GREG HAFNER

Inducted 2024

Greg Hafner

Mr. Hafner has been successful in multiple roles as a coach and administrator, but spent most of his professional career at Frontenac USD 249. Hafner was the head football coach for the Raiders from 1981-1988, and superintendent from 1989 until his retirement in 2006.

While on the sidelines at Frontenac, Hafner led the program to three conference titles and two state championship game appearances, while also coaching in two Kansas Shrine Bowls. 

Hafner, a native of Iowa has been inducted in the William Penn Athletics Hall of Fame for his time as an athlete. He has an extensive academic profile, earning his masters in physical education in 1979 and his Educational Specialist degree in administration in 1986, both from Pittsburg State.

Hafner also served as the athletic director at his alma mater, William Penn University in Iowa, from 2007 to 2017 after his retirement in Kansas. Much of the successful growth Frontenac schools experienced in the 1990s and early 2000s was under the leadership of Mr. Hafner.