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Life lessons: Teacher Jim Brueckner to receive Lifetime Achievement award

By Dixon Bledsoe When Jim Brueckner started teaching at Silverton High School in 1973, girls didn’t play basketball. Nationally, Title IX changed that in 1972.  In Silverton, Brueckner did in 1976. At the first tryout, 90 girls showed up to vie for 30 spots, none having played basketball.   Brueckner and his assistant coach Tom Steers held free camps for girls […]