Northeast Kansas Nighthawks Homeschool Athletics
Christian Sports Programs & Activities for Homeschool Families in Northeast Kansas
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Primary Contacts
Please contact one of our Sports Coordinators or our Athletic Director if you have questions about homeschool sports opportunities with NEK Nighthawks.
Steve has served as an athletic director for homeschool sports organizations since 2010. In that role, he has also served in the leadership of the Metro Christian Athletic Association league including two years as league President. Steve is currently an assistant coach for high school girls’ basketball and high school girls’ soccer. He was previously head coach for the boys’ soccer team for eight years.
Coach Holloway started coaching girls’ basketball in 2009. He coached JH girls for 7 years and then moved to high school girls in 2016. Coach Holloway’s teams have competed in league, regional, and national homeschool tournaments. His high school teams have competed in KSHSAA tournaments every year as well. Coach Holloway’s passion to coach started at Stockton High School (Kansas). His high school coach inspired his interest in the game and was a lifetime mentor and friend. Coach Holloway also has been the basketball sports coordinator since 2010. As the coordinator, he schedules games and organizes the basketball season. Coach Holloway and his wife, Diana (DI), have homeschooled their 6 children since 2003, and had the opportunity to coach all 5 of their daughters.
Shawn grew up in central Nebraska playing football and basketball in public school and summer American Legion baseball. After meeting his wife Tonya at the University of Kansas they have homeschooled their four children K through 12th grade since 2003. He has been an assistant coach for middle school girls basketball, high school girls basketball, and high school boys basketball at various times since 2014. Since 2017 he has served as sport coordinator for Cross Country. Outside of homeschool athletics, Shawn has worked as a professional civil engineer in highway bridge design since 1995. He also takes turns contributing to musical worship at Lion & Lamb Church. His favorite hobby is canoeing local Northeast Kansas lakes and rivers.
Other Contacts
Tammy and her husband Jeff homeschooled their 9 children beginning in 1985. She has served
as the scorekeeper for various homeschool sports since 1997. She delights in watching our
young people grow in character and ability while being a part of a team. Many of her
grandchildren are now being homeschooled and she looks forward to attending their sports and activities.
Doug Longstaff has coached basketball with NEK since 2020.
Doug began coaching youth sports as a high school student in the early 1990s. He later spent many years as a head or assistant coach for dozens of recreational and competitive teams through Sunflower Soccer Association in Topeka. Doug also coached youth baseball for 13 years and served stints as both league director and tournament director for Sunrise Optimist Baseball. He has been a youth baseball umpire for over 30 years.
As a kid, Doug played a variety of sports and competed in football, wrestling, and baseball at Hayden High School. He was Centennial League Champion and 2nd Team All-City in in wrestling his senior year. Rare for a wrestler, Doug also played basketball competitively or recreationally for much of his life. He played third base and catcher for the baseball team at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, where he also competed on the club wrestling team and in intramural basketball.
Doug is Executive Director of Annual Giving at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. He and his wife, Anna, homeschooled all six of their children. They live in Shawnee County and attend St. Joseph Church.