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Show ..UIW"-- ' SECTION AUGUST 3. 1983 Make A Differ ence r chance to talk to a lumme J it up bft, 1 M of other cwwhei wives and they uy the whole weekend depend on whether the team w ins or Truthfully, w cvc ne er had that arc pretty much the problem. Our weckcnJ same w hether w e w in or loe. 1 belie c in w hat Brent tells the kids, that each game might be of the world, played like it (he championship the of end world." the but certainly not Hancock says the youth in him smfaccs about this time cveiy summer BRENT commented. "Lavting in this sport has a lot to do whether your family can lat. Luckily mine has. "Youve got to be able to bounce back. By KEITH DUNCAN A SURVIVOR and so is Diane by Journal Scorn - KAYSVILLE Hurry Burchett. qualified in hiv 0 n respect to talk authoritatively about northern Utah high school athletics, spoke recently without any hesitation amt said. Two of the finest prep coaches in the state of Utah are Brent Hancock and Tom BuJgc. I SAY that because these men have a knowledge of the game of football and are just plain class people. "Theres quite a bit to the profession they've chosen and many have gone on to become quite successful. But there's a difference between being successful and (romping over people. Brent and Tom have always been concerned about their kids, both in what they're doing in class as w ell as w hat they've done on the field." ONE PERSON who had a lot to do with making Hancocks youth happy, was his own father, Parley. Having been a basketball and baseball official in the area for 30 years. Parley had something to do w ith setting a foundation in athletics for his son. It was Parley who coached Brents little league baseball team for several years, including the seasons when Kenny Hunt was a member. One summer the squad w ent 534) thanks to the efforts of players like Hunt who later went on to pitch for the Cincinnati Reds in the World Scries. Hunt now heads the bascketball program at Morgan High. BURCIIELL, who has been in and around prep athletics for three decades and is now the athletic director at Bonneville High, spoke of 'class people. That's exactly how Clearfield High's Hancock liked to talk about the literal hundreds of associations he has gained since early in his childhood w hen sports began shaping his life. "People are where it is at," said Hancock who is entering his seventh season as the head , coach of the Falcon's program. "The friends 1 had during the good 'ole days at Ogden High are still my closest friends today. It's like I tell my players today, 'it's your teammates today, the guys who make the commitments like you do and w ho pay the price, it's those guys that youd want to go to war with. IIOW COULD After 29 years of either coaching or playing football, Coach Brent Hancock says. . . greatest fans and suffer more after losses than I do. I can't recall a game theyve ever missed. "You cant go too far in this business before ll you meet class administrators like Harry and our own Lawrence Cook at Clearfield High. Bur-chc- "SPORTS arent everything, but there aren't many places in the world a person could ever forget my old I coaches. Guys like Wally Naulder and all the rest. I still use some of the drills and terminology that I picked up from them. "My fellow colleagues in the business are unselfish and are some of the finest people in society. You cant go to a clinic where another fellow coach isn't afraid to share some ideas. We all know there arent any secrets to the actual game of football. "OF COURSE the kids are what make this profession class. Coming out each year makes the youth in me surface. Of course its been purposeful to help mold the lives of kids and see them achieve. Some of the kids Ive once coached now tee it up against me, people like Rod Bockwoldt, Brad Hawkins, John Edwards, Bruce Burningham and others. But after weve locked horns for a while, the friendship has only increased. "Its getting to know and appreciate the guys who assist you like Ken Hicks, John Flint. Craig Hansen, Craig Murray and all the rest that helped. A coach is only as good as his assistants and I'll be the first to admit that. "WHAT WOULD this profession be without true fans and friends like my wifes parents. Bob and Pearl Clay. Diane says theyre my . . go to make as many lasting and meaningful relationships as you can in athletics. Making friends over the years has been a plus but Hancock has also mounted up some success in coaching football. The Ogden native who grew up near Monroe Park, has been either coaching or playing football since the eighth grade in 1954. During the span as a head coach, Hancock has compiled an impressive mark of 87 victories and 45 defeats. Even though the record stands at 27-- 3 1 in six years at Clearfield, Hancock says, Well get it back to .500 by the end of this year. HANCOCK has mentored on nearly every level of