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Show Times Newspaper j Wednesday, May 1, 1996 Page 8 v J I ft It ' Lakridge 8th grade girls team goes 12-0..(Front row, left to right) Shannon Boswell, Kristi Wakefield, Danielle Downey, Marne Millet, Jessica Hardy. (Back row) Terry Peterson, Peter-son, Alan Parrish, Trina Knapp, Stephanie Parrish, Julie Adamson, Angie Benson, Janelle Davis, Ali Parrish, April Atuaia, Emilee Weech to lhin)ir JOEL GARDNER MICHAEL JACOBSEN CARL INGERSOLL '"if $f Hi & -: " : FLOYD MILLET U U UttaGi The Old Time Athletes Association Asso-ciation will honor five Utah coaches at its annual spring banquet ban-quet on Wednesday, May 8, at the Olympus Hotel in Salt Lake City. Recognized by the organization organiza-tion as "Distinguished Utah High School Coaches" will be Joel Gardner (Spanish Fork, Logan, Orem, and Mountain View); Carl Ingersoll (American Fork, Alta, Mountain View High); and Michael Mi-chael Jacobsen (Springville High). "Coaches of Merit" recognitions recogni-tions (combination of high school and college) will go to Doug Allred (Delta High and Dixie College) and Floyd Millet (Davis High and Brigham Young University). "All of these coaches have greatly enriched Utah's athletic history," said Berdean Jarman of Orem, president of the OTAA. "We will enjoy giving a well-deserved tribute to them." Reservations Reserva-tions to attend the , dinner and : program should be made early but no later than Sunday, May 5th. Contact Jarman at 225-3352, or Flash Mikkelson, Provo, at 374-0640. JOEL D.GARDNER Joel D. Gardner became the newest and youngest member of the Gardner clan of seven on a cold January day in Afton, Wyoming. Wyo-ming. The five sisters and two brothers kept baby Joel on the move, which probably helped his quickness in his basketball later on. While attending Star Valley High, Joel lettered in basketball three years, and was named All-State All-State twice. It was his good fortune for-tune to be coached two of those . years by Vera Gardner, who happened hap-pened to be "Uncle Vern". Joel also lettered two years in football and was named All-Region. In 1962, he played starting guard on BYU's freshman team. A two-year mission to Australia interrupted his college career, which he completed in 1968 with a B.S. degree. It was while Joel was at the "Y" that he met Joyce Wright. They married and started their present family of five: three girls - June, Lisa, and Allison, and two boys James and Jeff. Joel's first head coaching job was at Spanish Fork High in basketball bas-ketball with a teaching assignment assign-ment in mathematics. In five years, his teams took region three times. Joel moved to Logan High from 1973 to 1976. His teams were always competitive. An other move to Orem High was very successful. The Tigers made it to state all four years, placing 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th. Joel moved to Mountain View when it opened in 1980. His teams over the next eight years played in the state championships three times, Winning Win-ning it once, and placing fourth and fifth two other years. Gardner Gard-ner had a winning record of 289-165. 289-165. Joel has been very active in school and civic affairs. In 1979-80 1979-80 he was president of the Utah Basketball Coaches Association. In 1981-82 he was named "Coach of the Year" by Stevens-Brown. He served five years as president of the Utah Chapter of the Basketball Bas-ketball Congress International. He has held many positions in both Logan and Alpine School Districts, as well as being on e - .FJ.U acte Orem City's Recreation Commission. Commis-sion. He is presently the athletic director at Mountain View and still teaches mathematics." CARL INGERSOLL Carl G. IngersolPs birth certificate certifi-cate lists his place of birth as Lehi, Utah. Carl says that's because be-cause American Fork didn't have a hospital. For the most part, Utah County has been his home. Carl attended American Fork High School, lettering in baseball and graduating in 1950. The year 1951 saw him playing basketball at Branch Agricultural College (now Southern Utah State University) Uni-versity) in Cedar City. In 1953, Carl decided that Fort Benning, Georgia, had something to offer him, so as a corporal in the 82nd Airborne he had a scholar ship with Uncle Sam for three years. Carl finished his education at BYU in 1959, getting a B.S. in - zoologybotany. About this time, Miss Gene Oborn appeared on the scene. They married and began a series of "J" children that amounted to three boys and four girls - Jeff,: Jan, Jodyy Julie, Jillinda, Jarod, and Jason. In 1960, Carl began coaching at Bingham High (in Copperton) as an assistant. He moved to American Fork as an assistant in football, basketball, and baseball. In 1972, he took over the reins as head basketball coach and his teams took first in region five times and won state twice. They also took second and third in state before Carl moved to Alta in 1979 for only one year. For eight years, Carl was an assistant basketball coach at BYU under