Jim Reed

Jim Reed was a multi-sport standout at Arkansas City Junior College. He was an All-American in basketball in 1954, and lettered in football, basketball, and track in 1953 and 1954. He helped the Tigers to the Region VI basketball championship and a national runner-up finish in 1952-53 with a 29-5 record. He also was an incredible tennis player and coach. He was named tennis Coach of the Year by the Wichita Area Coaches Association in both 1962 and 1963, named National High School Tennis Coach of the Year in 1978, and was inducted into the Southwestern College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993. Reed also was named to the inaugural class of the Kansas Tennis Coaches Hall of Fame in 1998, and entered the USTA Missouri Valley Section Hall of Fame in 1998. For years, Reed served Winfield High School as math teacher and tennis coach, retiring in 1981. He guided WHS to the most state tennis championships of any high school in the nation up to that time.