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Thirty-three and twenty-nine, those are the numbers that reflect both years taught and seasons coached for Everett Hartman. Currently, he is an assistant coach on Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC) men's basketball team but this is certainly not his first rodeo in college coaching or even his first rodeo at LBCC."Coach Hartman is an unbelievable person, he has been the piece in the puzzle that has been missing for so long here at LB," says Austin Peters, a player on LB's basketball team.
Everett graduated at Western Oregon in 1983 earning a degree in high school social sciences. His first two years were spent teaching at Philomath High School and his last 31 have all been at West Albany High School in Albany, Ore.
He teaches everything from Advanced Placement history classes to psychology classes and is known at West Albany for being extremely passionate about everything he teaches. Mr. Hartman has been married to the same woman for 34 years and she also teaches at West Albany. Everett is a huge fan of all things history and sports. In addition to being a long-time teacher Mr. Hartman has also coached basketball for a large portion of his life.
He has coached two different schools for nine years as a high school freshman coach, two different schools for eight years as a junior varsity coach, four years as West Albany's varsity coach (1999-2003) and lead assistant at LBCC from 2003-2005 where he helped lead the team to the NWAC tournament for the first time in school history.
"He brings a spark of energy that we've been missing," says Tanner Tibbett, guard on LB's team. "He really has us focus on the defensive aspect, both as a team and individually."
"He's very approachable and willing to help for what's best for the team," says Peters. "He's a leader, and a teacher of the game and I'm happy that he is apart of LB basketball this year."
"This season at LBCC has been a little bit of a struggle," said Hartman. "Our record currently sits at 7-16 overall and 3-9 in the Southern Region."
This year marks the last year for Everett in teaching and when asked about what he will miss most he stated that he will miss the time he gets to spend getting to know and help grow his students/players.
"The most rewarding aspect of coaching is the bond and the relationship you get to develop with players. Teaching them basketball is fun but also to teach them how to become a man, a grown up, a college student athlete is especially rewarding," says Hartman.
At a glance: Everett Hartman is a long-time teacher and coach in Albany, Ore. He has coached at multiple high schools at all three levels (freshman, junior varsity and varsity). He was lead assistant at Linn-Benton Community College for two years. After that he left LBCC and became lead assistant at Western Oregon from 2005-2008 and then retired from coaching for two years. Everett then came back to coach West Albany's freshman team to a 22-1 win/loss record and then the next year was an assistant on the Varsity team at West leading them to the Eugene State Tournament, the school's first entry since 1991. Everett then sat out another two years and was then hired this year at LBCC for a second time.
Linn-Benton Community College Men's Basketball
"Hartman joins college rank" by Aaron Yost
"All-star basketball game set for Friday" Corvallis Gazette-Times
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