Sunday, September 02, 2001
High School Insider
Mom instills Bacon tradition with pair of sons
Caryl Schawe used to take her infant son to Roger Bacon volleyball practices. Today, the son starts for Bacon's football team while Mom continues her stellar coaching career.
Caryl, who was inducted into the Roger Bacon Women's Hall of Fame earlier this year, returns every player from her Division II state runner-up volleyball team. This year's team is No. 1 in The Enquirer's Division II-IV area poll.
Caryl's son, Brandon, a senior, is the starting center on a Bacon football team ranked No. 5 in The Enquirer's Division II-VI poll.
“When Brandon was three months old, we had a baby bed set up for him in a room just off the gym,” Caryl said. “I would coach and he would take his naps in there.”
Today, Brandon rides to school daily with his Mom and brother Brian, a Roger Bacon sophomore. Brian plays for a Bacon soccer team ranked No. 5 in The Enquirer's Division II-III poll.
Brandon got the first taste of Mom's volleyball coaching schedule. Caryl started coaching at Our Lady of Angels in 1979 and moved to Bacon in 1984 when the school became co-ed.
“This has been Brandon's way of life,” Caryl said. “He always wanted to be a Spartan. It's become a part of all my children's lives.”
Another future Spartan is Caryl's daughter Katelyn, 11. The kids and Caryl's husband, Bill, attend Mom's volleyball games when schedules permit. And the boys attend each other's games when they can.
Caryl's resume includes three state runner-up finishes (1982, 1999, 2000), six league titles in the GGCL, and six Coach of the Year awards.
“She's a great coach,” said Dan Starkey, Bacon's head football coach. “She's in our Hall of Fame already, which is very unusual for an active coach. That tells you something about how good she is.”
GOOD SPORTS: Six local high schools were recipients of the OHSAA's 2000-01 Harold A. Meyer Award for Sportsmanship, Ethics and Integrity. Winners were Anderson, Glen Este, La Salle, Loveland, Norwood and Reading. The winners — there were 60 statewide — are required to complete an eight-part program showing they are promoting those values.
RATINGS WATCH: The first OHSAA football computer ratings will be released after the fourth week of the season on Tuesday, Sept. 18.
The first Associated Press statewide football poll will be released after the third week of the season, on Sept. 11.
MILLER HONORED: Campbell County (Ky.) named its football field after former coach Bob Miller during halftime of its game vs. Highlands on Friday night.
Miller, a charter member of the Northern Kentucky High School Athletic Directors Hall of Fame, coached Campbell County from 1963-79.
BASKETBALL OFFICIALS: The Ohio High School Basketball Officials Association will hold a class for prospective officials Sept. 24 at Hamilton County Educational Service Center, 11083 Hamilton Ave. For information call Frank Luhn at 513-965-5032 or 703-3896.
Another local organization, the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Officials Association, will conduct a class at Princeton High School starting Sept. 26. For infor mation call Jim O'Connor (821-3208) or Steve Eha (871-2822).
FINNEYTOWN SOCCER: Karl Novak, a member of Finneytown's 1976-77 state championship soccer team, and his family have created a $5,000 scholarship to be awarded next spring to graduating seniors from the school's boys and girls soccer teams.
COACHES NEEDED: Purcell Marian needs a head gymnastics coach and head swimming coach. Send resume to AD Terry Meinking at the school, 2935 Hackberry St., Cincinnati, 45206.
Contact Tom Groeschen at 768-8450; fax: 768-8550; e-mail: tgroeschen@enquirer.com.
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