Shelbyville High School has a new varsity volleyball coach, boys varsity tennis coaching staff and supplier for its soon-to-be-completed weight room.
On Wednesday at the Shelbyville Central Schools board meeting, Katie Winters was approved as the Golden Bears volleyball coach. She was an assistant coach for Andrew Fuller last season.
Winters played at Logansport High School in Indiana and the University of Northern Colorado. She was a head coach for two years in Colorado and was West Lafayette’s head coach in 2019.
She coaches club volleyball at The Academy in Indianapolis.
Steve Drake returns to the coaching ranks at Shelbyville as the new boys varsity tennis coach. Jacob Shively and Michael Claxton also were approved as Drake’s assistant coaches.
Drake is a former athletic director at Shelbyville High School.
Following the February hiring of Garrett Belden as the new girls varsity soccer coach, the school board approved Max Nugent as assistant soccer coach.
The board also approved middle school coaches for golf, baseball, track and field and eighth grade girls basketball.
Doug Brown was hired as boys and girls golf coach with Chase Yanzer as his assistant coach.
Scott Fitzgerald is the new baseball coach with Will Prine as his assistant coach.
Michael Johnson will lead the boys track and field program with Christopher Lux as assistant coach.
Eli Veach is the new girls track and field head coach with Mirka Ramos and Madison Hankins approved as assistant coaches.
Susan Bass was approved to be the eighth grade girls basketball coach next season.
Pro Industries, located in Franklin, Indiana, was awarded the equipment bid for Shelbyville’s new 8,000-square-foot sports performance facility (photo) that is currently under construction adjacent to J.M. McKeand Stadium on campus.
The weight room equipment will cost $207,864.
“It will be in the upper echelon of Indiana high school weight rooms, especially (for a school) our size,” said Shelbyville High School strength and conditioning coach Royce Carlton in a Shelby County Post article first detailing the proposal.
The new weight room will be four times bigger than the current one used by students and staff.
Originally slated to be completed in March, Carlton believes the facility will be ready by the start of the 2022-2023 school year.
