From the Southern Illinois Miners
MARION, IL – The Southern Illinois Miners announce that former McLeansboro/Hamilton County High School boys basketball coach Curt Reed and former Nashville Community High School girls basketball head coach Wayne Harre into the Southern Illinois High School Coaches Hall of Fame on Tuesday, August 29th, in an on-field, pregame ceremony before the Miners face the Gateway Grizzlies at 7:05 p.m.
Curt Reed began a long and storied tenure at McLeansboro/Hamilton County High School in 1985, and over the course of 26 years as the Foxes’ varsity head coach amassed a record of 488 wins and 297 losses, including nine regional championships and two sectional titles. In 1990-91, his squad went 25-11 and went on to finish third in the Class A Illinois state tournament. Under his leadership, the Foxes won 20 or more games 12 times, and twice finished with 28 wins in 1991-92 and 1996-97.
In addition to his time with the varsity, Reed also coached the junior high and junior varsity teams at McLeansboro/Hamilton County, ending his storied coaching career in 2011 with an overall record of 800 wins and 457 losses. A graduate of McLeansboro High School in 1960, he later attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale as well as McKendree University, and was inducted into the McKendree College Hall Of Fame in 2003 and the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2000. He also received the IBCA’s District 20 Coach of the Year award twice, in 1991 and 2009.
Wayne Harre coached the girls basketball program at Nashville Community High School for 15 years and had an incredible run of success from 2000-2015. His Hornettes teams won a regional title every season that he was at the helm, along with eight sectional and super-sectional championships while making eight trips to the state tournament as well, winning the Class 2A state championship in 2012-13 with a record of 33-2. Having also finished in the top four at the state four times. Harre’s record at NCHS was an incredible 412 wins and just 77 losses for a win percentage of .843. None of his Hornettes teams lost more than nine games, with seven dropping four or fewer games.
Harre also was an assistant coach for the softball (1999-2015) and volleyball (2009-15) teams at NCHS, and was recently named the new head coach of the Hornets boys’ basketball program beginning this winter.
Tickets for Tuesday night’s game can be purchased online at southernillinoisminers.com, over the phone at (618) 998-8499 or at the Rent One Park box office.
The Southern Illinois Miners are the 2016 Frontier League West Division Champions, the 2014 and 2015 Frontier League East Division Champions and the 2012 Frontier League Champions. They have been awarded the Frontier League Organization of the Year award three times since their inception, and also set a new Frontier League attendance record in 2007, their inaugural season. For ticket information, contact the Rent One Park box office at (618) 998-8499. For any additional information, visit our website at www.southernillinoisminers.com.
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