Episode 107: Coach Edwin Fritz (Head Boys Basketball Coach Blue Valley Northwest High) in Overland Park, KS

Coach Ed Fritz is in his seventeenth year as the head boys' basketball coach of the Blue Valley Northwest Huskies in Overland Park, KS.  During his 16-year tenure, the basketball program has appeared in eleven Kansas 6A state tournaments, seven state championship games, and won four state titles (including back to back titles in both 2013 & 2014 and 2017 & 2018).  The 2012-2013 state championship team went 25-0; including a win over DeLaSalle High School in Minnesota (2013 3A State Champs).  In 2012-2013, Northwest finished 19th in the USA Today’s poll and 10th in MaxPreps poll. During the 2017-2018 basketball season, Coach Fritz eclipsed the 600 win total.  He is now 614-271 all-time, including a 180-41 record over the last nine years.  He was selected Kansas All-Classes Coach of the Year and Kansas 6A Coach of the Year in 2018.  This was the second time he won the Kansas Coach of the Year award.  In 2012, Coach Fritz received the “Paul Lambert” Award recognizing the best coach in the Kansas City area.  Coach Fritz was inducted into the Greater Kansas City Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2017.  In 2015, Coach Fritz was inducted into Williamsville North’s Hall of Fame (Buffalo, NY) for his outstanding high school career. Prior to taking the job at Blue Valley Northwest, Coach Fritz was the head coach at Center High School for fifteen years.  He has been a head college coach at Baker University and an assistant at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.  Coach Fritz is highly involved in youth basketball running numerous tournaments, leagues and camps.  He coached a seventh grade youth team which has captured two USSSA national titles and many other awards.  Ed’s wife, Ann, is the head girls basketball coach at Blue Valley North High School. Blue Valley Northwest has won last 3 state titles have been in the title 8 out of last 10 years have 83 % of games. Have numerous kids playing D1 currently. Abeline Christian, Tulsa, Kansas, Missouri, Georgia, Illinois Chicago. Also had two kids lead Loyola Chicago to NCAA final. Clayton Custer Mid Major POY and Ben Richardson Missouri Valley Defensive POY.  Lucky to coach East team in McDonald’s game last year 2019. Won game and had Cole Anthony, Isaiah Stewart, Anthony Edwards, Scottie Lewis and others on our team. Won career 638 games and numerous awards and HOF. My wife Ann has won 3 state titles at Blue Valley North and son Vince is on Fred Hoiberg’s staff at Nebraska. https://bvnwboysbasketball.weebly.com/coaches.html @coachedfritz [email protected]