(12-10-16) Today during the Spencerville-Coldwater girls basketball game it was Alumni Day. Three past Cavalier teams were honored, the first (1981) team to win the MAC, the first (1992) State Championship team and the first ever team to play in 1976.
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1976
Thanks to the Title IX being enacted high school sports across the country would take a BIG step in having girls varsity level competitive teams. 1976 would see girls high school basketball start in Ohio and Coldwater would field its very first team. That first season the Cavalier girls, with Head Coach Vickie Reitz, would play just eight games and end the season with a 2-6 record.
Coldwater lost it’s first ever game to Parkway 34-17, but would come back in game two to pick up the program’s first ever program win over Marion Local 42-15. The Cavs other win that season was over Bradford 33-31.
The first four seasons would see four different coaches run the program, in 1977 Coach (?) Ontrop would lead the Cavs to their first ever winning season going 10-4, in 1978 Karen Noll would take over and lead the team to a 3-10 year.
The fourth coach to take over the program in 1979 (9-9) was some guy named ‘Charlie Maier’. That turned out to be the best move in the 40 year history of Coldwater girls basketabll as Maier’s Hall of Fame career speaks for it’s self.
1976 Results 2-6
Parkway 34 Coldwater 17 Coldwater 42 Marion Local 15 Ansonia 32 Coldwater 29 New Bremen 30 Coldwater 17 Ft. Recovery 33 Coldwater 22 Coldwater 33 Bradford 31 Minster 81 Coldwater 38 Bath 77 Coldwater 21
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