Team captain of the 1972 football Blueboys and won MVP honors that season for his play on defense. He earned four varsity letters on the gridiron and garnered All-Prairie Conference honors in 1970, 1971 and 1972. The Jacksonville native coached football and basketball at Bluffs High School and was an assistant football coach at Triopia High School before later serving as head coach of the boys’ basketball teams at Triopia (1983-85) and Routt Catholic (1993-98). He was an assistant football coach for the Blueboys from 1986-94.