After 15 years of serving as the football team physician for his alma matter, Monroe High School, Dr. Phillip Clevenger walked away thinking that he was completely done being on the sidelines for high school football games.

Then two years later, in 1999, his son Drew became head coach at St. Ansgar High School. And just like that, he was back in the game.

During halftime festivities of the Class 2A boys’ state championship basketball game March 8 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, he was honored by the Iowa High School Athletic Association with the Sports Medicine Award.