Good Sports: Ken Shipley inducted into Clovis Athletic Hall of Fame

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's hard to find a manager much accordant than Ken Shipley.

I've gotten cloudy of eyes a fewer times," helium said. "It's very, precise special."

The erstwhile longtime Clovis West Girls play manager precocious cemented his legacy.

This November, helium was inducted into the Clovis Athletic Hall of Fame.

"When I got a telephone astir it successful May oregon June, I was tremendously surprised," helium said.

For astir 30 years, Shipley worked arsenic a prof and elder head astatine Fresno State.

Approaching retirement, a 2nd vocation came calling.

"I got respective calls saying, 'Hey, you'd beryllium a cleanable manager for Clovis West.' and one talked to a fewer radical and thought that mightiness beryllium interesting," helium said.

Shipley raised a golfer himself - his daughter, Jennifer, who starred astatine Clovis High and Fresno State.

Shipley felt close astatine home.

"What I deliberation I offered is immoderate cognition of the game, immoderate consistency and truly caring for the kids and what we're doing," helium said.

"He gave everything helium had and years of cognition and experience," says existent manager Jason Simonetti. "If you were portion of his program, you were going to person to enactment that enactment successful and helium did it himself."

Every January, Shipley would person the girls laic retired their goals - giving him the representation to operation a crippled plan.

"They bought into it and erstwhile they did, boy, there's nary limits to however palmy they could be," helium said.

From his archetypal time to his past time connected the job, Shipley won much than 90-percent of the tournaments helium coached.

"It's unheard of," Simonetti said. "That benignant of streak, it's pugnacious to spot that it volition ever beryllium repeated oregon travel close."

During Shipley's tenure, 17 girls person gone connected to play play astatine 15 antithetic universities.

"The consistency and enactment I had, on with the girls and the parents that we had, is truly what led to success," helium said.

After decades of teaching connected and disconnected the course, Shipley tin yet telephone himself a hallway of fame.

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