Coach of Inspiration 2007 Awards
The 3rd Annual Coaches of Inspiration Awards provided some great twists this year. Aside from the usual nominations for youth sports coaches, we also received many nominations for coaches who are either retired or, in a couple cases, no longer living! So the COI Committee decided to create a “Legends” award this year.

Nearly 200 people attended the awards night on January 23rd at the Wenatchee Convention Center. In all, 37 coaches were nominated and 34 received awards. The awards are as follows:

Soccer
Dwayne Birmingham
Don Carroll
Carolyne Dotter
Edwin Eaton
Brett Johnson
Vicki Lenicka
Kevin Overbay
Mark Osborn
Eric Slife
Matt Tilger
Kristin Ward
Dan Waterhouse
Mary Zontek

Softball
Eric Granstrom
Kevin Overbay
Darold Schall

Baseball
Dan Bass
Charlie Brown
Nick Harris

Basketball
Ken Boyle
Todd Fabian
Bryan Worley

Football
Lee Gale
Tom Nees
Rod Thomas
Mickey White

Volleyball
Vern Neel

Swimming
Darcy Bruggman
James Elwyn

Figure Skating
Louise Kapeikis

Exceptional Coaching Awards

Basketball
Greg Jones

Soccer
Mike Grimm

Swimming
Bob Hill

Legendary Coaching Awards

Lee Bofto – Football & Wrestling at Wenatchee High School
Paul Preston – Football at Wenatchee High School and the Wenatchee Valley Rams
Rex Scott – Basketball at Cashmere High School

If you have pictures of this year's Coaches of Inspiration that you'd like to share, email them to sports@wenatcheevalley.org.