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CHAMPIONS OF EDUCA TION
CHAMPIONS
of EDUCATION
As a recipient of this year’s annual report,
you are what the IHSAA refers to as a
champion of high school sports. That means
you advocate and support the mission
of education-based athletics. You are
concerned with protecting and preserving
student-athletes’ opportunities to grow
and develop in the second classroom.
Champions of high school sports are
inherently champions of education
and understand that the growth and
development of students are not
possible without the mentorship and
guidance of educators—those of both the
traditional and the second classroom.
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CHAMPIONS OF EDUCA TION
Mike Goebel of Mater Dei High School and beginning of the season to the end is the true
Stephanie Bloom of Yorktown High School
measurement of success,” Goebel said.
teach academics and athletics with that
Bloom also believes there’s much to be learned
purpose in mind. And when discussing
their journeys as educators, one can truly when things don’t go perfectly and emphasizes
the importance of forming good habits.
understand why these two individuals
are champions of both classrooms. More
than that, their personal experiences
provide valuable insight as to what specific “You have to keep in mind that it’s a
process. When I coach, I’m helping create
lessons education-based athletics teach. good habits,” she said. “Not touching a line
Many educators in the second classroom while conditioning might seem very minor,
are also teachers in the traditional Goebel is a State Championship-winning but all the little things matter. Doing the
classroom. Those who are effective in either Football and Wrestling coach. He believes ordinary things in an extraordinary way is
understand that education is a journey that one of the most important life lessons really what’s going to make champions.”
with its purpose being personal growth. student-athletes can learn on the field is
learning how to properly respond to failure. Like Goebel, Bloom is a championship-
winning coach in her sport, Girls
“Coaches fail. And athletes fail. But in the Volleyball. But winning championships
end, you pull them aside and recommend how is never her or her team’s end goal.
they can correct their failure and get back up
and try to go back and do it right,” he said. As the leader of the program, Bloom said,
“I need to keep the end goal in mind and
Coach Mike Goebel of Mater Dei High School in Goebel believes that a successful season communicate it to the team. Our end goal is
Evansville addresses his student-athletes in the is one in which student-athletes learn to be our very best. And our very best isn’t
Lucas Oil Stadium locker room at the Football how to persevere through adversity. always going to be the best. We’re not going to
State Finals. win every time. Even though we lost, did we
“The ability to get back up and continue get better tonight? Did we learn something?”
going and the improvement from the
STEPHANIE BLOOM MIKE GOEBEL
Yorktown High School Mater Dei High School
• Sport(s): Volleyball (2006-Present) • Sport(s): Football (1997-Present),
• School Subject: Algebra 2 (2006-Present) Wrestling (1979-2007)
• High School Attended, Year Graduated: • School Subject: US History and
Yorktown, 2001 Government (1976-Present)
• High School Attended, Year Graduated:
Mater Dei, 1970
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