The Midland Empire Conference’s Bishop LeBlond Eagles have hired Class of 2011 alum Jackie Fore (Ziesel) as the new Head Coach of the girl’s basketball program. Fore, before becoming a four-year letter winner with the women’s basketball program at Benedictine College (Atchison, Kansas), was a three-sport athlete (basketball, track and field, volleyball) at LeBlond, earning All-State status in all three.
Fore will be taking over an Eagles program that hit hard times in 2016-2017, with LeBlond’s 4 win and 19 loss season ending in a 54-12 district quarterfinal loss to eventual champion Trenton on Monday, February 20th.
Jackie Fore’s father is long-time Benton (St. Joseph) High School Athletic Director Mike Ziesel, who began his coaching career at LeBlond in the mid-1970s, including as an assistant to John Bizal in 1977, when the Eagles when their only boys basketball state title.
