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FHSU
Hires Soccer Coaches (7/14/10)
The
start of their inaugural season is still over a year away, but
Fort Hays State has hired their new men’s and women’s
soccer coaches. Oliver Twelvetrees, who currently coaches at
Barton (Kan.) Community College, will head the men’s program
while Craig Shaw, who has spent the last three years at Ottawa
(Kan.) University will guide the women. Twelvetrees has made
the Barton program a perennial power, going 75-9-3 over the
past four years including two conference championships one
region championship and a district title which qualified the
Cougars for the eight-team national championship tournament.
Shaw was 38-20-5 in three years at Ottawa and won the KCAC
title this past season and has had the league’s Freshman of
the Year in all three of his years. He says he’s have a mix
of freshman and junior college transfers. Shaw begins his new
job at the end of the month while Twelvetrees will coach the
Cougars this fall then start at Fort Hays State in December.
Fort Hays State president Dr. Ed Hammond says work on the new
stadium is ahead of schedule and construction and should be
complete by August of next year.
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Johnson
Hired As FHSU Head Baseball Coach (5/20/10)
Fort
Hays State has turned to a former assistant to lead their
baseball program. Steve Johnson has been named the program's
13th head coach, replacing Rick Sabath who stepped down at the
end of the season. Johnson has spent the last seven years as
head coach at Butler Community College, leading the Grizzlies
to three conference titles and one NJCAA World Series
appearance while winning 30 or more games in all but his first
season in El Dorado. Johnson started his coaching career at
Fort Hays State where he was an assistant for two seasons
under both Curtis Hammeke and Bob Fornelli and was on the
staff when the Tigers made their first NCAA II tournament
appearance in 1997. Johnson was also an assistant at Barton
Community College and Louisiana-Monroe.
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