A basketball coaching legend is back in the Wichita City League.
Steve Eck has been named as the new boy's basketball coach at Kapaun Mount Carmel High School for the upcoming school year.
At the end of the season, Eck will step down as head men's basketball coach at Hutchinson Community College; Hutchinson will be competing in the National Junior College tournament on its home court. Eck is the all-time winningest coach in Hutchinson CC history.
At Wichita South HS from 1986 to 1996, Eck's teams won 10 consecutive City League Championships, and six Class 6A state titles.
At the collegiate level, Eck coached two teams to Junior College national championships (Redlands CC in 2001, and Hutchinson CC in 2017), and has been runner-up two other times. Eck's lifetime record as a head coach is 977-162, an 86% winning average.
In a statement released by KMC, Eck said, "I look forward to coaching Kapaun Mt. Carmel's excellent basketball program. I consider myself blessed to have had the opportunities that God has given me to coach outstanding young men in the sport I love. To do so, at a Catholic school named after a man of such heroic virtue as Fr. Emil Kapaun, is an honor for me."