High, Jeff has guided his teams to 4 state championships, 3 state runner-up finishes, and 20 state playoff appearances.  The Nebraska Coaches Association named Jeff the Nebraska Coach of the Year in Football in 1999.  He also coached as an assistant and head coach of the Nebraska Shrine Bowl.  Jeff and his wife, Lorrie, have 3 children.  Jeff is looking forward to teaching "Developing Excellence in Others" this summer.

Bob Burkett

Bob is a Certified Athletic Administrator who is currently the Activities Director at Lincoln Southwest High School.  His coaching experiences include the sports of football, basketball and track.  Bob did an outstanding job of teaching the course Achieving Peak Performance last summer and is looking forward to teaching the new Developing Excellence in Others course this coming summer at South Sioux City High School.

Dennis Dolliver Dennis Dolliver

Dennis has been the Assistant Principal and AD at Norfolk High School for the past seven years.  Prior to that he was the Principal and AD at Stanton for eight years, Maywood for one and a teacher and coach at Blair for six years.  Dennis has coached football, basketball, track, golf and baseball.  His education background includes a BA from Midland Lutheran College and a MA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  He is also a Certified Athletic Administrator.  Dennis has been a member of the NASSP and NSIAAA for 16 years and the NCA for 22 years.  He has served as Secretary/Treasurer for NSIAAA, Secretary/Treasurer for NSASSP Region III and also as President of the Golf Board at Elkhorn Acres Golf Course for 3 years.  Dennis and his wife, Peggy, have two children, Jon and Jason.  Jon is a Business Teacher and Coach at Blair High Middle School; Jason is a Math Teacher at Norfolk Junior High.  Dennis & Peggy have one granddaughter, Avery who is 5.

Jack Guggenmos

Jack Guggenmos has been involved in secondary education in Nebraska his entire career.  In his four years at Dorchester, six at Arlington, and twenty at Aurora, he was a social studies teacher and head football coach.  During those thirty years, he also coached basketball and track.  Currently he is in his fifth year as an athletic administrator at Wavery High School.  During his years as a coach, Jack served as President of the Nebraska Coaches Association (NCA), an eight-year stint on the Executive Board of the National High School Athletic Coaches Association (NHSACA), the last six of those years as National Football Chairman.  He also coached as an assistant and as the head coach of the Nebraska Shrine Bowl Football Classic.  During this period of time, Guggenmos has spoke at over fifty football clinics in 10 different states ranging from Arizona to Washington D.C.  He has also done frequent motivational speaking for corporate, civic and professional groups.  Currently Guggenmos serves on the executive boards of the Nebraska High School Hall of Fame and the Nebraska State Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NSIAAA).  He is also on the Managing Committee for the Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA).  At Waverly High School Jack hosts, for the NSAA, the Class C-1 State Volleyball Tournament and the Class B Boys and Girls State Soccer Tournament.

Wendy Henrichs

Wendy Henrichs is the assistant athletic director at Lincoln East High School.  She came to Lincoln in 1997 after 16 years of teaching and coaching at Grand Island Senior High.  Her tenure in Grand Island included successful coaching stints in cross country, girls basketball and track.  Islander basketball teams under her direction reached the state tournament semifinals in both 1989 and 1992.  Henrichs coached track for 14 of those 16 years and worked with hurdlers as well as middle distance runners.  Both boys and girls cross country teams were under her direction in the mid 1990's with the girls placing second in the 1995 State Meet.  Henrichs grew up in Iowa, playing the 3-on-3 style of basketball and excelling in track.  Her senior year, she won three gold medals in the Iowa State Track Meet and ran in the prestigious Prep Invitational in Chicago.  She went on to compete in cross country, basketball and track at Central College in Pella, Iowa and was in an elite group of three-sport letterwinners.  Wendy is married to a sports writer, Todd Henrichs and together they are raising a sports fanatic in 9-year-old Grady.  She earned her master degree in administration in 2001.

Steve Joekel

Mr. Steve Joekel is currently the Assistant Principal for Activities and Athletics at Millard West High School, Omaha, Nebraska.  He was appointed to his present position in 1994, one year prior to the opening of the new Millard Public Schools high school in August of 1995.  In the year prior to Millard Wests opening day, he was involved in the planning, budgeting, and hiring of staff for Millard West.  His main focus has been in the development of an extra curricular activities program, which supports the Millard Public Schools mission statement and strategic plan.  Toward this goal, Mr. Joekel has been actively involved in the development of effective communication, planning and securing appropriate resources, hiring and supervising qualified staff, developing appropriate programs and ensuring a safe environment for the delivery of the activities and athletic programs at West High.  In seven years, Millard West has become known for its high quality fine arts, activities and athletic programs both in the metropolitan Omaha & Lincoln areas and statewide.  Of note has been the rapid development of their athletic and music programs and student council, with its unique open concept, which has marked Millard West as one of Nebraska's outstanding student councils for the last three years.  Steve has been actively involved on the Nebraska State Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association executive board since 1992, serving as the organizations secretary/treasurer, and President in 2001-2002.  In 1998, he was recognized by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association with Nebraska's State Award of Merit, and was the NSASSP Nebraska Assistant Principal of the Year for 1998-1999.

