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Ordman has embraced challenges all his life
Stu Ordman began going to state basketball tournaments in 1973 when he was the co-captain of the team at New Trier East High School that reached the state finals in Illinois.
He won two state titles as the girls basketball coach at Leavenworth High School in Kansas in 1988 and '89, and he reached the semifinals of the boys state tournament in Kansas when he was coaching at Shawnee Mission Northwest.
Now he's got Cedar Rapids Jefferson in the Class 4A boys state tournament for the third straight year and for the fourth time since he began coaching the J-Hawks in 1997.
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