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Show Art Hughes is first Utah prep coach selected to hall o? fame I " - ! r , I. i it r - j i- . ! v i ' I . Art Hughes, winningest basketball bas-ketball coach in the state, receives re-ceives highest honors for outstanding out-standing basketball record. Art Hughes, former coach at Springville High School and an SHS graduate, will receive an outstanding honor when he will be installed into the National High School Hall of Fame on June 21 in ceremonies at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Coach Hughes is Utah's winningest prep basketball basket-ball coach. Mr. Hughes, coach of the defending de-fending A champion Hillcrest Huskies, joins six other prep coaches to be honored in the NHSCA's southwest quadrant which includes Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Arkansas, Arkan-sas, Oklahoma and Utah. He graduated from Springville Spring-ville High School in 1930, completed com-pleted college at Brigham Young University and began coaching In Springville High in 1937. He has been in the coaching coach-ing ranks since then except for three years active duty in the Army Air Force. He married mar-ried the late Lucille Henry, also of Springville. He has coached six state champion teams. His won-loss record is 308-110. His record in league warfare is 163-40. The Hughes-coached teams have won 22 league titles in his 28 years of coaching Hughes' fame soared at Jordan Jor-dan High School where he began be-gan coaching in 1949. His teams won straight league titles and annexed 12 of 13 titles before he began his new regime at the new Hillcrest school in 1963. At one time at Jordan his record of wins was 43, including in-cluding tournament action. This is believed to be the longest winning streak in Utah prep history. Another outstanding record is the fact that only five years has he missed playing in the state tournament. Only once in that time has his team been eliminated in two straight losses. los-ses. At Jordan he won the title in 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, and 1962. Hillcrest was second in 1967 and state champs in 1968. Hughes and six other prep coaches will join 14 other U.S. coaches who were Inducted the previous two years of the NHSCA's history. Art Hughes, at 55 years of age, is the first Utah prep coach to win national nation-al hall of fame induction. |