Jim Miller

Jim Miller is currently Head Girls Varsity Basketball Coach, Athletic Director, and Assistant Principal at Marian High School an All Girls Catholic School in Omaha, NE.  Jim has been teaching, coaching or in Administration for the last 32 years. Jim has coached Cross Country, Track, and is still coaching Girls Varsity Basketball.  Jim has won three State Championships and eight State Runner-ups in Girls Basketball and was named the Girls Nebraska High School Coach of the Year in 2000. In the year 2002 Jim was one of the eight finalists for National Athletic Director of the Year by the NHSACA and also one of the eight finalists for National Girls Basketball Coach of the Year by the NFCA. Jim was named this year 2005 as the Nebraska Schools Interscholastic Athletic Administrator of the Year.  During Jim's tenure as Athletic Director, Marian High School has won 29 State Championships, 67 District Championships , 4 Girls All Sports Trophies, and in the year 2000 Marian won five State Championships in the sports of Cross Country, Volleyball, Basketball, Swimming and Soccer. Jim has been married to Maureen for 25 years and has a daughter Jaime who graduated from St. Louis University and is an auditor for Deloitte and Touche, and son Brennan who is attending Creighton University.

Larry Munksgaard

Larry Munksgaard is the athletic director at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Larry's tenure at Southeast began in the fall of 1993.  LSE's athletic program has been awarded the Omaha World Herald large school All Sport Champions for eleven consecutive years.  The LSE program was recognized as "Athletic Program of the Decade" by the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame in October of 2000.  Larry received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.  He has also received the designation of a Certified Athletic Administrator by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.  Larry previously served 15 years as Associate Principal/Athletic Director at Cedar Falls High School in Cedar Falls, Iowa.  During his tenure, Cedar Falls initiated a drug and alcohol prevention program that reduced student/athlete usage of alcohol/drugs by 50% during their sports seasons according to student surveys.  The C.F.H.S. Booster Club was recognized as state and national booster club of the year.  While in Iowa, Larry was recognized as a State Award of Merit and State A.D. of the Year.  In Lincoln, he has organized a student/athlete Athletic Club, which has given out over $8,000 in scholarships based on service to the school and community.  He is currently helping to organize a state wide sportsmanship summit that will occur in November 2002.  He has been recognized as a State Award of Merit of the Nebraska State Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association, which he has served as state president and newsletter editor.  Larry has been an active member of the National Interscholastic Administrators Association.  He has served on the publications committee, and has been moderator of the Blue Ribbon Panel.  He has authored numerous articles, and he has presented four times at the national conferences.  He will be awarded the NIAAA distinguished service award in December, 2002.  He will assume a position on the national board of directors in 2003.

Kathi Wieskamp

Kathi Wieskamp is the Assistant Athletic Director at Lincoln North Star High School. Prior to moving to North Star, Kathi was a Physical Education teacher and the Head Volleyball coach at Lincoln Southeast for 17 years. Kathi has worked in education for 18 years at the high school and college level. As a volleyball coach, Kathi's volleyball teams made several state tournament appearances and in 2001 was State Runner up with a record of 32-3. She has been recognized with honors as both a teacher and coach. In 2001 she was named the KFOR-Ralph Beechner Coach of the Year, in 2006 she was recognized as the Mentor of the Year by the Girls & Women in Sports and Fitness and in 2006 she received the Ambassador Award from NAPHERD for her life long commitment to the promotion of physical education, fitness and sports.   Kathi played volleyball at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1984-1987).   She was a member of the 1986 National Championship runner-up team and earned honors as an Athletic and Academic All American during her college career.   Kathi was a member of the USA Junior National Team in 1985, training at the Olympic Training Center and touring in China and Japan representing the United States . Kathi is a color commentator for NETV, commentating University of Nebraska Volleyball matches and the Nebraska State High School Volleyball Tournament. Kathi has a BS in K-12 Physical Education and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership/Administration. Kathi is married to Scott and has two sons; Nicholas and Christopher.