Scanlon began his basketball coaching career at Union Star and went on to coach at North Harrison from 1977 to 1979. From there, he went on to coach at Hamilton, Benton, and Rock Bridge in Columbia, where he has served since 1983. In 2019, Scanlon, after coming close several times, finally got his state title with Rock Bridge. He has a record of 796-241 throughout his years of coaching basketball. He was a 1969 graduate of Breckinridge High School, where he was an all-state basketball player. Scanlon retired from teaching Physical Education at Rock Bridge, but will continue to coach them in basketball.
Erle Bennett started off on the Nodaway-Holt coaching staff, and then moved to North Nodaway, where he served as Marty Albertson’s assistant for the 1983-84 275 Conference Champions. He stayed for the 1984 campaign and then coached at Worth County from 1985 to 1988.
Subsequently, Bennett went to Centralia, where he served as an assistant for a few years, and then became the head coach, building that school into a powerhouse and winning some state titles. At one point John Rinehart, a Worth County grad who played under Bennett, was one of his assistants.
During his time at North Nodaway, Jim Lohman of the Hopkins Journal did a feature on Bennett. He said in that paper that while he was open to coaching at a small college, all he ever wanted to be was a high school football coach.
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