Editor's Note: Editor's Note: The Sentinel is taking a look at some of the top high school coaches in the area since 2000. It is not a ranking, but a look at some of the coaching success in the area.

Even winning competitions and being a potential Division I athlete can’t satisfy St. John Villa’s Fridaws Sammy. “I can always do better,” Sammy said. “I don’t care about competing with others. I’m ...

During the day she’s a second-grade teacher at Almond Grove in Oakley, but when the school bell rings, Janice Chrobak is off to Freedom High School to teach athletes how to throw a shot put and discus ...

Rusty Smith finally became tired of watching steel discs and orbs fly through the air. Smith, known mostly as the track and field throwing coach at South Point High School, retired after 45 years.