Coach Tim Dade
Coaches:  Defensive Coordinator
Years on Blue Springs staff: 8
Coach Tim Dade is beginning his ninth year in the Blue Springs School District, all having been spent as a physical education instructor at Sunny Vale Middle School. After graduating from Neveda High School in 1971, he went to Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) and earned his lifetime certificate in Physical Education and Health. He has spent 26 years teaching and coaching in the communities of Jasper High School, East Newton High School and Harrisonville high School before coming to Blue Springs.

Of his 34 years of coaching, he has been fortunate enough to have spent 14 years of that time as a head coach in both football and track & field. During the fall of 1981 and spring of 1982, he received his Masters in Physical Education at Pittsburg State University.

His family consists of his wife Pat, who also teaches in the Blue Springs School District as a Literacy Coach, and daughters Brecklyn Findley and Jillian Littlejohn. Brecklyn is a nurse at Children's Mercy Hospital and Jillian is a kindergarten teacher at Cordell-Mason Elementary in Blue Springs. During his free time he enjoy's spending time with his family, especially his grandson Luke.

Tim's duties include serving as defensive coordinator and working with the linebackers in football. Coach Dade also coaches the Long and Triple Jump events at Sunny Vale Middle School during the Track season.

Coach Dave Podjenski
Coaches:  Defensive Line
Years on Blue Springs staff: 20
Coach David Podjenski has been teaching in the Blue Springs School District for 19 years. He started at the 9-10 building, which is now the Freshmen Center, teaching geography and coaching football and track. When the district built the new high school, he was assigned to Blue Springs High School and began teaching Math. He continued coaching football and track.
    Coach Podjenski grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. He attended Rockhurst College where he received his B.A. in Education with certification to teach Social Studies and Physical Education. After graduation he took a job with California R-5 School District in California, MO as a social studies teacher and coach of football, basketball and track. After teaching and coaching for 3 years, he moved back to Omaha and attended the University of Nebraska-Omaha. There he obtained his Math teaching degree. He then moved to Sedalia and spent a year teaching for the Smithton R-4 district as a Math teacher and girls basketball coach. After the year a Smithton, he was hired to teach at Blue Springs. While teaching in Blue Springs, he furthered his education by attending UMKC to obtain his masters in Curriculum and Instruction and UCM to get his specialist in Administration.
    While attending the University of Nebraska he met his wife Becky. They have been married for 20 years, and have 5 children. Ryan 17, Nathan 15, Andrew 13, Marybeth 10 and Benjamin 7.
    Coach Podjenski has coached football at BSHS for 19 years. He has coached at all levels and on both sides of the ball. He is currently a Defensive Line coach and teaches Algebra A, Trigonometry, and Advanced Algebra.

Coach Nolan Hochgrebe
Coaches: Defensive Line
Years on Blue Springs staff: 3

Coach Nolan Hochgrebe is beginning his 4th year coaching football at BSHS and his 9th year overall. His previous experiences include time as an assistant at Lutheran High School South in St. Louis and at Sunny Vale Middle School in Blue Springs before joining the BSHS staff.

Coach Hochgrebe grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Lutheran High South. He earned his teaching degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in ‘03 and his master’s degree through the MU Teaching Fellowship program in ‘04. He taught social studies for a year at the Freshman Center, followed by 4 years at Sunny Vale, before returning to the Freshman Center in ‘08.

Coach Hochgrebe and his wife, Carrie, were married in May ‘03. Carrie, also a St. Louis native and Lutheran South/Mizzou graduate, is a math teacher at the Freshman Center. This past April, the couple welcomed their first child with the birth of their daughter, Taya.

This season, Coach Hochgrebe’s responsibilities include working with the defensive line and outside linebackers, as well as helping with the technology aspects of the football program.

Coach Tim McElligott
Coaches:  Freshmen Defensive Coordinator
Years on Blue Springs staff: 13
Coach Tim McElligott is married to Tracey and has a 8 year old daughter named Keely and an 1 year old son named Conor. He graduated from Truman High School in 1989 and then attended CMSU where he graduated in 1994 with a BSE in Social Studies 9-12. He then attended Webster University where he received his MSE in Curriculum/ Education. Coach McElligott has been teaching 16 years overall. He taught at William Chrisman the Spring of 1994, from 1994-1996 he taught in Oak Grove High School, from 1996-1997 he taught at William Chrisman High School and from 1997 to present he has taught at Blue Springs High School. Coach McElligott teaches and 11/12 grade sociology.
    Coach McElligott's coaching experience: Assistant Head Coach Baseball William Chrisman High School in 1994; Assistant Baseball coach at Oak Grove High School from 1994-1996; Assistant Head Baseball Coach at William Chrisman from 1996-1997; 9th grade football coach at BSHS 1997 to present; Assistant Baseball Coach from 1997-2007; Assistant Head baseball coach at BSHS 2007 to present.