CHSCA SPECIAL AWARDS 2018 Assistant Coaches of the Year- The girls award goes to Susie Sheehan-Hodgson of North Park High School. Susie was raised on her family’s ranch in Savery, WY. She was fortunate to benefit from the passing of Title IX and was on one of the first teams to play in Wyoming’s First Class C State Basketball Tournament, winning back to back titles. She moved to North Park in 1985 and was the Director of the North Park Children’s Center for 20 years. In 1990, Susie was hired to be Coach Randy Hodgson’s assistant coach and has coached with Randy for 28 years. “We have coached basketball, volleyball and middle school track together. At times it has been a challenge to find the balance between wife and assistant coach. I always had Coach’s back and he had my loyalty. Although we don’t always agree, we respect each other’s opinions.” Susie says, “My purpose as a girls assistant coach is to help empower young women to be strong and independent.” Together with Coach Hodgson we have shared the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. It is a pleasure and honor to coach with my husband and to be a part of so many young people's lives.” Susie is married to CHSCA HOF Coach Randy Hodgson. She has two children: Melissa and Brett and two step children: Scott and Laura. She has six little boys (River, Diesel, Colin, Talon, Owen and Dually) who call her Granny. Susie continues to work part-time at the North Park School and is an avid reader and a sports fan. This year the boys award goes to Ivory Moore of Columbine High School. Ivory is also the winner of the Dale Yost Teacher- Coach Award and his information is found below. Dale Yost Teacher Coach of the Year Award –The award is given annually to a Colorado Coach who has demonstrated exemplary qualities in the classroom as well as coaching. Ivory Moore is a product of Denver Public Schools, having graduated from Manual High School in 1967. While at Manual Ivory excelled in Football and Track. His athletic success paved the way for him to receive an athletic scholarship in track and football. Ivory received his undergraduate and masters degree from the University of New Mexico. Ivory married his high school sweetheart Gloria and is the proud father of four children and five grand children. Ivory began his high school coaching career in Colorado at West High School in Denver, coaching football and track. That experience led him to teaching and coaching in Jefferson County Public Schools at O'Connell Jr. High and Alameda High School. It was August 1987 that he landed at Ken Caryl Middle School in the Columbine articulation area, while still coaching at Alameda High School. In the spring of 1990 Ivory began coaching track and football at Columbine High School with Dennis Eckley, Frank DeAngelis, Andy Lowry and a number of other award winning coaches. In track he was assistant track coach to Dave Sanders and George Sneddon. In 1994 Ivory began teaching U.S. History in the Social Studies Department at Columbine where he has continued to the present. He was selected Columbine Teacher of the Year in 2001 and Teacher Value Award winner in 2010. In 2004 and 2005 Ivory was named the Jefferson County Track Coach of the year and in 2006 the Jeffco Assistant Coach of the year. Ivory is truly humbled and thankful for being named the Colorado High School Coaches Association 2018 Assistant Coach of the Year as well as the Dale Yost Teacher-Coach of the Year. Coach Moore says, "Creating good relationships with young people will last longer than any of their athletic careers” and also lives by the motto to: Give your best every day and it can be contagious. Media Award- The award is given to an organization (newspaper, radio, or television station) or individual who has significantly supported Colorado high school athletics through the media. Rob Namnoum is the sports director at KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs. He has been working at KRDO for 18 years and has won numerous awards, including an Emmy for Best Sportscaster for Heartland region. He is a multiple time winner of the Associated Press Best Sportscast and multiple time winner of the Colorado Broadcasters Association Best Sportscaster. He played many sports growing up in East Hartford, Connecticut, including baseball, basketball and soccer. Rob has covered sports for twenty years. He has reported on many memorable events like the Broncos playing in Super Bowls 48 and 50, the 2007 Rockies World Series, the Avalanche winning the Stanley Cup in 2001, The Nuggets playing in the Western Conference Finals in 2009, The Frozen Four, the NCAA basketball tournament and The Daytona 500. Namnoum has also covered many high school state championships. The most memorable state championship game he reported on was in 1999, his first year at KRDO, when Columbine reached the state championship game in football, the same year after the Columbine shooting. Rob says he truly has never worked a day in his life because he feels like he has the best job in the world. Rob has a wife, Cassie, and two children, Robbie and Grace. He is also involved in his community. Last year he held a fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, in which he shot free throws at Cheyenne Mountain high school for 24 hours. Away from work, he coaches youth baseball and basketball teams.