You probably saw that we lost the great Bernie Saggau recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A tribute from the IHSAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NFHS did a comprehensive job in memorializing him here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Personally, I can say whenever Mr. Saggau came to speak at a DMOA event, there’s a reason we’d have a standing-room-only crowd: the man had great passion for high school athletics and did his best to deliver his heart-felt message with that same fire and enthusiasm. Beyond just a great leader and administrator for so many years, look up his accomplishments as an official and a four-sport athlete before that. Highly impressive, yet humble and grounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Feel free to post your own memories below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You probably saw that we lost the great Bernie Saggau recently. A tribute from the IHSAA. The NFHS did a comprehensive job in memorializing him here. Personally, I can say whenever Mr. Saggau came to speak at a DMOA event, there’s a reason we’d have a standing-room-only crowd: the man had great passion for high… Read More »Remembering Bernie Saggau<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,32,22],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fb-rules","tag-memorial","tag-officiating-legends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Bernie-Saggau.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}