HVCC coaching great Paul Bishop excelled wearing many hats

Bishop guided the Vikings to the 1993 NJCAA women's basketball national championship with a roster that included All-American Christy Squires, a former Hoosic Valley star.

"We never, ever saw him without a cowboy hat on," said Squires, who's married with two sons with a horse farm in Stillwater. "He was from North Carolina, but I don't know if he ever set his butt on the back of a horse."