Given Lapwai basketball’s deep-rooted ties to the Nez Perce Tribe, casual acquaintances have often assumed Sobotta had Native American blood. He didn’t. His father had grown up in Wisconsin and was of ...

Seth was one of Sobotta’s teammates on Lapwai High’s state championship team in 1956. Decades later, as Lapwai school superintendent, Sobotta laid the groundwork for the program’s rejuvenation by ...