Hall of Fame
An alumnus of NEO Ray Judkins played for Red Robertson at NEO in 1955 -56. He was also a starter for the NEO baseball team and an AAU Wrestler. Judkins later played football at Northeastern State University where he was a member of NSU’s 1958 National Championship team. Judkins began NEO’s first wrestling program in 1975.Under his direction as coach the Golden Norse wrestling program experienced 2 Regional championships, 2 conference titles and a number of invitational tournament championships. Under Judkins’ tutelage from 1981- 1985 the Norseman experienced 36 wins and 19 losses and 2 ties in collegiate matches. In his 6 years of coaching wrestling at NEO Judkins produced 12 NJCAA All-Americans and was named regional coach of the year.
