Retired Ark City tennis coach J.C. Louderback will be inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in a ceremony next month.
Louderback coached the Bulldogs in tennis for 36 years and won three state championships as a coach in 1989, 90 and 92. He also coached 20 singles and doubles state champions.
Louderback was also a three sport athlete in tennis, football and basketball at Cowley College and then at Southwestern College.
He will join nine others who will be honored at 10 a.m., Aug. 2 at the Washburn Union Ballroom, 1700 SW College in Topeka. Tickets for the ceremony and lunch are available at www.kshof.org.
The Louderback family was named 2002 Family of the Year by the United States Tennis Association. He also officiated football from 1957 to 1999 and basketball from 1957 to 1988.
He has been inducted to the Southwestern College Athletics Hall of Fame (1990), the UTSA Missouri Valley Hall of Fame (1998), the Cowley College Athletics Hall of Fame (2000), the Kansas Collegiate Officials Hall of Fame (2003), and the Kansas State High School Activities Association Hall of Fame (2016).
