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Which varsity coach has the most all-time sports wins in Bureau County? Here’s a look! · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Which varsity coach has the most all time sports wins
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  Speaker 1: in Bureau County. Here's a look, written by Kevin Hieronimus.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. There have been many legendary coaches
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  Speaker 1: over the decades on the sidelines for Bureau County varsity
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  Speaker 1: sports teams. Topping the list is former longtime Saint Bede
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  Speaker 1: coach John Bellino, who racked up eight hundred and one
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  Speaker 1: wins between the baseball six hundred and thirty one and
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  Speaker 1: football one hundred and seventy fields from nineteen eighty to
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. Legendary Tuskilwa basketball coach Bob Prusidor comes in
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  Speaker 1: second with five hundred and eighty four wins in basketball
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  Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty one and football fifty three from
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight to eighty six. Longtime Princeton cross country
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  Speaker 1: coach Pat Hodge has five hundred and thirty seven wins
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  Speaker 1: since starting in nineteen eighty seven. This does not count
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  Speaker 1: track records, which are not available. Andy Puck retired after
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  Speaker 1: twenty four years as Princeton volleyball coach last fall with
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  Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty four wins, including one year at
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  Speaker 1: Hall at number four. John Garvin, who started up the
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  Speaker 1: Taskillwell volleyball and Princeton boys' soccer program, as well as
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  Speaker 1: coaching girls basketball at Princeton, stands at number five at
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  Speaker 1: five hundred fourteen. Rounding out the top ten are Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame coaches Rita Plasek with Princeton volleyball at four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety three, Gary Vessini of Hall, who compiled
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  Speaker 1: four seventy four wins in football, baseball, and softball, and
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  Speaker 1: Eric Bryant, who recorded four sixty nine wins between Hall
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  Speaker 1: and De Pew basketball. Along with Hall baseball coach Tom
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  Speaker 1: Keegan at four forty four and former Saint Fete girls
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  Speaker 1: basketball coach Tom mcgunnigal at four thirty four. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: rundown of Bureau County's top twenty five winningest varsity sports coaches.
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  Speaker 1: There are limited records available for track, golf, and cross country.