INDIANAPOLIS Warren Central High School is paying tribute to the late Larry Willen, a beloved coach and teacher whose influence spanned more than five decades in MSD Warren Township.

Willen, who died in 2019, served as a fixture in the Warriors athletic program, helping lead all nine of Warren Centrals state football championship teams and guiding four track and field squads to state titles from the mid-1980s through the early 2000s.

Beyond the sidelines, Willen taught at the school for nearly four decades, shaping the lives of countless students with a philosophy centered on the belief that everybody has value.

His calling was to find that and help young people develop it, Scott Willen, Larrys son said. When wed ask him about his favorite team, it was always the one he was coaching at

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