Label
Council Members Ludeman and Sykes
Title
Recognizing & congratulating Head Basketball Coach Ed Heintschel on accomplishing 700 career wins.
Summary
WHEREAS, Ed Heintschel's debut as Head Coach of St. John's Jesuit Basketball in 1979-1980 was not exactly impressive, starting the season 0-8 and finishing at 4-15; and
WHEREAS, the following season, the team through hard work, discipline and coaching managed a near 180 degree transformation into a 17-4 team that won the school's first City League championship; and
WHEREAS, Coach Ed's style of coaching - with an emphasis on stability, consistency, tough love and loyalty provided hundreds of young Titans with the tools to acknowledge mistakes and move on from them, the perspective to recognize that although loss is sometimes difficult, that life goes on, and the skills to manage the entire spectrum of emotions from the heartbreak of losing to the exhilaration of winning a championship, through the ups and downs of each season, Coach's style helped these young men adopt a positive, disciplined resilient approach to life; and
WHEREAS, nineteen of Coach Heintschel's former players have gone on to play Division I college basketball to date, and current Titans Vincent Williams and Houston King are headed to D-I programs. Many more have played at the D-II and D-III college levels, and two former St. John's standouts have reached the NBA - John Amaechi (a 1990 grad) and Brian Roberts (2004); and
WHEREAS, St John's has played tournaments all over the country. Coach Ed recalls that the greatest player they ever played against was our own Jim Jackson from Macomber. William Buford from Libbey was a great player. Coach Heintschel's team just played against Shareef O'Neal (Santa Monica Crossroads), Shaquil O'Neal's son-an outstanding athlete in his own right; and
WHEREAS, now in his 39th season as St. John's Head Coach, Heintschel has become only the fourth coach in Ohio prep hi...
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