Maryville Daily Forum
Thursday, March 20, 2014
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QUOTABLE “Our goal would be to be very competitive in all of our events and put ourselves in a position to be successful in competing at the conference and district meets.” -Jefferson, South Nodaway track coach Charley Burch
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Local official one of NCAA’s best By STEVE HARTMAN Staff writer
When the NCAA Men’s Division I basketball tournament gets underway today, Maryville will have its own connection, as local resident Terry Oglesby will be working his fifth consecutive tournament as an official. Oglesby, a three-sport athlete at Maryville High School and nephew of legendary Hall of Fame basketball coach Claude Samson, graduated in 1982 and began officiating intramural and city league basketball in 1983 as a way to make a few extra dollars while attending Northwest Missouri State University. “At first, I officiated just to make some extra money,” Oglesby said. “After awhile, I realized it was a good way to stay around the game.” Oglesby credits one person in particular for his development as an official. “I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for Bob Lade,” Oglesby said. “He taught me how to be professional. From how to carry myself on the court to little things like being on time — Bob really helped me learn how to be an official.” Lade, the Director of Recreational Sports at Northwest Missouri State University, is quick to downplay his role in Oglesby’s development. “I encouraged him, especially when he first started,” Lade said. “But he has gotten where he is today because of hard work, great communication skills and a high degree of professionalism.” Oglesby officiated at the high school level from 1990 until the early 2000s. He worked several Missouri state basketball tournaments during that time. He also officiated football and umpired baseball and softball. As his family grew, Oglesby gave up officiating football and baseball to concentrate on basketball. After working six straight nights at the
King City basketball tournament in the early 1990s, a fellow official shared some information with Oglesby that caused him to reevaluate his officiating career. “Danny Brown asked me what I was going to make for officiating all six nights,” Oglesby said, “and I told him $300. He said ‘I made $600 last night officiating one women’s college basketball game.’ “I called Bob Lade the next day to ask him how to get into officiating at the college level.” Lade remembers the conversation well. “I had been encouraging him for awhile to go to camp,” Lade said. “Every college conference has a summer camp used to evaluate and hire officials, and I had been telling Terry he needed to go to some of these camps so their evaluators could see what I saw in him. Needless to say, he did well, and they saw that ‘it’ factor that he possesses.” Oglesby worked five years in the Heart of America Conference before moving up to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). After his second year working in the MIAA, two friends asked him to attend the Big 12 Conference summer camp. “These guys had been going to the Big 12 camp for six years and it was only about two weeks before camp started,” Oglesby said. “I called and asked if I could sign up to attend and they let me. Of course, I didn’t know they let anyone come try out, as you pay for the camp out of your own pocket. “The guys that I went with told me that if Dale Kelley (Big 12 Director of Officials at that time) pulled you aside at the banquet and said he wanted to talk to you the next day, you were hired,” Oglesby said. “I was sure he wouldn’t talk to me, because, in my opinion, I was nowhere near ready to officiate in the Big 12. Dale Kelley walks up to me at the banquet and said ‘Terry, I want to talk to you in the morning’ and walked away. I was still sure he didn’t See OGLESBY, Page 8
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Keeping the peace
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Maryville basketball official Terry Oglesby attempts to calm Kansas coach Bill Self down after Oglesby’s partner, John Higgins, assessed a technical foul against a Jayhawks player during the 2013 Big 12 Tournament.
Northwest golf finishes 2nd at Fort Hays Invitational MESA, Ariz. — The Northwest golf team had four top-10 individual finishes and the Bearcats placed second as a team on Tuesday in the final round of the Fort Hays State University Invitational at the Dobson Ranch Golf Course in Mesa, Ariz. Junior Taylor Gard had rounds of 82 and 80 to tie for third individually. Senior Kristina D’Angela and freshman Hanna Sears each tied for fifth. Sears played the event as an individual. Senior Cassie Lowell tied for ninth, junior Ashley Powers tied for 16th and sophomore Brooke Byland was 21st in-
dividually. Playing as individuals, freshman Taylor Gardner tied for 14th and freshman Kaydrie Bergner was 29th. Lindenwood won the event after posting a 10-stroke improvement on day two. Northwest finished second, nine strokes behind. The other MIAA team in the field, and tournament host Fort Hays State, placed fourth. Northwest will head to St. Joseph for the Missouri Western Invitational starting on Sunday, March 23. The event will be played at the St. Joseph Country Club.
