Reed Peterson coached high school athletics at Mesa High School for 36 years (1949-85).  Peterson was a head coach in five different sports and only had two losing seasons during that entire span.  His football teams were 98-58-2 with two divisional titles and five league crowns.  His JV football teams were 80-7.  Peterson was a top assistant for legendary Mesa coach Mutt Ford for five years.  The Jackrabbits were State Champions three times and runners-up the other two years during that span.  Peterson was also honored as a member of the Mesa Sports Hall of Fame.

Huston T.  Morrison had a coaching career of 37 years--27 in Arizona.  He coached 20 years of football, 16 years of cross-country, and 37 years of track and field.  His cross-country dual meet boy's teams won 139, lost 57, and tied 1.  He had two boy's divisional championships and three girl's divisional championships.  He coached the ACA All Stars in 1976.  When he retired from Alhambra High School (a school he "opened" with in 1962) after 27 years his track teams had won 11 league meet titles, 3 city dual meet titles, and 6 divisional championships.  Morrison's overall record in track was

Gil Corona showed up at Arizona State Teacher's College (now Northern Arizona University) in Flagstaff in 1940.  Coach joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 at the beginning of WW II for the USA.  He was a Tech Sergeant and radioman on a B-26 bomber.  He was shot down on his 25th mission near Rome and the Tiber River in June of 1943.  He spent the next 2 years in German prison camps until he was liberated by General George S.

Jack Spilsbury was inducted into the Arizona Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1987 for a long career of excellence and success.  His 1961 Casa Grande Cougars were the Class 4A State Champions in boys basketball.  Spilbury coached at Casa Grande Union High School fro 1949 to 1970.  His Cougars won five District Championships and 2 State Titles.  Spilsbury finished his career with a record of 242 wins and 242 losses.  Jack was a coach in the ACA All-Star Basketball games in 1958 and 1961.  The gymnasium at Casa Grande High School now bears the Spilsbury name. 

Waldo Dicus was a three major sport coach for Jerome and  Bisbee High Schools back in the 1930's and 1940's.  Coach Dicus' 1947 Bisbee Pumas were the Class 3A State Champions in baseball with a title victory over Tempe Union High School by a score of  2-1.   Warren Stadium, where Bisbee still plays football and baseball, is one of the very oldest continuously played on ball fields in America.   Dicus' 1935 Jerome team was the Northern Conference Champions.  Dicus was back at Bisbee to coach at his alma mater fro 1937 to 1952.  His baseball team was the Southern Conference Champions in 1951.

Coach Ken Troutt was a high school athletic coach for 30 years and was the head basketball coach 27 years.  Troutt led the Globe Tigers from 1952 to 1959 and celebrated the Class A State Basketball Championship in 1956.  Troutt moved on to Phoenix Central and coached there form 1959 to 1983.  Coach Troutt's Central Bobcats won 4 divisional championships.  Coach was named the Divisional Coach of the Year twice.  Troutt was an ACA member from 1951 to 1977.  Coach Troutt's son, Kenneth, was inducted into the AHSACHOF in 2017 marking the first father/son duo to be honored in the same sport. 

Coach Manny Ruiz coached his entire high school career in the mining towns of Superior and San Manuel.  Coach Ruiz' San Manuel Miners were the State Runners-Up to Agua Fria in 1965 by a single basket.  His Superior Panthers were the 1974 State Champions and the 1975 State Runners-Up.  Rex Mirich, was one of his former players and he starred in the National Football League.  Both Ruiz and Mirich were inducted into the San Manuel Athletic Hall of Fame on the same night.  Coach Ruiz finished his career with 333 wins and 240 losses.  He was the Arizona nominee for National Coach of the Year hon