Debbie Howell Klotz

Ms. Howell led the KCD girls’ gymnastic squad for eight seasons. She has collected more state team championships than any Bearcat coach, including five state titles (1981 and 1984 through 1987). Her coaching led KCD to seven straight regional titles. More impressively, her squads never lost a dual meet during her eight-year coaching career. Ms. Howell was named the 1986 Kentucky Coach of the Year and Region 3 Special Sports Coach of the Year by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association. She was nominated in 1986 to be National High School Gymnastics Coach of the Year. She continues to teach and judge gymnastics events regionally. Today, Ms. Howell is married as Ms. Klotz and lives in Prospect. She continues her thirty-year stint as a KCD physical education instructor and as head coach of the KCD diving program.

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