Batesville’s Heppner retires

Coach Eric Heppner met with returning football players yesterday to announce his retirement as Batesville High School Football Coach. Coach Heppner went 148-83 in his 20 seasons as head coach at his alma mater and won eight IHSAA Sectional Championships. Fifteen times in the last 18 years the Bulldogs finished above .500. Heppner’s squads won nine games on eight occasions in that span.

Batesville head coach Eric Heppner (Photo by Greg Shoemaker/TSF)

Additionally, he created and managed the weight program for BHS which has benefited all of the successful sports programs in our corporation.

Also retiring from their positions will be long time assistant coaches Tim Hunter, Mike Ploeger, Terry Nobbe, and Steve Ollier.

The move now makes Ryan Knigga of Lawrenceburg the longest tenured coach in the Eastern Indiana Athletic Conference with five years in the league. Franklin County’s Kirk Kennedy has been a head coach for 25 seasons but only two in the EIAC with the Wildcats.

In an interesting side note another Batesville alum Jeff Giesting has stepped down at Anderson. Heppner and Giesting were teammates with the Bulldogs and then had great coaching careers at the high school level.

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