coaching, all the way from a junior high school coach to Wahlquist to an assistant coach on the college level at Weber State. In between that he spent some very memorable seasons at Bonneville High before leaving in 75 to help assist Dick Gwinn at Weber State. Through it all, Hancocks brightest moments have come when his kids have made a commitment and paid the price. With that key ingredient and a couple more, Hancock has helped to lead numerous clubs to state playoff berths. A COACH is only as good as his athletes, LdDeil track and field stars qualified in recent weeks to compete at the prestigious National Junior Olympics in Four Clearfield High Durham, North Carolina. - THREE OF those performers arrived home from the national competition some time Monday of this week while the third, Craig Carter, decided to skip the competition because of in football. summer Laura Zaugg, wholl be a senior this fall at Clearfield, qualified at the regionals held in Provo in the hurdles, 200 meters and 400 meters. went RICKY SMITH, another senior-to-bto the nationals after qualifying in the 400 meters with a 50.6 clocking. His mile relay team also qualified but that entry was scraped after the other three decided not to attend the nationals. Stephanie Clements was the third athlete to attend the summer event after qualifying in the 400 meters where she took second in that event behind a gal from Colorado. Stephanie will be a junior at Clearfield this year. e, CARTER WAS the fourth local athlete to attend the qualify, but he gave up the chance to i sit-tin- g in the stands and hearing some of the things that have been stated years past. Even in the year wc went 94) at Bonneville, it was probably worse than it ever been. "There is no way you can make everyone happy in this business. A coach who believes he can. is either dreaming in a fantasy worlJ or lying. Ita impossible." . . . "its about this time every summer that the youth in me starts to surface. I'm still having fun at this thing and I hope the day I quit having fun is the day I'm smart enough to get out." said Hancock, "To have many in high school it is going to fiuxuate, you can never really tell. "Take a guy like Dave Burke for example. Look at the things he did for Layton's program for three years. I had a lot of respect for him because I could see having a kid like that around was an attraction that had other kids rallying around him. The more athletes you have, the further youll go. "IN REVIEWING last season, the only two games we were out of, were our first and last. Viewmont had some athletes, and though we didnt play well, we were beaten pretty bad. Of course Alta had some superior athletes and really took it to us. "It boils down to good athletes and a minimal amount of injuries. I'm optimistic about this year but a coach is always hoping that some real athletes will pull through and injuries escape your ranks. IN REFERRING to luck, Hancock said, you make your own luck in athletics by work ing hard. Luck is only w hen drawn from a fish bowl." your name gets As far as future innovations, Hancock's only immediate scheme as a head coach is "to do the best I can at Clearfield High. He loves competition within Davis County, enough in fact that next year the Falcons will be playing every county school in the same year. "When I was playing at Ogden, it was always a thrill to come to Davis or Bountiful to play under the lights. Now we all have lights and the county has a special air about it when Friday night football arrives. I think a lot of people can feel it, he said. THE LONGEVITY in the coaching profession is something Hancock, as well as his family, have mastered. Theres been some awfully good times in past years and awfully distasteful ones too. Diane Hancock, the mother of the family Aside from football, Brent.had enough influence on me to help build a lot of character. ..Hes such a class, quality type person which youve got to be. is just what BRENT LATER went on to play football at Lewis Junior, then Ogden High, two years with Weber Junior College, a one-yestay at BYU and one more year at Weber State College. tailback in Hancock, who was a single-win- g high school, got the chance to play quarterback in college and today is respected for his knowledge in that area. Hancock later got the chance to coach QBs and wide receivers at Weber State. Bockwoldt, Hawkins and Burningham are but a few of the offensive players he had a chance to coach as a Wildcat mentor. ar BOCKWOLDT, wholl be leading Weber High this fall which happens to be in the Clearfields region, stated, Tve adopted much of my philosophy of the passing game from Brent. "But aside from football, Brent had enough influence on me to help built a lot of character. Hes one reason I decided to go into education and coaching. Hopefully I can portray that same kind of person as a high school coach. Hes such a class, quality type person which is