Junior Octavian McFadden, Topeka High, heads to the basket.

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Coach Ken Darting racks-up career win 600 in Shawnee Heights win over KC-Turner.

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2025 All-City Boys Swimming & Diving 1st Team.

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Seaman's Ava Esser (40) & Shawnee Heights' Kaydence Torrez (20) in a UKC match-up.

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Easton Browterman, Washburn Rural, wins 3rd straight Class 6A state championship.

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Makayla Cadet, Highland Park, prepares to wrestle - resulting in winning a Class 5A state title.

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By RICK PETERSON

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Bob Bodenheimer, who coached Shawnee Heights' boys basketball team to back-to-back Class 5A state championships in the late 1980s, passed away Saturday at the age of 86.

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Bodenheimer, who coached the T-Birds to state championships in 1988 and 1989, passed away at Midland Hospice House in Topeka.

Visitation will be held on Friday, May 13, 2022, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Brennan-Mathena Funeral Home.

Bodenheimer's funeral service will be on Saturday, May 14, at 10 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Topeka. 

Bodenheimer's 1987-1988 Shawnee Heights team posted an 18-6 record and his '88-'89 title team went 18-5.

Shawnee Heights beat Campus in the '88 state championship game and McPherson in the '89 title game. 

Bodenheiemer's T-Birds captured the Centennial League championship in 1988, were the co-league champs in '89, '91 and '92 and won the league title outright again in '93.

To share a memory or to leave condolences, please visit, www.brennanmathenafh.com.

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