Logan Chieftains 2013-2014

[pfloyd]

noreply66 - Little will be a go for hoops season ... have seen him at school, he said he will be fine, looking to get cleared by doc soon ... the brace he was wearing is now gone ...

[javagt]

Does anyone have a list of Logan basketball coaches from the late 1960's to present? I played for Bob Combs/ Ken Insani and after I left, I lost track of the basketball program for many years.

[noreply66]

Does anyone have a list of Logan basketball coaches from the late 1960's to present? I played for Bob Combs/ Ken Insani and after I left, I lost track of the basketball program for many years.

A Quote from Coach Combs...''Boomer you laugh like you have a bone caught in your throat."

[Logangrad]

I researched for three months and updated all the basketball records in 2006 and got a list of coaching wins so I'll go off of my own memory, but here goes

In the mid 1980s to 1988 Kirk Hardman
Several SEOAL Championships, AP #5 in 1987

1989-2005??? Gary Swinehart
SEOAL CHAMPIONS, took only team to ever reach regionals in 2000


2005??-2012 Keith Myers
Former player at Logan, could never get over the hump but solid coach

2012-present
John Helber
20 years as Logan JV coach before getting varsity job and this season will be his best team to date

[javagt]

Thanks LG ... I do remember a few others, Harry Westfall (long time ago) a big guy named Adkins (before Combs), then in the '70's didn't Mark Shaw coach? Also, Scott Fitzgerald (good HS player at Athens under McAfee), coached a few years. I thought NOREPLY would know them all, since he's older than dirt.

[noreply66]

Thanks LG ... I do remember a few others, Harry Westfall (long time ago) a big guy named Adkins (before Combs), then in the '70's didn't Mark Shaw coach? Also, Scott Fitzgerald (good HS player at Athens under McAfee), coached a few years. I thought NOREPLY would know them all, since he's older than dirt.

LOL...........Guess I didn't see this topic

[LHS 72]

Logan Basketball Head Coaches since 1932!

1932-1932 John Longley
1935-1936 Carl Schroeder
1936-1943 Tom Bender
1943-1944 C L Mackey
1944-1947 Tom Armstrong
1947-1953 Dwight Diller
1953-1955 Lee O'Brien
1955-1961 Harry Westfall
1961-1963 Ed Lendenski
1965-1967 Bob Combs
1967-1971 Ken Insani
1971-1972 Dick Taylor
1972-1978 Scott Fitsgerald
1978-1979 Ray Miller
1979-1981 Mark Shaw
1981-1988 Kirk Hardman
1988- Gary Swinehart
Keith Myers
John Helber

[moonshine]

Logan Basketball Head Coaches since 1932!

1932-1932 John Longley
1935-1936 Carl Schroeder
1936-1943 Tom Bender
1943-1944 C L Mackey
1944-1947 Tom Armstrong
1947-1953 Dwight Diller
1953-1955 Lee O'Brien
1955-1961 Harry Westfall
1961-1963 Ed Lendenski
1965-1967 Bob Combs
1967-1971 Ken Insani
1971-1972 Dick Taylor
1972-1978 Scott Fitsgerald
1978-1979 Ray Miller
1979-1981 Mark Shaw
1981-1988 Kirk Hardman
1988- Gary Swinehart
Keith Myers
John Helber

What each coaches record?

[loganlocos]

What each coaches record?

I don't think anyone has that info. If so I've never seen it.

[Paladin]

Some info on former coaches -- javadt...... the Adkins was Brooks Adkins. He became a school administrator in some Cleveland suburbs. I had dinner with him one night up here talking business. He lived a couple of houses up from me on North Walnut St. when I grew up. Anyone know what happened to Ken Insani ? Knew him too and most did not know he was going blind. Had a serious problem. Lost track of him. I knew Harry Westfall and his son Bill who was a pretty good athlete at Logan. I coached Mark Shaw while at Logan in baseball.

[Paladin]

Never mind about Ken Insani. He died in 2009 after a 38 year teaching /coaching career, retiring in 2001. Won a state basketball title at Clarksburg Notre Dame in West Virginia, his home town.

[noreply66]

Never mind about Ken Insani. He died in 2009 after a 38 year teaching /coaching career, retiring in 2001. Won a state basketball title at Clarksburg Notre Dame in West Virginia, his home town.

had Insani for 9th grade math

[javagt]

Never mind about Ken Insani. He died in 2009 after a 38 year teaching /coaching career, retiring in 2001. Won a state basketball title at Clarksburg Notre Dame in West Virginia, his home town.

had Insani for 9th grade math

Ken Insani started at Logan as the reserve basketball & assistant football coach. I played bb for him in the 10th grade. We won 75% of our games that year. In the 7th, 8th & 9th grade we never won a single game. He was a good coach and well liked. A big guy that stood over a foot taller than Bob Combs.

[Paladin]

I also knew Bob Combs. He left coaching to work for the Ohio State Dept. of Education

[javagt]

Combs lived in the East end. noreply66 & I played basketball with him at the East school baskets. Quick little guy, but I loved to block his shots. lol

[Paladin]

I went to East . Then we moved to N. Walnut when I hit Jr.Hi. Combs was a funny dude.

[Paladin]

Some of you may remember Bob Marcum, who was my position coach when I played football at Logan. He had a long career as a coach and then college AD. Was AD at Kansas ., South Carolina ( they had a drug scandal down there while he was there), UMass and finally Marshall where he retired from. His nickname was Kayo ( he was a 250 lb RB at Marshall, lol)

[noreply66]

Combs lived in the East end. noreply66 & I played basketball with him at the East school baskets. Quick little guy, but I loved to block his shots. lol

Those where the good old days......shoveled the snow off to play ball. Summer time seemed like we would play from 9 to 9......Javagt lived across from the school and would have his meal brought to him...lol

[Logangrad]

What each coaches record?

I don't think anyone has that info. If so I've never seen it.

Thats correct. With all the research I did I only was able to attain Hardman and Swinehart's records.

[moonshine]

Talk about a funny dude! Bill Nardo. Tried to scare the crap out of all 7th graders Phy Ed!