Marc Edwards
Norwood High School
Class of 1993

Marc Edwards may be the last two-way football player to gain national recognition to come out of Cincinnati. The 1992 LaRosa’s Male Athlete of the Year (he won as a junior), is unquestionably the finest football player in Norwood High School history, and may be the best to come out of Cincinnati in the last decade.

Recognized as an ESPN High School All-American, Edwards seldom left the football field. He not only starred at fullback and linebacker, but was also Norwood’s place-kicker and punter!

His career statistics were amazing. He led the city in rushing three straight seasons, amassing 6,001 yards and scoring 73 touchdowns. He had 535 career tackles.

As a junior, Marc rushed for 2,074 yards on 259 carries (8.0 yards per carry) and scoring 152 points on 21 touchdowns, 20 PAT kicks and three 2-point PATs. On defense, he had 413 tackles, 7 interceptions, 8 fumble recoveries and a 36-yard punting average in leading Norwood to its first postseason football appearance in school history. As a senior, he rushed for 1,721 yards and scored 26 touchdowns, while making 122 tackles.

His awards included being named Ohio Player of the Year by the Associated Press, Ohio’s Mr. Football, Ohio Player of the Year by USA Today; he was named the 10 th Best Player in the Midwest by the Detroit Free Press and was twice named The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Player of the Year (1991 and 1992).

He went on to attend the University of Notre Dame where he started as a true freshman. He was a college All-American honorable mention as a junior after rushing for a career-high 717 yards and scoring nine touchdowns. Named team captain for the Fighting Irish as a senior, Marc finished his collegiate career with 1,591 yards rushing and 27 touchdowns; he had 46 career receptions for 598 yards and five touchdowns.

Edwards is the first player in Norwood High School history to be drafted by the NFL (Second round, 25 th pick, by the San Francisco 49ers in 1997).

Currently, Marc plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars, where he lives with wife, Darsi, and daughter Taya (5), Ella (3), Livi (born in April).

Kevin Grevey
Hamilton Taft High School
Class of 1971

In the storied tradition of basketball in the city of Hamilton, arguably the greatest player to ever step on the hardwood is Kevin Grevey. A high school All-American, Kevin went on to be one of the greatest players in this history of the University of Kentucky, and then on to a World Championship during his 10-year pro career in the NBA.

As a three-year varsity starter at Hamilton Taft under legendary coach Marv McCollum – and in an era prior to the 3-point goal – Grevey finished his career with 1,470 points – just one of 17 school records Grevey held upon his graduation. His three-year regular season career average was 23.7 points. Kevin set 16 of his high school records his senior year when he averaged an amazing 32.8 points per game.

Grevey earned numerous state and national awards, including First Team All-Ohio Associated Press in 1971. He was selected to the Scholastic Coach Magazine, Coach-Athletic Magazine and Sunkist All-America teams. He was a member of the USA All-Star team, played in the prestigious Dapper Dan Classic, the national East-West All-Star game and the All-American All-Star game.

Kevin continued to perform at the collegiate level, playing for one of the most famous programs in the country. At UK, he was named Southeastern Conference Player of the Year three times and was named All-American twice. He scored 34 points in the NCAA championship game vs. UCLA in 1975, and wound up his college career with 1,801 points. He ranked second all time in UK scoring history at the time of his graduation, and currently stands 7 th on the all-time scoring list, and third all-time in career average (21.4) and career field goals (771).

A first-round draft pick by the Washington Bullets in 1975 (18 th overall), Grevey played 10 seasons in the NBA, and was the starting guard for the 1978 World Championship Bullets team. He played his last two seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks and finished his career with 7,364 points.

Currently living in Great Falls, Va., Kevin and his wife, Sandy, have a daughter (Amanda, 18), and twins sons (Andrew and Kevin, 17). He is the owner of Grevey’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, a scout for the Los Angeles Lakers and TV & Radio analyst for CBS/Westwood 1 and Fox Sports Network.

Theresa (Hawkins) Horton
Lakota High School
Class of 1980

Theresa Hawkins and her family arrived at Lakota High School from Minnesota, and in two short years forged a record of athletic achievement which has not been seen since in Lakota high school sports history. She earned seven varsity letters – playing four totally dissimilar sports (soccer, basketball, track and softball).

She won two state championships in track – setting two state records in the process and established 17 individual school records in basketball, soccer and softball.

In track and field, she won the 1979 Ohio shot put championship with an 8-pound shot with a record throw of 46-feet ¾-inch; then came back in 1980 with an 8.8-pound shot and set a state record in 44-4½. Ten weeks before the state meet in 1980, she picked up the discus for the first time and wound up with the Ohio silver medal (138-6), and she anchored the 7 th place finishing 400-meter relay team.

