Suiting Up Varsity: Nebraska High School Sports History

Suiting Up Varsity: Nebraska High School Sports History uses Webster County GOATs to rank the county's best athletes and teams across schools that mostly no longer exist.

Suiting Up Varsity examines the athletic histories of Blaine and Thomas counties, whose combined population was about 2,400 in 1950 and has since fallen below half that figure.

Six absentee ballots and a 55% bond threshold nearly decided whether West Holt could build a new high school in Holt County, Nebraska.

Nebraska's sand greens golf championship began in 1941 after the Nebraska High School Athletic Association split the state meet into separate sand and grass events, with Kearney Country Club hosting the first sand tournament and nine schools choosing that route.

["Greg Mays frames Lincoln High and Scotts Bluff as a 400-mile Nebraska rivalry that met 39 times and may have started with a 1937 split state title.", "He recounts the 1939 opener on Lincoln High's dirt Oval, where 6,000 fans saw the Lynx beat the Bearcats 22-6 after Scotts Bluff arrived by train three hours before kickoff.", "The episode follows later turns including the 1945 7-7 tie, Scotts Bluff's first win in 1953, the 1968 renewal at Bearcat Stadium, and the 1976 Class A volleyball final at Western Nebraska College.", "Mays ends by arguing for a 2022 revival of the series and promoting the Nebraska High School Hall of Fame, SuitingUpVarsity.org, and the show's Patreon."]

Suiting Up Varsity examines non-traditional Nebraska high schools whose special missions shaped their athletic histories, including Shadron Pine Ridge Job Corps, West Kearney, and Omaha Heartland.

Suiting Up Varsity examines the greatest athletes and athletic moments from eight Howard County schools, including Farwell's Howard Waltman, Elba's Grover Cleveland Alexander and Randy Rasmussen, and St.

Suiting Up Varsity examines why Nebraska waited until 1975 to establish statewide high school football playoffs, despite newspaper advocacy dating to the 1940s.

Suiting Up Varsity examines how Nebraska's 1967 statehood centennial shaped the names of Centennial High School, Centura, and the Nebraska Centennial Conference.

Greg Mays assembles three Nebraska high school sports stories from 1941 and 1942, including North Platte’s polio-disrupted football season, a six-team basketball district with second chances, and a disputed Winnebago timeout.

Suiting Up Varsity examines the greatest athletes from Osceola, Shelby, Stromsburg, Polk, and later consolidated schools in Polk County, Nebraska.

Suiting Up Varsity examines the greatest athletes from Furnas County schools, covering six closed high schools and three current districts.

Suiting Up Varsity reconstructs Omaha Burke’s rise from Beveridge Junior Senior High School to the 1974 Metro Conference championship.

Suiting Up Varsity: Nebraska High School Sports History examines Knox County’s open and closed high schools while selecting their greatest athletes.

Greg Mays examines Bushnell, Dix, and Kimball while selecting the greatest athletes in Kimball County high school sports history.

Suiting Up Varsity: Nebraska High School Sports History examines seven Nemaha County schools, including Nemaha High’s 1943 football tie with Table Rock and Auburn’s later championship teams.

Suiting Up Varsity: Nebraska High School Sports History examines Dixon County’s athletic record across 10 high schools, including state tournaments, championships, and consolidations.

Suiting Up Varsity examines how Nebraska high school soccer developed before the NSAA sanctioned its first state tournaments on May 18, 1988.

Suiting Up Varsity examines the greatest athletes from Sioux County and Dundy County, including Harrison’s 1976 Class D wrestling championship.

Suiting Up Varsity examines proposed greatest-of-all-time athletes from Richardson County, Nebraska, while acknowledging gaps in girls’ and historical sports data.

Suiting Up Varsity examines Nebraska girls sports in 1982, beginning with Karen Moore's 73-foot shot for Lincoln Northeast against undefeated Kearney in the Class A basketball final.

Suiting Up Varsity examines the aftermath of Omaha Tech's 1926 state basketball championship and the March 28 announcement that five Omaha public high schools would skip the 1927 tournament.

Suiting Up Varsity reconstructs Nebraska’s 1926 state basketball tournament, staged at the new University of Nebraska Fieldhouse with 339 teams, 22 classes, and more than 7,000 fans.

Suiting Up Varsity examines the Fremont-Norfolk football rivalry through a 1986 Norfolk yearbook claim that the Panthers had not beaten Fremont since 1944.

This episode explores the 1946 Nebraska state track meet, focusing on the new qualifying system and the athletes' experience of sleeping under Memorial Stadium.

A time-traveling exploration of Nebraska high school sports history, focusing on the 1945-46 winter season and a basketball matchup between Lincoln High and Scottsbluff.

A deep dive into a 1979 Nebraska high school football playoff game between Lincoln Southeast and Fremont.