Bob Shoemaker, Ohio HS Hall-of-Famer, Keeps Competing

Age, heart problems can’t slow local Hall of Fame basketball coach down

“A local Hall of Fame high school basketball coach, with 19 years spent at Heath, Shoemaker, 73, has been a Senior Olympics star since he was 54.

It almost didn’t happen.

In 1995, during his second year of Senior Olympic competition, he learned he had 98 percent blockage in one heart artery and 96 percent in the other. He also had high cholesterol and Type 2 diabetes.”