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1965–2026 · the school athletics site and the Tribune, January–February 2026; Sports Players; the IHSAA wrestling record
A complete fifteen-name football succession stands in no carrier reached — but its modern spine now prints whole and dated, and the honest statement of what a complete succession would require is part of the article. Football's succession, as far as the record reaches, in order: Will Hostrawser — hired a little over ten years before the school's August 2025 preview, head coach through the 2022 season, 79-33 in ten years, sectional titles 2017 and 2021, the 2022 HNAC title, then athletic director, in which seat he confirmed his successor's resignation and, fifteen years into the directorship, announced his own retirement at the end of 2025–26 (Tribune, July 2026 report of the Amor succession); Jeff Kaiser — elevated from defensive coordinator in 2023, 25-13 in three seasons (2023–2025), two sectional titles (one Class 2A, one Class 1A in 2025), resigned 9 January 2026, confirmed at the board meeting of 12 January 2026 (Tribune); Matt Thacker — hired 9 February 2026, announced 10 February 2026 as the school's 15th head football coach, succeeding Kaiser by the school's own statement, arriving with eight seasons as a head coach at Fairfield (2018–23) and Wawasee (2024–25), a combined 32-50, no sectional crown as a head coach, his best season 9-1 with the 2020 Falcons (Tribune). That Thacker is the fifteenth proves fourteen predecessors; the carriers reached name, in order, only the last three, and the twelve before Hostrawser bank as a named gap whose settler is the school athletics archive and the 1965-era-to-2012 yearbooks read whole. No complete succession for any other LaVille sport stands in any carrier reached either — basketball's named heads in the current record are of the present tense (the girls' head coach standing also as the incoming athletic director in 2026 reports) — and the gap prints for all sports, not football alone. The defining players then print at the size the team leg can honestly carry, one by one, at pointer-plus to their owning file: James Bettcher (Class of 1997) — the lineman formed here who became the school's one athlete of national record: two-time NAIA Coaches All-American at Saint Francis, its Hall of Fame 2012, then the coaching course of the famous-people file (Sports Players lk-sports-bettcher); Alex Cartwright (Class of 2019) — the face of the wrestling record: three-time sectional champion, regional and semistate crowns as a senior, state runner-up at 285 pounds on 16 February 2019, 32-1, beaten 3-2 in the final — a runner-up, never promoted (lk-sports-cartwright). The full rosters of the checklist's pattern stand in no carrier reached for any LaVille team; they bank as a named gap on the school athletics archive and the yearbooks, and no roster is reconstructed here from game reports.