Coaches With Character

C-10 Podcast: Mari Foster, Ep. 157

  On Episode 157 of the C-10 Podcast, we’re chatting with Mari Foster, one of this year’s six Blue KC Coaches with Character honorees. Mari has been a coach in the Kansas City Public School District for more than 25 years. She started at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy Middle School in 1998, and then created the Tiger Dance Team in 2005, which reached the state championships just three years later, in 2008. In addition to … Read more

C-10 Podcast: Tim Kluempers, Ep. 156

  For Episode 156 of the C-10 Podcast, we’re featuring Tim Kluempers, the second of six 2024 Blue KC Coaches with Character honorees. Tim started the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints Rugby team in 2007. Under his direction, the Saints have won the Kansas state championship nearly every year, and they’ve competed on the national stage, also. Before getting into coaching, Tim played for the US National Rugby team from 1996-2001, and for the Kansas City … Read more

C-10 Podcast: Jill Courter, Ep. 155

On Episode 155 of the C-10 Podcast, we’re chatting with the July Blue KC Coaches with Character honoree, Jill Courter, the girls golf coach at Blue Springs High School. Jill Courter has worked in the Blue Springs School District for more than 25 years, and has been the golf coach since 2007. During the past 17 years, she had an undefeated team that won the Missouri state championship in 2014, she’s had one individual golfer … Read more