It was the basketball coaches week as Brad Hoyt of John Wood Community College, Marty Bell of Quincy University and Sean Taylor of Quincy High School reviewed their current seasons. Following their talks they took questions from the membership about their seasons and programs. Bob Sheffield of QND will join us at a later date. A big thanks to Ben Marth of WGEM for serving as MC of the program.

 We also had the opportunity to present our Student of the Month award to Mitchell Johannes of Quincy Notre Dame High School. Mitchell is the son of one of our own, John Johannes and his wife Kim. The proud father introduced QND Principal Mark McDowell, but not before scoring points with his wife by saying his son got all his intelligence from his mother. Mitchell will go far in life based simply on his Principal's comments about him as well as his acceptance comments. One could tell he is well on his way to good things in life. Kim and John should be very proud of his accomplishments already.

In a completely filled agenda for our meeting, we also held the first of two installments of the Character Champions awards presentations. Jim Benz explained the background of the awards with these awards dealing with sports activities in the fall of last year. The honorees were all presented a beautiful plaque by Jeff Dorsey.

The winners were:

Dwyer Kelly, a senior from Southeastern High School (Parents: Mark and Lisa Kelly) and Lauren Glick, an 8th grader from Southeastern Jr. High (Parents: Lane and Christy Glick). They were introduced by Todd Fox, Principal and coach at Southeastern High School.

From Central High School, Erin Flesner a senior (Parents: John and Mary Kay Flesner) and Hayden Neisen of Central Jr. High (Parents: Dion and Shelly Neisen). They were introduced by Athletic Director Matt Long.

Representing Quincy Notre Dame High School was Shelby Ulrich a senior (Parents: Randy and Nancy Ulrich. Eric Orne, Assistant Athletic Director at QND handled her introduction.

And from Mendon Unity High School, Alex Blickhan a senior (Parents: Susan and David Blickhan). Athletic Director Christina Meyer presented the introduction.