Bearcats’ Cooper earns NABC All-District honors KEVIN BIRDSELL/DAILY FORUM
Jefferson — South Nodaway Track
The 2014 Jefferson/South Nodaway track team roster includes: front row, from left — Zach Carmichael, Nathan Galbraith, Jason Sullivan, Corby Walker, Damien Willmore, Ty Willtrout, Grady Luke, Grant Meyer and Michael Burch; second — Ean Hicks, Marissa Wiederholt, Katelyn Krames, Shelby Hull, Phelps Hawley, Sabrina Trautz, Asia Mclellan, Shelbi Owens, Maddison Clements and Jessica Hutson; third — Meaghan McConkey, Kristen Nielson, Mallory McConkey, Trinity Gross, Jessie Henry and Kelsi McQuinn.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Northwest senior guard DeShaun Cooper was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches 2014 Coaches’ Division II All-Central District first team on Wednesday. The NABC recognizes the best men’s collegiate basketball student-athletes and coaches in the division. Selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC in NCAA Division II, these 88 student-athletes and eight coaches represent the finest bas-
ketball players and coaches across America. Cooper, who was a first team CoSIDA/Daktronics all-district performer, was named the 2014 MIAA Player of the Year. He was the team’s leading scorer at 17.4 points per contest. He was twice named the MIAA Athlete of the Week and was named to the All-Central Region Tournament Team. The Bearcats finished the season at 249, reaching the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA Division II Tournament.
Jefferson, South Nodaway team up for track season
KC could pull off Super Bowl
By KEVIN BIRDSELL
AP Sports Writer
Staff writer
Editor’s note: The Daily Forum will be previewing every high school team in Nodaway County as the spring sports season approaches. This is another installment of a series that will be published over the course of the next several weeks. This spring, Jefferson C-123 will be hosting a track co-op with South Nodaway R-IV. The head coach of the co-op will be from Jefferson, Charley Burch. Joyce Stiens, Allie Helzer, and Cree Beverlin will assist him. Jefferson sophomore Jessie Henry, who excelled in high jump, and South Nodaway junior Kristen Nielson, who did well last year in the discus, will return to the team this year. “Our goal would be to be very competi-
tive in all of our events and put ourselves in a position to be successful in competing at the conference and district meets,” Burch said. With the returning success from last year, Burch thinks the girls’ team will be successful in the coming year. “I feel like our girls team will be very competitive in challenging for the top of the conference,” Burch said. Both teams will also welcome in quite a few freshman to round out the 31 participants. “I look forward to an exciting season in track with al the athletes we are returning and the resurgence of new athletes coming out,” Burch said. “It is great to see so many freshmen coming out and representing their school, too.” The teams will kick off their season in Albany this year at the Warrior Relays. The meet will take place at the football field in Albany on April 7.
By DAVE SKRETTA
Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt believes Kansas City could pull off hosting a Super Bowl after the NFL decided to bring its marquee game to a cold-weather venue this season. That doesn’t mean he expects it to happen anytime soon. Hunt said that the biggest obstacle to Kansas City hosting the Super Bowl remains the number of hotel rooms in the metropolitan area. The league requires at least 40,000 rooms to be available, far more than are available in Kansas City and its suburbs. “It’s something that the commissioner has been pretty consistent about in terms of Kansas City hosting a Super Bowl, that hotel rooms would be our biggest challenge,” Hunt said. “Clearly, the NFL has a set of guidelines for any Super Bowl, but I think in certain cases they’re willing to overlook certain things. So maybe that could happen.”
The next three Super Bowls have already been awarded to Glendale, Ariz., San Francisco and Houston and NFL owners will vote this spring on the 2017-18 championship game. That means that Kansas City would have to wait until at least 2019 for its chance. Even then, it would almost certainly receive strong competition from other cold-weather venues such as Denver, Seattle, New England and Philadelphia. “We could absolutely pull it off,” Hunt said. “Putting the hotel rooms aside, I know that we would have a fantastic Super Bowl and all of the guests would have a tremendous time.” He also said it could help if Kansas City lands the 2016 Republican National Convention. The city is competing with several others, including Denver and Las Vegas. “I think that would be very beneficial to a potential Super Bowl bid,” Hunt said of the convention, “and I’m hopeful that Kansas City is going to be selected for that. I’ve heard very good things about our chances.”