Hempstead High School (Dubuque, Iowa) - Football= - Coaches

Coaches

--Dick Core led Hempstead to eight state tournaments (1974–1999) and won four championships in baseball. He compiled a 650-344 career record at Hempstead and Dubuque Senior. The school named its baseball field Dick Core Field after he retired. In 2007, Core came out of retirement to coach the East Dubuque baseball team.

--Bob Timmerman compiled a 107-58 record as head varsity football coach, and had a career 157-76-5 record in 26 years as a head football coach (he also coached at Dyersville Beckman). Timmerman resigned as the varsity coach in 1991 and has coached the freshman team since. He is still active as of 2008, and has been coaching football for 50 years.

--Dan Dunham was the first wrestling coach when the school opened in 1969, and stayed in that post for 30 years. He sent over 100 wrestlers to the state tournament, and was inducted into the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1999. The wrestling room was named the Dunham Wrestling Room in 2002. Dunham, who started his career as the coach at Jesup High School, compiled a 232-196-6 career record.

--LaVerne Kloster was inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2001. He coached girls cross country, girls track and girls basketball at Moorehead, East Monona, Woodbine, Storm Lake and Hempstead. He is a member of the Iowa Association of Track Coaches Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Iowa Girls Coaches Association Hall of Fame (basketball coaches) in 1991.

Kloster's career basketball record was 532-247 in 33 years, with 12 of those coming at Hempstead. At Woodbine, his basketball teams were champions in 1968, third in 1969, and third in 1974.

His track teams at Woodbine were state indoor champs in 1975 and 1976, and outdoor champions in 1973, 1974 and 1975. He has coached 12 state individual champions, 8 state relay champions plus 5 Drake Relays champions in track. At Woodbine, Kloster coached Debbie Esser, who went on to run track at Iowa State, where she became the first woman in the history of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, (AIAW), to collect four national titles in the same event (400-meter hurdles).

--Mike Marty guided the Mustangs to five state tournaments in volleyball (including the 1975 state championship), was a three-time Mississippi Valley Conference coach of the year, and finished with a career record of 380-70. He was inducted into the Iowa Girls' Coaches Association in 2006.

--Norm Anderson has coached boys track for 50 years, and has been the school's head track coach since the school opened in 1969.