(Hawarden) Atlantic graduate Jerome Hoegh has been on the coaching staff for two state football championships with West Sioux and his Falcon basketball team spent a good portion of the 2019-20 season as the #1 ranked team in Class 2A. They entered postseason play at 19-2 and are currently ranked 5th. West Sioux averages more than 80 points per game and they have topped 100 on three different occasions this season.
Hoegh was a standout in football and basketball for Atlantic. After his high school graduation in 2006 he followed the family tradition of competing at Northwestern College in Orange city. He appeared to be on his way to becoming a farmer until he got a call from a college professor letting him know about the opening at West Sioux. “I was done applying. That’s what my mindset was. I wanted to farm. I loved farming and being around my dad and brothers. I was thinking it was fine that I had no interviews, but I got that call and now ten years later here I am and it’s crazy how little things can change your life. I feel extremely blessed.”
While West Sioux football and basketball have been among the best programs in the state in recent years, he especially loves coaching track. “Honestly my favorite thing to coach is middle school track. I get to teach these kids that maybe have not played any sport. I get them all out by basically bribing or forcing them to go out for track because I see them in middle school science. I get to watch them go through hard practices, compete against each other and themselves, and they get to see their times go down.”
Previous Coaches
Eric Maasen, (AHST grad) Sheldon
Gaylord Schelling, Atlantic and Tri-Center
Eric Stein (Harlan grad) Iowa Central
