Bear River Bears softball. Photo by Lorene Hale GARLAND – Of all the accomplishments in sports, the most validating is undoubtedly becoming league champion, earning the right to hoist a trophy and craft a championship ring to keep as a reminder of that achievement. Most never fulfil that goal. Some are able, even fewer manage on multiple occasions. Calvin Bingham Calvin Bingham has done it 11 times. In 24 years at the helm of the Bear River softball team, Bingham has led his team to 505 total wins and 11 Utah state softball championships. “Kinda unbelievable isn’t it?” Bingham said in an interview on the Full Court Press on 106.9 FM, 1390 AM, The FAN. In all of those years as coach, Bingham never had a losing season. Well, almost never. As his son dutifully reminds him, that COVID-19 season was cut short just after the Bears had dropped their season opener to Snow Canyon. So that’s one 0-1 “losing season” to 23 years with a winning record, technically speaking. But just prior to the start of the 2023 playoffs, Bingham met with the school’s principal, AJ Gilmore, and informed him that he planned on retiring at the end of