A Resolution congratulating and commending Coach Ron Slaymaker.
WHEREAS, Ron Slaymaker has retired as the basketball coach at Emporia
State University; and
WHEREAS, Coach Slaymaker completed his 28th year as Emporia State
University's head basketball coach on February 21, 1998, with a record of 463
wins and 363 losses. Coaching honors received by Coach Slaymaker include
NAIA National Coach of the Year (1986), Olympic Selection Committee (1988),
USA Basketball Games Committee (1988-92), District 10 Coach of the Year
(1976-77, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1991-92), Assistant Coach,
World University Games (1987), Assistant Coach, US Olympic Festival (1986).
He was inducted into the ESU Athletic Hall of Honor in 1987 and the Kansas
Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1997. He also received the
first-ever MO-KAN Quality in Coaching Award from the KC Benchwarmers.
He served as the President of the NAIA National Basketball Coaches Associ-
ation, and he was the head coach of the first NAIA All American team that was
scheduled for international play; and
WHEREAS, Coach Slaymaker, a Peabody native, started his collegiate play-
ing career at Emporia State University in 1954 as a point guard. He was named
as an all conference player three times and earned honorable mention All-
America honors following the 1957-58 season. He is remembered as a deadly
perimeter shooter who had a nearly flawless (90.9%) free-throw record in 1959-
60. Ron Slaymaker coached boys basketball at Roosevelt High School in Em-
poria for eight years before returning to Emporia State University in 1968 to
be an assistant under Gus Fish. He succeeded Fish in 1970; and
WHEREAS, Coach Slaymaker will be honored at a testimonial dinner on
Saturday, April 18, at White Auditorium on the ESU campus; and
WHEREAS, Coach Slaymaker and his wife, Shirley, have two sons, Rocky
and Lance. He underwent surgery for prostate cancer during the 1995-96 sea-
son. After making several speaking engagements on the subject of prostate
cancer, he was awarded the 1996 Don Jones Memorial Courage Award. He will
continue at ESU as a faculty member in the Department of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation: Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas: That we congratulate
and commend Coach Ron Slaymaker upon the completion of 28 years as the
basketball coach at Emporia State University; and
Be it further resolved: That the Secretary of the Senate be directed to
provide an enrolled copy of this resolution to Dr. Ron Slaymaker, Department
of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Emporia State University, 1200
Commercial, Emporia, Kansas 66801-5087.
Senate Resolution No. 1824 was sponsored by Senator Gerald (Jerry) Karr.
I hereby certify that the above Resolution originated in the Senate, and
was adopted by that body