Skyline’s Scorekeeper going strong for 42 years


By Taylor Kauffman

It takes all members of a team for one to be successful, and for the Skyline basketball programs, the team member that holds them all together is easy to go unnoticed.

“She is just a fixture around here,” Skyline Athletic Director Jim Brown said.

When you look up at the banners hanging in the Skyline gym one thing is the same across them all.

“I’ve been here for a very long time. I’ve been here for like 36 years, and Janet was here even before I got here,” Brown said.

The end of every season marks another chapter in Skyline basketball story, Janet Edge behind the scenes quietly filling the pages, one score book at a time.

“It’s special to me because I graduated from here myself and then I started teaching here after I got done with college and I’ve worked here ever since,” said Skyline scorekeeper Janet Edge.

“Just really enjoyed getting to know her in the last four years, my fourth year here. My first year here we were trying to feel each other out — how we operated. I just appreciate everything she does, because she makes our lives easier for all of us coaches. It just makes everything go so much smoother and we just appreciate her every year. I don’t give her enough praise that we need to but she’s amazing,” said Tigers head coach Tommy Egan.

As a Skyline alum herself, Janet’s been doing the book since 1979.

“The first year, I was a cheerleading sponsor, and the coach at that time went to high school with my brother in college, and he’s like, ‘come over here.’ I said, what do you want? and he’s like well I need you to keep score, and I said I don’t know how to keep score. He goes, well I’ll holler at you. I had to set a table away from the bench. So that’s how it started,” Edge said.

Every team has impacted Janet, and she has impacted them in return.

“All the kids love her so much. I think that’s the biggest thing for coaches as well,” said Brown.

“She’s kind of the boss around here, but she deserves to be because she’s amazing,” Egan said.

“They’re all really special. I’ve got to keep score for 17 state games, 14 for girls and three for boys so it’s been no special,” Edge said.

17 Final Fours and she’s hoping for a couple more this season.

How long does Edge plan on doing it?

“I don’t know. Coach Cheek tells me I can’t quit until he quits, so I’m telling him, you gotta hurry up, because I’m getting old,” Edge said.

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