A coaching family on the bench at B-R
Barr-Reeve has been all success for the last quarter of the century. But it is also about tradition and the Viking family. However, it not just about nostalgia, it’s about moving forward by using the past to build a bridge to the future.
A lot of that bridge comes from the family of coaches that share the bench with coach Heath Howington. The Vikes are the state’s most successful team since Class basketball began in 1997 and Heath Howington is now the third Viking coach to take a Barr-Reeve team to Indianapolis. Howington is the first one to give credit to his players, but also believes that his staff has is a big part of their 27-1 season so far.
Every member of the staff has a deep connection to Viking success. They have basically been a part of Barr-Reeve championship teams as a player or a coach – or both. For Howington, Dean Scott, Kraig Knepp, Brycen Graber and Robert Sullivan have been an integral part of the team success – along with the youth, elementary and junior high staffs which are a huge part of the family for B-R basketball.
“We’re not here without those guys; they all say something a little bit different and bring different experience. Dean Scott is the rock. He’s been here for a long time.
He’s a bridge and he is just the ideal right-hand man that has seen more basketball than I have, and a guy that I can always lean on. He’s such a positive influence,” said Howington. Scott, a former South Knox head coach, arrived just after B-R’s first run to state.