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July 21, 1994
Grosse Pointe News
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Winning pair enters North's coaches' shrine
The Grosse Pomte North
Boo~ters Club Coaches Hall of
Fame opened Its doors agam
last month after standing idle
for several years
Entermg the shnne were
Jack Edwards, a former track
and cross country coach, and
GUido Regelbrugge, the only
soccer coach in the school's hIStory.
Edwards, known as J.D, retIred
in 1980 and now lIves in
Gamesville,
Betty
Fla , WIth hiS Wife,
He was North's assIstant
track coach and also served unoffiCIally
as the school's assis.
tant cross country coach under
Tom Gauerke He played a ma-
Jor role In the success of the
cross country teams that posted
a 78-5 dual-meet record, won 10
straIght league champIOnshIps,
nme consecutIve reglOual tItles
and three state crowns
After many years as a valued track and cross country assistant,
J.D. Edwards led Grosse Pointe North's boys cross country
team to a ruunet-up finish iu the state in his only season
CIS head coach.
While Edwards was workmg
WIth the track program, those
teams were 108.2 m dual competItIOn
with 10 straight undefeated
seasons, 10 conference
champIOnshIps and eIght regIonal
crowns
In 1979, Edwards replaced
Gauerke as head coach in cross
country and track. HIS cross
country team won league and
regIonal champlOnships and fin.
Ished second m the state Class
A meet HIS track team was 9-1
In dual meets and won its regIonal
Edwards grew up on the east
SIde of Detroit and partIcipated
in track at Southeastern HIgh
School He graduated from
Eastern Michigan Umversity
where he was a sprinter and
hurdler on one of the top track
squads m the natlOn
He taught in the DetroIt pubhc
schools for 18 years, volunteering
as track coach at
Grosse Pointe HIgh School.
When North opened in 1968,
Edwards joined the school's science
department, where he
taught biology and started
classes in microbology and phy-
SIOlogy
Regelbrugge started the boys
soccer program at North in
1980 and it was an immediate
success The first-year team
was 14-1-2 and advanced to the
regional final. In the 14 years
Regelbrugge has guided the
boys soccer team, the Norsemen
have compiled a 175-56-24
record that includes 11 league,
two dlstnct and one regIonal
champIOnship
When girls soccer started at
North m 1985, Regelbrugge
also took over that program
and It has been Just as successful.
In 10 seasons the Lady
Norsemen are 135-23-7 with
eIght league champIOnships,
three district tttles and one regIonal
crown HIS 1993 team
was ranked thIrd m the final
state poll and lost to the eventual
state champIOn 2 1 In overtIme
m the regIonal final
Regelbrugge grew up III
Esko, BelgIUm, where he
learned soccer at an early age
After playmg for several com
mumty teams, he was drafted
by Esko's semIpro team when
he was 16 When he entered
teacher's college m St NIcolas
he played for the school's team
that defeated several amateur
and profeSSIOnal squads and
reached the semmnals of the
Belgian National ChampIonship
in 1957
After servmg in the air force,
Regelbrugge was urged to play
pro soccer, but mstead ImmIgrated
to the Umted States
Regelbrugge's EnglIsh was
limlwd when he arrived III the
DetroIt area, but he wanted to
teach French at the high school
level He mtervlewed at St
Rose School m the summer of
1961 and was offered a Job
teaching French and social
studies, contmgent on hIS
learnmg EnglIsh He spent 18
hours a day that summer learnmg
the language and m the
fall started teaching at St.
Rose. He taught there for five
years while obtammg hIS teaching
certificate frO!!! the Umversity
of Detroit.
Regelbrugge did his student
teaching at Grosse Pomte High
School in 1966 and made such
an impression on the adnumstration
that he was hlred Immediately.
He was a member of North's
first staff m 1968, but smce soc
cer wasn't a sport recogmzed by
the Michigan High School Athletic
ASSOCIatIOn,Regelbrugge
stayed m touch With the game
by coachIng neIghborhood age
group teams
In 1979 he was offered the
varsity boys and gIrls Jobs at
Birmingham Groves and
coached both teams to wmmng
records The folloWIng year he
began hIS long and successful
tenure at North
Edward!> and Regelbrugge
each fit the CrIterIa fO!entermg
North's Hall of Fame - coach
mg for a minImum of 10 years,
a head coach for at least one
year and must have made a
major, posItive contrIbutIOn to
North's athletic program
In addItiOn to theIr Impres-
SIve records, Edwards and Regelbrugge
have always stressed
values while teachmg the fun
damentals of their sports
They Jom Gauerke, JIm
Kruckl, Tom Teetaert and Ray
RItter as the only mductees In
North's Coachec; Hall of Fame
Guido 'Regelbruggehos compiled a remarkable record as
the only soccer coach in Grosse Pointe North's history.
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