just what youve got to be. BURCHELL, who spent some choice seasons with Brent at Bonneville, stated again, If there were a couple of words to sum up Brent Hancock, itd have to be undivided dedication to the sport and his family. Football, as well as many of the sports, have been a way of life for this man. He admits that he replaced school for sports in high school which haunted him later, but because of athletics he made it through college and got to see parts of the world hes never seen since. The .1960 trip to Hawaii with the BYU team has been an only once thing. AND AFTER 29 years of it, Hancock says still having fun. When it isnt fun hes Rod Bockwoldt any- more, I hope Im smart enough to realize it. But for now, the association with young kids is bringing the kid out in me, he said. fmekstm Ty E&timmk nationals because he wanted to get an early start in football. Carter will be playing for the Clearfield Falcons this fall. Craig, wholl be a sophomore at Clearfield, won the regionals at Provo in both the shot put and the discus. He won the shot with a toss of 48-- 1 and the discus with a throw of 141-To attend the national competition in North Carolina, an athlete had to place among the top two in each event at their respective regional competitions. BYU was the site of one regional battle. 0. FOR THE past couple of years at Clearfield, Laura Zaugg has bounced from a number of events in track competition, making her one of the most versatile members of the team. Through her sophomore and junior years, shes had the chance to compete in all the short and long distance races and several field events. AH that experience paid off this past spring when at the BYU Invitational, she capand tured the hepthalon among girls. 4-- A 3-- A Zaugg will probably get a pretty good idea what she will want to specialize in her senior year after this summers competition, this according to her high school coach, Roger Buhrley. Im impressed with Lauras exceH- - t ence in the hurdles where she is posting times this summer that would have beaten everyone last spring except for Susan DeVries, said Buhrley. THE ONLY event that the talented Clements ran in the Provo regionals was the 400 meters, but thats her speciality. Stephanie was the number one quartermiler at Clearfield last year, setting a new school record in that event. She eventually took second in state in the 400 meters, but came back later in that meet to help the Clearfield girls mile relay team capture the state championship. It was very much her effort in that anchor run that helped the Clearfield girls to a new state record in that event. Ricky Smith had a very respectable run in the 400 meters at the regionals, even when you consider he probably still wasnt in top shape for the competition. Smith was one of the big reasons why the Falcons had so much success last spring in taking their fourth straight region crown and finishing third in the state meet. He was found running the 400, 200 and 100 all spring. CARTER LOOKED very impressive in capturing the shot and discus at the regionals in Provo and even before that in taking first in the ' state in the shot and second in the discus. Carters longest throw with a shot (which is the weight that high schools use) has been 52-- 4 which took place at an indoor meet at Utah State last winter. He entered that competition as an unattached member since he was still in junior higlT. ALL FOUR of these athletes entered the state and regional junior Olympic competition as members of the Bountiful Youth Track Club. Flint Named To All -Rockie Team BOUNTIFUL - High school football is just wasnt long ago that Kyle Morrell was getting ready to play for around the comer and it Viewmont and Brandon Flint getting geared up for another season as a on Lancer. WELL TIME has come and gone since those prep days but the honors have been coming in for these two since their prep days. Both of them are now getting ready for the upcoming season for the BYU football team. In reading through all the national publications for the college football scene one can always read the names of these two great of the BYU team. athletes in the write-up- s GOAL POST, on? of the biggest national publications, came out with their pre-seas- 4 and then what they call their teams. These sectional selections are six different teams from the various parts, or sections, or the country. The area that covers Utah is called the team and you guessed it both Kyle Morrell and Brandon Flint are on the first team. Thats a great honor for both of them. This team takes in five states. Brandon is due for some more honors and recognition this season. He s a senior at BYU, while its a great stepping stone to bigger and better things for Kyle who is entering his junior year at BYU. ie THE COACHES at BYU believe both Brandon and Kyle are professional material and feel both of them wiU be drafted when the proper time comes. I |