Theresa played slow-pitch softball for one season (1979) and set school records with a .671 batting average, 15 home runs and 61 RBI and led the team to a 23-0 season.

During the fall, she played soccer and led Lakota in scoring both years. Theresa scored five goals in one game, which still stood as a school record at Lakota when the school district split into two high schools (Lakota West and East).

Basketball, however, may have been her best sport. She set 13 school records in two seasons – three of which stood at the close of the high school (career scoring average, single season and career rebounding average). She scored more than 800 points in her career and had more than 500 rebounds in leading Lakota to a 20-3 record and a Top Ten state ranking during the 1979-80 season. She was named First Team All-Ohio, Mid-Miami League Player of the Year, Golden Triangle Player of the Year and starred in the first Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association All-Star game.

Theresa went on to play college basketball at Drake University where a severe knee injury cut short her career after two seasons.

Currently living in Pine Mountain, Ga., Theresa and her husband, Mike, have a daughter (Emily). Theresa is a Home Health Physical Therapist for Chatahochee Valley Home Health.

Tina (Silbersack) Trevino
St. Ursula Academy
Class of 1992

Tina Silbersack – the 1992 LaRosa’s Female High School Athlete of the Year – was the first female swimmer in Ohio history to win four consecutive state championships in the same event – the 100-yard butterfly. A nine-time High School All-American, Tina was undefeated in four years in the butterfly event.

What made this accomplishment even more remarkable was fact that she broke her left hand three weeks prior to the sectional tournament as a senior while swimming the backstroke. She competed, nonetheless, with a four-pound cast on her hand and after a three-week layoff, proceeded to win the sectional, district and her fourth straight state title with a time of 55.92.

She also won a fifth state title as a member of St. Ursula’s 1992 200-yard medley relay team. Tina’s record time in the 100-butterfly (56.21) set in 1989 as a freshman in the Southwestern Ohio District meet stood until 2002.

She was named to the All-City and All-Ohio first teams for four straight seasons, and was named The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Female Swimmer of the Year three times, and twice by The Cincinnati Post. An Academic All-American, Tina was named St. Ursula’s Scholar-Athlete and Athlete of the Year in 1992. She was YMCA national champion in three events in 1992 (100 butterfly, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay) and national runnerup in the 200 butterfly.

Tina continued her swimming career at the University of Tennessee.

Currently, Tina, and her husband Eric, reside in Xenia, Ohio where she works in the Development Office of Athletes in Action, the sports ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.

Don Ruberg
Elder High School
Class of 1947

In the first 50 years of Elder High School’s existence, only 25 men have earned the recognition of being named one of the “Men of Elder,” and Don Ruberg ranks among the top of that list.

A three-year starter in both basketball and baseball, and later a head coach of two Elder state championship teams, Don went on to coach basketball and baseball at Xavier University the late 1950s through the mid-1960s.

Don was an outstanding athlete at Elder. Though scoring statistics were not preserved, Ruberg averaged slightly more than 10 points per game during an era when high scoring basketball games were rare. As a left fielder in baseball, Don hit over .300 in his career. A testimony to his excellence was that he was named both All-Greater Catholic League and All-City in both sports as a junior and senior. Elder won the GCL baseball title all three seasons Ruberg was there, and the Panthers were Regional champions in 1946 before losing in the state championship game.

Offered a baseball contract with the Cincinnati Reds and a baseball scholarship by Ohio State University, Don accepted a basketball scholarship at Xavier University. After a stellar career in both baseball and basketball at Xavier, Ruberg played minor league baseball with the Cleveland Indians before eventually returning to Elder to teach and coach. He was head coach for both the basketball and baseball teams from 1954-56, and assistant football coach (there were only two coaches at the time).

In three short seasons, his baseball team compiled a 67-9 overall record and won two state championships, and was runnerup in the third. His 1956 basketball team won the GCL title. Ruberg was named GCL Coach of the Year four times (three in baseball, one in basketball).

In 1956, Don became an assistant basketball coach and head baseball coach at XU where the Musketeers became the first Ohio basketball team to win the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). He was head coach from 1963-67 where he compiled a 53-51 record.

In addition to the prestigious 25 Men of Elder Award, Ruberg has been inducted into the XU Hall of Fame and the West Side Old Timers Baseball Association Hall of Fame.

Retired, Don and his wife, Rose Mary live Cincinnati. The have five children – Don, Steve, Mark, Dan and Mary – and 16 grandchildren.