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Bill Ginn played football, basketball and ran track at Stivers. His best sport was basketball. He played for Coach R.C.”Skipper” LaRue. Stivers was City League Champion in 1944 and was named the 1944 City”Team of the Year.”  Bill was Stivers  1944 “Player of the Year” and was named to the […]

Herman Raiff was singled out as one of Stivers all time great athletes by Robert”Pop” Worst in his “A History of Stivers Athletes”. Mr. Worst was the legendary athletics director at Stivers for thirty-four years and the architect who helped create the great teams and athletic tradition at Stivers. Herman […]

In 1958 coach Joe Sullivan asked Ted if he would like to try gymnastics and quickly he became hooked. In 1959 he joined the Flying Tigers gymnastic team performing at UD basketball games, on WHIO-TV and in the Dayton Childrens Parades. In 1960 in his first Dayton City Meet Ted […]

An excellent all-around athlete in football, basketball and baseball, Dale earned 7 varsity letters and as a senior he was Co-Captain of the football and basketball teams. In 1954 Stivers ended Chaminade’s 49 straight game winning streak in football against city schools. Keiter scored two touchdowns and was stopped inches […]

John and Jim Lord were twin brothers who transferred to Stivers for their senior year and made an immediate impact on the Tigers football team. Both had been outstanding athletes at Mount Vernon High School having been named to their All-Conference team as juniors. They came to Stivers because their […]

Marvin Farrier was an outstanding athlete who excelled in football and basketball at Stivers High School. Marv was an excellent offensive and defensive end and the captain of the 1927 football team. He earned All-City honors after his senior season. Marvin had an outstanding high school career in basketball at […]

Jim Fiorita was an outstanding athlete at Stivers. He was a star on the football and baseball teams, earning 6 varsity letters in his high school career. Jim was “All-City” as a halfback during the 1937 football season and teamed with Bernard “Beno” Keiter on this select group of footballers […]

Orrie Rolfe earned 7 varsity letters at Stivers with 3 letters in football and 4 letters in track. He was an excellent football player as a guard in his sophomore and halfback in his junior and senior years. Orrie was selected “Player of the Week” 3 times during his Stivers […]

K (his first name really is K without a period) earned 3 varsity letters each in football and track. He was an excellent blocker and hard nosed tackler who contributed greatly to 2 championship teams in his 4 years of football at Stivers. The Tiger freshman football team won the […]

Shirley Turvey Griffith was an outstanding athlete in an era when high schools nationally did not offer interscholastic athletic programs to female students. She excelled in tennis, volleyball, basketball and field hockey at the college level as evidenced by her induction into the Ohio Wesleyan University Athletic Hall of Fame […]

Bobby Williams moved from Tennessee to Dayton for his senior year at Stivers and made an immediate impact on the Tiger football squad. Bobby had been All Conference on the Homestead High School team. Coach Jim Hanby recognized Bobby’s skills and installed him into the starting lineup. Bobby’s superior performance […]

Terry Thompson was an outstanding athlete who moved to Stivers High School from the Beavercreek School District his senior year. While at Beavercreek, Terry earned five letters. He also played on the Ohio Class B State baseball team his freshman year. Terry was one of three great athletes who moved […]

Patty Greger was an outstanding gymnast for coach Joe Sullivan. As a freshman she was the City of Dayton champion on the Trampoline. The next year she not only won the Gold medal on the Trampoline but also the Bronze medal on the Balance Beam. In 1962 Patty was named […]

Dick began his teaching and coaching career at Emerson Elementary School in 1958. The following year he moved to Stivers as assistant football and track coach to replace Joe Sullivan who had stepped down to concentrate on gymnastics and baseball. The building of Belmont High School in the late 1950’s […]

Sahara was one of Stivers most outstanding track athletes. She came from a basketball family that included her father Sylvester, 1973 Patterson High and 1979 Ohio Dominican College, brothers Shamier at Stivers in 2002 and Sylvester Jr., a 1999 Colonel White basketball player. At Stivers, Sahara ran the 100, 200 […]