Anissa Hodges
| Anissa Hodges | ||||
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| Sex | F | |||
| Birth name | Anissa Peterson | |||
| Birth date | 1966 | |||
| Birth place | Spearfish Lake | |||
| Spouse | Dean Hodges | |||
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Anissa Peterson Hodges is a native of Spearfish Lake and was born in 1966, a contemporary of Brandy Evachevski. Like her, she was a star basketball player and a 12 letter athlete. She married Dean Hodges right after graduating High School and, in her words "averaged a child every other year since". (Facing the Storm, Epilogue) Her second eldest is Sarah.
Anissa was recruited sometime around 1998 by Mike McMahon as the sportswriter for the Record-Herald newspaper, since she was attending all of the varsity sports games anyway. Her writing in her column, Marlin Sport Talk has improved from practice in subsequent years.
Anissa was an instant supporter of Brandy's placement as basketball coach in the book Facing the Storm and, as could be expected, she was present at the Spearfish Lake Lady Marlin's first basketball game of the season and witnessed their first win in years.
By August 2010 Anissa was a member of the Spearfish County School Board and wanted to get rid of football coach Jerome Weilfahrt. She joined John Archer and Dennis Bergen boycotting a number of board eetings so that Charles DeRidder's contract could not be renewedBOF1 in exchange for a promise to get rid of Weilfahrt.BOF29
She told the new football coaches what they had to work with among the sophomores who had suddenly become the varsity squad.BOF29
She was in her usual place in the press booth with Paul Braxton for the Marlins first match of 2010, against Coldwater Icebergs, adding color to the radio commentary.BOF33
