Dave Krider: High School Sports Pioneer

About the Book

This book is the story of how God has taken the life of a young writer from Elkhart, Ind., and blessed him beyond his wildest dreams. God put a desire into Dave Krider's heart to seek out the greatest high school athletes in the country and write about them - even though there were no national outlets for prep sports at the time. This is a story of following a path that God set out for him to live a Christian life and to help raise prep sports to the unprecedented level they have reached today.  

About the Author

Dave Krider was born in Elkhart, Ind., on June 30, 1939 and has lived in LaPorte, Ind., since 1965. He has covered high school sports since 1961. He was the first newspaperman to be inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame and the first high school writer to make the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame.  An Indiana University journalism school graduate, Dave has written for Letterman Magazine (5 years), Basketball Weekly and Basketball Times (total of 17 years), Street & Smith's Basketball Yearbook (21 years), USA Today (18 years) and currently works for Sports Illustrated. He and his wife, Lois, sponsor the LaPorte High Fellowship of Christian Athletes and are members of Countryside Christian Church in Michigan City, Ind.