Sports 5 May 2020

Farewell, coach

Even with a couple of days to digest the news, the words came hard to Nate Steege as he talked about “coach.”
Then again, Steve Staker touched a lot of lives in his long teaching and coaching career at both Fredericksburg High School and Coe College. Just ask Steege, a 1998 graduate of Fredericksburg High School and a successful boys basketball coach in his own right at Waverly-Shell Rock.
“I looked up to him … it’s because of coach that this is what I wanted to do,” Steege said last week after Staker lost a short but courageous battle with cancer, passing away at the age of 76 on Tuesday. “He inspired me to be a coach and teach, and honestly, I modeled my life after him. Kids who grew up in Fredericksburg had some really good ones, and coach Staker was right up there.”
For more on this story see the May 5 Tribune.

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