8/4/2015
Speaking of Linfield College
Wildcat sports, the last name of “Lever” and Linfield go together like two peas
in a pod.
The Lever family patriarch
is Henry W. Lever (1883-1980), a Linfield Athletics Hall of Famer, who served
as a Linfield athletic director (1930-1949) and coached a variety of sports
starting in 1930 and ending in 1947.
As this is written, Margaret
Lever (see Linfield Sports Info photo), a great-granddaughter of Henry and Marguerite Lever, is a member
of the Linfield Lacrosse team.
A 2013 Canby, Ore., High School
grad, her Linfield Lacrosse player biography for the 2014-2015 academic year
says:
Newcomer to Wildcats lacrosse…played soccer, tennis, and basketball at
Canby High School…earned five letters and ten-sport athlete award…tennis team
captain and top singles player as a senior, top doubles player as a
junior…helped 2012 soccer team to highest number of wins and most playoff
successes in program history as a senior.
A Canby Herald article
(4/24/2013 or 5/27/2013) headlined "Girls tennis: Canby's Margaret Lever to
continue family tradition at Linfield" includes, “Margaret Lever can’t
help her attraction to Linfield College. Running along the west side of the
school’s football stadium in McMinnville is Lever Street, which is named after
her great-grandfather Henry. An athletic director and multi-sport coach there
in the 1930s and 1940s, he established a legacy that Margaret plans to continue
more than eight decades later.”
(With this story see Wildcatville photos taken 8/4/2015
of a Lever Street sign and a near Memorial Stadium plaque created in 1961 when
McMinnville’s Stadium Avenue was renamed Lever Avenue. It’s now called Lever
Street.)
In the Aug. 7, 2013, Canby
Herald in an article headlined, “College
sports: Members of Canby's Class of 2013 continue athletic careers.” It says:
Margaret Lever | (Canby Women’s tennis | Linfield
Location:
McMinnville, Ore.
Conference: Northwest
Conference
Level: Division III
At Canby: Margaret
Lever was a top singles player during her tenure with the Cougars and also
played on the girls’ soccer team. She continues a long family legacy at
Linfield College.
…………
She is the granddaughter of
Daniel
Deforest Lever, the youngest son of Henry and Marguerite Lever. Her father is Dan Lever (Daniel Dean Lever)
and her brother is Dan Lever, a 2009 Linfield grad and former Linfield football
player, now an assistant football coach at California’s Santa Barbara City
College (SBCC). His coaching bio info as of 8/4/2015:
Dan enters his second season as offensive line coach and
run game coordinator for the Vaqueros. He brings experience as a high school
head coach, Division II assistant, and Division III assistant. Before joining
the staff at SBCC, he was the offensive line coach at the University of Puget
Sound for the 2013 season. Lever previously coached at Southeastern Oklahoma
State for the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
In addition to coaching an All-American tight end, Lever earned his Master’s in Sports Studies and Athletic Administration from Southeastern in the fall of 2012. Prior to the 2011 season, Lever served as the head coach at Gervais High in Oregon.
In addition to coaching an All-American tight end, Lever earned his Master’s in Sports Studies and Athletic Administration from Southeastern in the fall of 2012. Prior to the 2011 season, Lever served as the head coach at Gervais High in Oregon.
A 2009 graduate of Linfield College, Lever majored in
health and physical education where he also lettered three times for the Wildcats.
While at Linfield, Dan was honored as the 2007 physical education major of the
year. Dan follows in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great
grandfather as a 4th generation educator and coach.
Coach Lever is married to Corinne Lever of Boise, Idaho.
Coach Lever is married to Corinne Lever of Boise, Idaho.
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