{"id":1030,"date":"2020-04-09T17:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:00:52","slug":"georgetown-alum-cheatham-retires-as-winningest-ihsaa-girls-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown alum Cheatham retires as winningest IHSAA girls basketball coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"13c398acb195b4bd84e993cb56669758\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Above Post Ad 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:638px;height:70px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4024319323781499\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8631827568\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Georgetown Athletics<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Jenny Elder, Sports Information Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Georgetown College alumnus Donna Cheatham (&#8217;67) is hanging up her clipboard and whistle. The three-sport Tiger athlete, who went on to teach and coach in Indiana, announced Monday she is retiring as the most successful girls&#8217; high school basketball coach in the state. She finished her 46-illustratious years with a 730-274 mark. More than 500 of those wins came on the sidelines for Scottsburg High School \u2013 a program she helped to start in the early 70s.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the 2002 GC Athletic Hall of Fame Class, Cheatham directed her teams to 21 sectional titles, 11 region titles, two state runner-up finishes and two state titles. Her 1989 and 1990 SHS teams were ranked nationally in the Top 15.<\/p>\n<p>She coached eight Indiana All-Stars and one Miss Basketball (Renee Westmoreland, &#8217;89). Cheatham was also two-time All-Star team coach. Along with her 2002 Tiger athletic induction, she is a 2003 Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame inductee.<\/p>\n<p>While her days on the sidelines are over, she may continue to teach part-time and looks forward to cheering on SHS.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgetown Athletics Jenny Elder, Sports Information Director Georgetown College alumnus Donna Cheatham (&#8217;67) is hanging up her clipboard and whistle. The three-sport Tiger athlete, who went<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,67,23],"tags":[88,301,302,303],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgetown","category-high-school","category-top-news","tag-basketball","tag-donna-cheatham","tag-georgetowns","tag-scottsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentuckysports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}