'His mark on girls basketball in Minnesota will live on forever.

'My heart sunk when I received a text from a good friend saying Myron passed away,' Webbles said. It was the start of a legendary career.Īnne (Breland) Webbles, a former star player at Lourdes who graduated in 2006 and played on state title teams in 20, was crushed by the news of Glass' passing. All of that was earlier than the public schools were doing it.'Īfter Sherman led Lourdes to a string of success, and then Jo Beber did the same after him, Glass took over as the Eagles' girls basketball head coach in 1983. (Glass and Sherman) wanted uniforms and gym time for their girls team. That was even before the Minnesota State High School League had it as a sport. 'I was a fledgling athletic director at the time and those guys came to me wanting to put together a girls basketball team. 'What sticks out most to me is how much Myron did for girls athletics in the state, with him and Dick Sherman doing what they did,' Peters said. Girls basketball was born at Lourdes one year later, led by original coach Dick Sherman.įormer longtime Lourdes Activities Director Marv Peters says that Glass' pioneering of girls sports is his greatest legacy. 'So I told them, ‘Let’s have a track team.’ The next day, I had 70 of them show up for (practice).' “They asked me why they can’t have sports,' said Glass, a longtime math teacher at Lourdes. In an interview done with the Post Bulletin in March of 2018, Glass noted that a number of Lourdes girls entered his classroom one day in 1970, incredulous that they weren’t being offered organized sports. It was Glass who helped get girls sports off the ground at Lourdes. Glass was inducted into the Minnesota High School Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018, as well as countless other halls of fame through the years. That included winning all eight of the state championship games it reached and advancing to the state tournament 15 times, both Minnesota records when he retired. In his 31 years as Lourdes' girls basketball coach, a span that ended with his retirement in 2014, the Minneapolis native finished with a record of 719-143. Glass was an icon not only in Rochester, but the state. That was the day that Lourdes Hall of Fame girls basketball coach Myron Glass was found dead in his home, having died from natural causes. 22, 2022, the most winning Rochester high school coach ever, was taken from this earth.

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