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| | '''Donald Harrison Shows''', known as '''Don Shows''' (February 15, 1940 – March 3, 2014), was an [[United States|American]] athlete of five sports, a coach of the [[Louisiana]]–[[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] Warhawks and the [[Northwestern State University]] Demons [[football]] teams. | | '''Donald Harrison Shows''', known as '''Don Shows''' (February 15, 1940 – March 3, 2014), was an [[United States|American]] athlete of five sports, a coach of the [[Louisiana]]–[[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] Warhawks and the [[Northwestern State University]] Demons [[football]] teams. |
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| − | For most of his career, however, Shows (pronounced SHAUZ) was as at the high school level. From 1989 until 2012,he coached the Class 5-A West Monroe High School Rebels in West Monroe in Ouachita Parish.<ref name=memorialservice/> At least one poll declared the Rebels in both 1998 and 2000 as national champions, a subjective designation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bastropenterprise.com/article/20140303/SPORTS/140309897|author=Marq Mitcham|title=Memorial service planned for West Monroe coach Don Shows: Hall of Fame coach Don Shows, who guided West Monroe to eight state football championships and a pair of national titles, died early Monday morning at age 74|date=March 3, 2014|publisher=''The Bastrop Daily Enterprise''|accessdate=December 26, 2019}}</ref> | + | For most of his career, however, Shows (pronounced SHAUZ) was as at the high school level. From 1989 until 2012,he coached the Class 5-A West Monroe High School Rebels in West Monroe in Ouachita Parish.<ref name=memorialservice/> At least one poll declared the Rebels in both 1998 and 2000 as national champions, a subjective designation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bastropenterprise.com/article/20140303/SPORTS/140309897|author=Marq Mitcham|title=Memorial service planned for West Monroe coach Don Shows: Hall of Fame coach who guided West Monroe to eight state football championships and a pair of national titles, died early Monday morning at age 74|date=March 3, 2014|publisher=''The Bastrop Daily Enterprise''|accessdate=December 26, 2019}}</ref> |
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| | On June 25, 2011, was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]. Chosen by a 30-member committee of the Louisiana Sportswriters Association, the 2011 nominees brought the number honored to that time to 285.<ref name=ttt>"Former Pineville coach elected to La. Hall of Fame," ''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' December 12, 2010.</ref> | | On June 25, 2011, was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]]. Chosen by a 30-member committee of the Louisiana Sportswriters Association, the 2011 nominees brought the number honored to that time to 285.<ref name=ttt>"Former Pineville coach elected to La. Hall of Fame," ''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' December 12, 2010.</ref> |