Tot Workman, one of the toughest and funniest coaches in Arizona high school history, still coached up until Monday in a wheelchair.
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Workman led Eagar Round Valley to back-to-back 12-0 state championship seasons in 1979 and 1980. His 1985 team tied Snowflake 21-21 for the state title, before the Arizona Interscholastic Association went to tie-breakers for state finals. He was 52 when he retired as a head football coach. At that point, he won more games than any coach in Arizona. He fought to get the small-school all-star football game in Arizona.
When he was the AD at Ganado, Workman hired a coach for track but Tot still was out there leading the team.Tot Workman was inducted into the Arizona High School Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame in 1990, three years before his last football season as head coach at Round Valley. In 1989, he was inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame. And 10 years later, into the National Hall of Fame.
Workman's success led to the building of the first high school domed football stadium in the country in the early 1990s. "He was supposed to have died 13 years ago," Ty said of his dad."He took his chemo and called it 'the breakfast of champions.' The people loved him where he'd go in. He'd say, 'Hey, I'm here for my breakfast of champions."
Sherwood said Workman once made them run 65 100-yard sprints after overhearing somebody say a curse word under his breath.
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