His wife, Cyndi, is a Charlevoix native. I guess blood's not thicker than address. Cyndi's father, Ken, is the public address announcer at Charlevoix's home games. Her brother, Scott, is on the Charlevoix Board of Education. It's going to be interesting family-wise.
Powers is no stranger to regional settings.
In his three years as the girls coach, Powers twice took Charlevoix to the regional finals. But this is foreign territory for Whittemore-Prescott, which is coming off its first district title in 35 years. We're talking the mid-60s, the Lyndon Johnson years. That's a long wait to win a district. Wrestling is the winter sport here.