By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports reporter
Two well-known names in Northern Kentucky girls cross country and track are on this year’s list of inductees into the Buddy LaRosa’s High School Sports Hall of Fame.
One of the honorees is Dayton graduate Stephanie Edgar-Kuntz, a distance runner who won 14 Class A state championships in cross country and track. The other is Brossart coach Dave Schuh, who put together teams that won six straight Class A state titles in track and back-to-back state titles in cross country.
Edgar, who graduated from Dayton in 1990, started running track as a seventh-grader and claimed 11 state titles in six years — two in the 3200-meter run, five in the 1600 run and four in relay events.
In the fall of her senior year, Edgar won the Class A girls state cross country meet for the third straight year with the fastest time of any runner in any class that day. She continued training after the state meet and ran on a Kentucky girls cross country team that placed first in the AAU National Championships.
Schuh started coaching at Brossart in 1980. He didn’t win his first state championship until 1997 in girls track and his teams retained the Class A title for the next five years.
In cross-country, Brossart won back-to-back Class A state titles in 2017 and 2018 under Schuh. He had teams place second or third in the small-school state meet numerous times before finishing on top.
Edgar and Schuh are already members of both the Kentucky Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the Northern Kentucky Athletic Directors Hall of Fame.
They will be formally inducted into the LaRosa’s Hall of Fame during a ceremony in June along with four outstanding student-athletes from Cincinnati high schools — Chrissy Donovan of St. Ursula, Audra Falk of Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, Jefferson Kelley of Colerain and Kyle Rudolph of Elder.
The two high school teams to be honored at the June ceremony are the 1962 Wyoming football team and the 1997 Mother of Mercy volleyball team.