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Greg Krause
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Age:
49 on Tuesday
Residence:
Tonkawa, Oklahoma
Accomplishments:
Led Northern Burlington to a 27-2 record and
the Group 3 state finals in 1972-1973 season as a
senior. Led the county in scoring as a junior
(22ppg.).
He coached 22 seasons at Northern Oklahoma
College, a two year school in Tonkawa, Okla. The
school has reached the junior college regional finals
several times, including this season when it
finished 21-8.
Krause has been married 22 years to wife,
Sigrid
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Distractions are few in Tonkawa Okla.,a
college town of 5,000 people. The nearest city is
Wichita, Kan- an hour drive away. Oklahoma City is
90 miles to the south.
That's a
good thing, Greg Krause will tell you. The
former Northern Burlington High School basketball
standout has found big success there, coaching the
Northern Oklahoma College to several regional
finals over 22 seasons.
The Lady Mavs junior college program
finished as regional runner-up again this season,
finishing 21-9.
Players come to Tonkawa to go to class and
to hone their basketball skills--not to find
mischief, Krause says. Many want to take their
games and studies to a Division 1 university. His
players have gone on to play at schools like
Colorado State and Oklahoma. "You come here
because you want to work on things,"says Krause,
who turns 49 on Tuesday "The girls are very loyal
and very committed. It's a lot of fun to coach
those kinds of teams. I can relate". At
Northern Krause was a hard working,
unselfish 6-foot-5 standout who drove the Greyhounds
to the 1973 state finals and a 27-2 record in his
senior year. Krause scored 20.8 points per game
that year. As a junior, he scored a county-best
22.6 points per game. He still holds the school
single-game scoring record with 51 points. He
went on to St. Joseph's but was there only a
season. While playing on the freshman team, he
tore a hamstring and was out much of the season.
He was troubled by his parents' separation. His
grades slipped. He needed a change.
He moved to Oklahoma, Krause had family
there. He enrolled in Oklahoma City University,
and averaged about 12 point and 10 rebounds a game
over three seasons.
The
independent school played some of the nation's
best, including the Sidney Moncrief-led Arkansas
club and the national champion Marquette club of
1977. they beat nationally ranked Wichita State on
the road. After graduating in 1978 he turned to
coaching.
"That was the next best thing to
playing,"he says.
He coached high school boys basketball,
then caught on as an assistant at Oklahoma State.
First, he was an assistant coach for the men's
club, then the women's team.
He took a position as a local high school
boys basketball coach, for the 1982-1983 school
year, but then Northern Oklahoma College invited
him up for an interview. He was offered the
college coaching job the next day.
Krause didn't think he'd coach there for
more than two decades. He didn't think he'd be
anywhere ore than a few years. His father was in
the military, and the family never stayed in one
place for more than a few years.
The five years he spent in Burlington
County was the longest time he had lived anywhere.
But Tonkawa has a lot of what he wants. he
doesn't want the pressure-packed life of being a
major college coach.
He's been married for 22 years to wife
Sigrid, who he met while he was coaching and
earning his master's degree at Oklahoma State
University.
"Wherever you coach is big time," Krause
says. "And it's just a good feeling to stay in
one place for a while.".
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