Waldo F. Platte ’50
Retired teacher and coach
Kiester, Minn.
A native of Waverly, Platte was a three-sport letterwinner at Wartburg and later became a stand-out coach at Kiester, Minn., where he retired in 1983. He lettered four years in football and was a two-time All-Iowa Conference selection in 1949 and 1950. He also lettered three times in basketball and four times in track. He was the Iowa Conference two-mile champion for three years, missing only in his junior year, when he was injured. The two-mile school record he set in 1950 stood until 1963. He was named the college’s Outstanding Athlete in 1947 and won the Tofte Athletic Trophy in 1950. In 1974, he was the Alumni Coach of the Year after leading his Kiester High School track team to the Minnesota State Class B track title the year before. He also coached boys and girls basketball and football at Kiester and started the girls interscholastic basketball program there in 1974.