Chance meeting in hospital leads to two Indiana high school coaches teaming up in Iowa
J.R. Howell left Zionsville after six seasons to join former Fishers coach Garrett Winegar as coach at Iowa United Prep
It was April of 2020, the dark days of the pandemic, when Garrett Winegar and J. R. Howell’s lives really intertwined for the first time.
They were both high school basketball coaches then – Winegar at Warren Central and Howell an assistant at Carmel. They were both on the bench in 2018 (Winegar was an assistant) when Warren Central defeated Carmel in the Class 4A state finals. Winegar and Howell crossed paths in the hallway of Ascension St.
Vincent Hospital in Carmel. Their wives, Sable Winegar and Kate Howell, were just two doors down from each other at the hospital, there to give birth to their first-born sons. Winegar and Howell ran into each other in the hallway on the way to the cafeteria.
A friendship, along with Jack Howell and Guyton Winegar, was born. “We’ve been friends ever since,” Howell said. Which leads to six years later.
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