Sipes to replace Youngworth as Carthage girls track coach

(From the Carthage R-9 School District)

Nicole Sipes has been tabbed as the next head coach for the Carthage High School girls’ track team. Sipes, a native of Frontenac, Kansas, has been an assistant track coach for the Tigers since 2010. 

She will take the position that is being vacated by Andy Youngworth, who retires from CHS as the head track coach of both the boys’ and girls’ track teams at the conclusion of the season this spring.

Coach Sipes has been with the Carthage R-9 School District since her hiring in 2008. She was originally hired as a volleyball and basketball coach and taught health at CHS. She now teaches personal fitness, general weights, and powerwalking in the physical education department.

While in high school at Frontenac, she excelled in basketball and volleyball. She also ran track as a freshman, then joined the softball team which was a newly formed sport in her last three years in high school.

Sipes continued her athletic and academic career at Labette Community College signing to play basketball. While at Labette, she also played volleyball one year, and played on the softball team two years. Her collegiate path then took her to Pittsburg State University as a member of the women’s basketball team. It’s at PSU that she completed her bachelor’s degree while earning Dean’s List recognition as a student-athlete.

Upon graduation from Pitt State Coach Sipes began her teaching and coaching career at Northeast School District in Kansas where she taught and coached for two years.

She then moved to Sarcoxie High School to accept her first jobs as a head coach. She led the Bears’ softball team for eleven years, girls’ volleyball for 10 years, and girls’ basketball for 2 seasons. That head coaching experience will be valuable as she begins her tenure at CHS next school year.