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Blast Of The Sporty Past
Feature March 30, 2015 Comments Off on Blast Of The Sporty Pastby Emily Krabill
Do you know how, when and why GHS sports were first started? Are you looking for a way to show more school pride? Want to learn something new about GHS?
Larry Kissinger, Athletic Director discusses the roots of GHS Athletics.
picture taken by Emily Krabill
“Our records begin in the early 1900s for Football,” says Kissinger.
In the 1900s there were no athletic fields at all, no football fields, baseball fields, and not even a gymnasium. Now, sports are such a big element at GHS that playing a sport can earn a student a Physical Education credit.
However, once the 1920s hit, athletics would start to grow at GHS. The first sport to be created at GHS was football, followed by basketball and then baseball. It is unknown when Men’s Track and Field was added to the mix.
According to GHS school records, the first gymnasium created for GHS Athletics is located at the old Goshen High School on Jefferson street. This location served as Goshen High School from 1904 to 1923. The school then moved to Lincolnway, and still remains as the school today.
In 1964, Goshen High School joined the Northern Lakes Conference which is the same conference GHS participates in today.
According to Kelsey West, athletic department assistant, Northern Lakes Conference is a conference that Goshen is in for all of their sports. “There are 8 different schools in the conference,” West said. The schools involved in the conference besides Goshen are Concord, Elkhart Memorial, Plymouth, Wawasee, Warsaw, Northridge, and Northwood.
“Women’s Volleyball goes back to 1972. It became a sanctioned high school sport in 1977, when Title 9 was passed, and still has a lot of clout today,” says Kissinger “Title 9 says ‘Girls can play a boy’s sport if there’s no similar sport, such as football or wrestling.’”
Because of Title 9, all GHS Girl’s Athletics would have formed in 1977 or later.
Athletic Secretary Jan Schrock says that today the Athletic Department pushes students to participate in multiple sports. However, this can be tricky, considering how much work is put into each individual sport. “It’s pretty much an all year work-out for each sport,” says Shrock.
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