A former Houston High School boys’ basketball coach is being inducted into the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame.
Jerry Kirksey, who coached at HHS from 1964-’69, will be enshrined with the class of 2018 on April 21 at the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in Springfield.
Kirksey coached eight years on the high school level, was a collegiate assistant eight years and head college coach 12 years, including a national championshp at Drury University. In Houston, he won three regional championships in five years and led one team to a No. 1 state ranking.
Kirksey and his brother, Mike, were the first siblings in state history to be named first team all-state in the same season.
He had a standout career at Southwest Missouri State that included a second-place national finish in 1958. He made the all-tournament team in every college tournament he ever played in.
He is a member of the MSU hall of fame.