Two-time basketball state champion
Former Guthrie and Chandler basketball coach Bob Griffin will be inducted into the Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame this weekend.
The patriarch of a family of coaches, Griffin will be inducted at a banquet at the Southern Hills Marriott Hotel in Tulsa on Saturday night.
Griffin coached from 1955 to 1986, including 14 years at Guthrie, where his teams appeared in three consecutive Class 3A championship games. They were runnerup in 1967 and won the state championship in 1968 and 1969.
His teams won 24 conference championships, including four at Chandler, and he was the Oklahoma basketball coach of the year in 1960. He was the Journal coach of the year in 1969, was inducted into the Guthrie Hall of Fame in 1993 and was inducted into the Oklahoma Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.
Griffin passed along the coaching genes to his family. His son David, is the softball coach at Perkins and has been inducted into the fastpitch and slowpitch Halls of Fame. His daughter, Cynthia Snider, is the cheer coach at Chandler and has been the coach of the year and All-State coach. His grandson, Chance Griffin, is the softball coach at North Rock Creek, where he coached the Lady Cougars to a state championship in their first year of competitive eligibility.
Also inducted into the Hall of Fame this year are Phil Barnes, Duncan; Rocky Clarke, Washington; H.O. Estes, Lindsay; Philip Koons, Ringling; Larry McBroom, Ada; Brent Payne, Claremore; Tom Redding, Collinsville; Greg Werner, Poteau; and Steve Dunlap, Union, for distinguished service.