Instructors: Nebraska
Jeff Bellar
Jeff has been involved in high school athletics and education for 27 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 18 years. He has coached football, boys basketball, and track.As the head football coach at Norfolk Catholic Jr/Sr High, Jeff has guided his teams to 5 state championships, 3 state runner-up finishes, and 23 state play-off 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 Nebraksa Shrine Bowl. Jeff and his wife,Lorrie, have 3 children, Lisa, Cali, and Jordan. Jeff is currently Vice-President of the Nebraska Coaches Association.
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 has been the Assistant Principal and AD at Norfolk High School for the past eleven 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 20 years and the NCA for 26 years. He has served as Secretary/Treasurer for NSIAAA, Secretary/Treasurer for NSASSP Region III. 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 Superintendent at Pender Public Schools. Dennis & Peggy have five grandchildren.
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 the Assistant Principal for Activities and Athletics at Millard West High School in Omaha. He is completing his 15th year in the Millard Public Schools, serving in his present role since one year prior to Millard West’s opening as a new high school in the fall of 1995. This is Steve’s 34th year in education, including 10 years as a teacher and coach, and the last 24 as a secondary school administrator. He previously was the Vice Principal/ Activities Director at Bellevue West HS, Principal at Wahoo High School, and Asst. Principal/ Activities Director at Gretna Jr. Sr. HS. He received his CAA designation in 1997 and served as the Secretary/ Treasurer of the NADA/NSIAAA from 1992-2000, then as President Elect, President and Past President of NSIAAA from 2000-2004. He is currently on the NSIAAA Board as historian and sits on the Board of Directors for the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame. Steve is a certified LTC Instructor for the 501, 502, 504, 509, 590 and 505 Courses, being on the NIAAA National Faculty for the 505 Transformational Leadership and Mentoring Course, teaching that course at the NIAAA national conference. He received the NIAAA State Award of Merit in 1998, and was the District II Outstanding Athletic Administrator in 2005. In 2006, Steve was selected at the Nebraska Athletic Director of the Year. He was chair of the Metro Conference Board of Control in 1993-94 and has served on numerous conference and NSAA committees, and as director of numerous tournament events. He is a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University and has graduate degrees from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He was honored with the Nebraska Wesleyan Outstanding Young Alumni Achievement Award in 2001, and inducted into the NWU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. Other honors include: 1995 Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame Silver Anniversary Team; 1998-1999 NSASSP Assistant Principal of the Year, 2004 NSCTA Outstanding Administrator Award.
Larry Munksgaard
Larry Munksgaard is Athletic Director at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, NE. Larry’s tenure at LSE began in 1993. LSE’s athletic program was awarded the Omaha World Herald large school All Sports Champions for 10 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. & M.S. degrees from Iowa State University. Larry previously served 15 years as Associate Principal/Athletic Director at Cedar Falls High School in Cedar Falls, IA. During his tenure in Cedar Falls he 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. In Lincoln, he has organized a student athlete Athletic Club that has given out over $30,000 in scholarships based on service to the school and community. He has been recognized as a state award of merit winner by the Nebraska State Interscholastic Athletic Administrator Association, which he has served as state president and newsletter editor. Larry has been an active member of National Interscholastic Athletic 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 national conferences. He was awarded the NIAAA distinguished service award in December 2002, and the National Federation Citation in 2006. He served as national president in 2006. His focus as national president was to increase membership, redefine our relationship with the National Federation, assist in the eventual move of the national office, and start a national student scholarship program. Membership increased from 5200 to 7000 during his tenure on the board. He helped form the term “grassroots friendly” which led to national staff and board of directors attending many state and sectional conferences. During this period the national federation and NIAAAA became equal partners in sharing expenses and receipts from the national conference. He also formed a committee that established a national scholarship program that annually recognized state, sectional, and national winners. The major focus of application was to write an essay on “How athletics impacted my life”. Larry currently serves on the Hall of Fame committee, which inducts its NIAAA class in 2009.
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. Kathi has been recognized with honors as both a teacher and coach. In 2001 Kathi was named the KFOR-Ralph Beechner Coach of the Year, in 2006 Kathi 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.