Frank Arnold and LaDell Anderson. In 1989, Carl took over the basketball program at Mountain View High School, and decided after the '89 season he would "hang it up". . Carl's nickname was "Rags", as was his father's, who encouraged encour-aged him in coaching. He enjoys watching young kids in athletics and being with his 17 grandchildren. grandchil-dren. MICHAEL V. JACOBSEN Michael V. Jacobsen was born and raised in San Diego, California, Califor-nia, in the middle of World War II ' on March 25, 1943. He is one of four sons of an auto mechanic father fa-ther who watched their achievements achieve-ments as they all graduated from Hoover High in that Southern California sunshine. Mike lettered let-tered in football and track at Hoover and with his high school sweetheart, Alice Pelletier, graduated in 1961. v Chris Apostol recruited young Jacobsen that same year to play for BYU. Mike attended the "Y" four years and in 1966 became head football coach at Springville High, a position he held for 15 years. Alice followed Mike to BYU and a more permanent relationship relation-ship that produced four handsome hand-some and beautiful children one girl, Jill, and three boys Eric, Greg, and Chad. Those 15 years also produced a 91-43 winloss record, playing in the state tournament six times, and placing third three times. A man of many talents, Mike is presently the director of athletics athlet-ics at Utah Valley State College. Some of his other achievements achieve-ments are: Lakeridge girls complete perfect season The Lakeridge 8th grade girk bantam basketball team recently completed a perfect season. They finished the league competition with a 12-0 record and then went undefeated to win the tournament. The league consisted of junior high school teams from Orem, Provo, Pleasant Grove, Lehi, and American Fork. Team members and coaches include: Shannon Boswell, Kristi Kris-ti Wakefield, Danielle Downey, Marne Millet, Jessica Hardy, Terry Peterson, Alan Parrish, Trina Knapp, Stephanie Parrish, Par-rish, Julie Adamson, Angie Benson, Ben-son, Janelle Davis, Ali Parrish, April Atuaia, Emilee Weech. In 1967, he organized the Springville Youth Football Program. Pro-gram. In 1976, he coached the Utah All-Star football game. ' In 1978, he was president of the Utah Football Coaches Association. Asso-ciation. In 1984, he was chairman of Utah County United Way. In 1985-87 he was president of . the Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference, and more recently re-cently he was elected first vice president of the National Association Associa-tion of Two-Year Collegiate Athletic Ath-letic Administrators. FLOYD W.MILLET Floyd W. Millet was born in Mesa, Arizona, one year before Arizona became a state! While attending at-tending Mesa High School, Floyd was on the basketball, baseball, and track teams. His baseball ... team won the Valley Championship Champion-ship in 1929. He Went on to Gila Jr. College in Thatcher, Arizona, which is now the College of Eastern Arizona. Ari-zona. While there, he was on the football team one year, the basketball bas-ketball team two years, and was captain of the track team two years. Floyd transferred to BYU, where, as a football player, he was named second team All-Conference. As a member of the basketball bas-ketball team, he helped win the Western Division Championship three years and the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Conference Championship in 1933 under Coach Ott Romney. That spring, he set an AAU record in the broad jump (now the long jump), and participated in the National AAU Track and Field Meet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he took third behind first placer Jesse Owens. Floyd began his coaching at Davis High School as head football, foot-ball, basketball, and baseball coach. In the three years he was there, his Darts took home the state basketball championship in 1936. He started his football, basketball, bas-ketball, and track "wars" as head coach at BYU just before World War II. At the same time, Floyd and his wife, the former Vera Jackson, spent four summers at the University of Southern California Cali-fornia working on his master's. Those California summers started their family of four three boys, F. Jackson, Michael, and Robert, and baby sister, Colleen Col-leen Hanks. Floyd coached football for 12 years. The most memorable year was 1942, when the Cougars beat the Utes for the first time. His varsity basketball teams, always competitive, won the conference championship in 1948, and his track teams dominated this side of the Rockies for 11 years. ' Floyd "slowed down" when he became athletic director, a posi- tion he held for ten years. Other noteworthy achievements include: in-clude: chairman of the Mountain States Athletic Directors Conference, Confer-ence, chairman of the All-Church Athletic Committee for five years, and directing the physical training train-ing program for the U.S. Army Corps cadets at the "Y" during World War II. 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