1st Freshman to letter in all four varsity sports: Football, Basketball, Track, and Baseball

Football All-Conference (1957, 1958, 1959)

Basketball all-Conference (1958, 1959, 1960)

Baseball All Conference (1959 and 1960)

Set LHS Track Records and EIAC Records in 100, 220, 440, and broad jump.

Sectional Champion in the 440 (1958, 1959, and 1960)

Qualified for State Track Meet in the 440 in 1958 (Placed 5th) and 1959 (Placed 4th)

Played Football and ran Track at Arizona State University

Named 1999 Dearborn County All-Century Team for Football (1999)

HS Football All-American (1959)

FOOTBALL
• TEAM MOST VALUABLE PLAYER, RECEIVING THE NEARY AND SAVAGE TROPHIES.
• RECEIVED FULL SCHOLARSHIP TO ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY.

BASKETBALL
• ALL REGIONAL FIRST TEAM, 1960
• RANKS IN THE TOP TEN OF TIGER BASKETBALL SCORING LEADERS.

BASEBALL
• INVITED TO CINCINNATI REDS TRYOUT CAMP IN THE SUMMER OF 1960, THAT INCLUDED PETE ROSE. REDS OFFERED JIM $3500 TO SIGN, BUT JIM PASSED ON BASEBALL TO PLAY FOOTBALL AT ARIZONA STATE.

TRACK
• SET SCHOOL AND CONFERENCE RECORDS IN THE 100, 200, 440 YARDS DASHES AND THE BROAD JUMP, OR THE LONG JUMP TODAY. THOSE RECORDS WERE THE STANDARD FOR MANY, MANY YEARS HERE AT LAWRENCEBURG.
• SET A REGIONAL RECORD FOR THE 440 IN 1958, WITH A TIME OF 49.6 SECONDS, WHICH STOOD FOR OVER 25 YEARS.

WHILE AT ARIZONA STATE, ALTHOUGH ON A FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP, JIM CONTINUED TO COMPETE IN THREE SPORTS. LETTERING IN FOOTBALL IN 1961 AND ’62, RUNNING TRACK IN THE SPRING OF ’61, AND MAKING THE HIGHLY TOUTED A-S-U BASKETBALL TEAM 1962 AND ’63.

ONCE HIS PLAYING DAYS CAME TO AN END, JIM COMMITTED HIS LIFE TO TEACHING AND COACHING. HIS CAREER HAS SPANNED MORE THAN 50 YEARS HELPING TO MAKE HIS ATHLETES NOT ONLY GOOD PLAYERS ON THE FIELD, BUT GREAT PEOPLE OFF THE FIELD.