John Raffensperger
Age: 69. City High coaching legend, author, came to Iowa City in 1948 to teach social studies for 36 years while coaching football, basketball, baseball, golf, swimming and track. A football and track athlete as a student at University of Northern Iowa, it was in the track and field program that he had his greatest impact on local youth, including 10 state track titles, the only coach ever to achieve that mark, earning him a place in the Iowa Track Coaches Hall of Fame. Highlighting “chief statistician” wife Sharon’s data, he authored a 2005 “History of City High Athletics.”