Rick Olds - Class of 2005

(Iron Mountain)

A coach in three sports at Iron Mountain High School, Rick Olds spent 17 years as the school's head boys basketball coach (274-120).  The Mountaineers won 12 Class C district titles and four regional titles in his tenure, reaching the state semifinals in 1993 and 1994.  He was a four-time U.P.  Class C coach of the year.  He spent 25 years coaching football at the freshmen and j.v.  levels and was head track coach (1979-94), winning four U.P.  Class C titles.  He was a four-year track letterman at Marquette John D.  Pierce High School and won the U.P.  100 and 220 yard dashes in 1958.  He was also a three-year letterman in football and basketball.  He was a charter member of The Marquette Iron Rangers semi-pro hockey team in 1964.