After sports in southern California high schools have been covered since 1976, when there is an incitement in the Hall of Famous, this makes me come back in time when they were in adolescence showing signs of early greatness before people knew their names.
the The city department is held the latest incitement in the celebrity hall Sunday, so let me present some memories of many of them.
It is in 1999. Tofe Troy Starr, TAFT Football Coach, stands alongside the novice Varsity game centers and refers to a student reception called Steve Smith, which is very small to play on Varsity. Star insists that the child will be visible. TAFT was already in the spotlight, as the 400 -meter Olympics Championship produced in 1992 Quincy WhatsApp, so the excitement is now returning.
Star said of Smith: “I have never seen anything like him,” Star said. “I fought to contain excitement. I only saw him making heinous plays hunting the ball, but outrageous blocks.”
Smith registered 27 declining as a student and safety in the JV team. He got a squash basketball because there was no era and immediately became the beginning.
“People come to the game and go,” said Derek Taylor, assistant basketball coach in 1999. “
The rest is the date. Smith, in three years of football, Set the state’s records by picking up 271 passes for 4,545 yards. He continued the starring role at the University of Southern California and the Super Bowl victory with the New York giants. In 2023 His TAFT JERSEY number has retired. Lebanon has gone to high school classes. He has long deserved to become the Famir Hall in the city section.
It is 1994, the first year for the El Camino Real Randy Wolf. I got to know the family well during my visit to his parents, James Juddy, in games. Suddenly, without warning, James died. I walk in El Camino Real and Randy is about to stadium. It stands on the hill with the playing of the national anthem. Tears flow on my face, think about what he feels with his father.
One of the left who flourished under pressure, wolf Two times at Dodger Stadium To connect the city section championship. By 1997, Randy and his older brother, Jimmy, The ambitious basement ruler was on their way to majors. Randy played with Peppperdine, then formulated in the second round by Velez Vezz. He appeared for the first time in the league in 1999 and played his last match in 2015, when he went 133-125.
It was very fun to watch, especially when he fought for his hometown team, The Dodgers, in 2007 and 2009.
Rigi Morris was one of the most influential basketball coaches in the history of the city department. In handicrafts, he was forced to fight against the tyrants of Crenshaw and coach Willie West, yet he found the way to be the holidays with small help from Dwayne Polee.
He was 1981 when Polly scored 43 points Handic arts led to a 82-69 victory over Crenshaw in the city championship game 14,123 in the sports arena. Crenshaw has won three consecutive titles until the wonderful Polly performance.
Then in 1988, after losing twice to Crinko, including in the 4-A Final, handicrafts won the first country championship in the state, Eliminate Crenshaw in regional qualifiers.
You have to remember those days of basketball in the city. The championship games will end at approximately 11:30 pm in the sport square and watch the fans interact and they were unforgettable.
Morris put himself in the middle of all events and all the greatness, then he passed through the training genes to his son, Rege Junior, on his way to his training career in the celebrity Hall.
Verfax was this coach, Steve Miller, who was wearing John Travolta -like clothes from the 1977 movie “Saturday night fever.” Miller went to the University of California in Los Angeles when John Wooden was training and even training games for him. Before there was an hour of shot, he had the audacity to make his team carry the ball for long periods of time without trying to shot. It was the first half of a match against Luke 4-2.
The city championships continued in Verfax and northern Hollywood. Dana Jones, his star player, sCored 29 points and was 29 rebounds In 1990 City 3-A Final for the Northern Hollywood against Freemon.
The players wanted North Hollywood to the extent that there was a joke that the school zoo program was full of basketball players instead of future doctors or veterinarians. He produced one doctor who was a basketball player. The Golf North Hollywood team also led girls to the city title, and trained the triple jump for the track team. There is nothing he could not train.
Ryan Brown was beaten after being hit in Granada Hills Hi. The highs were competing in the strongest league in the city section, and the West Valley League, which was dominated by Shatusworth and Al Kamino Real, so Brown was sometimes overlooked.
However, he continued to find ways to separate, including reaching the home at the Dodger Stadium in the 2002 City Final.
Brown succeeded at every higher level, first in Miami, then with Milwaukee Breweers, who won the most valuable national league award in the league for the year 2011.
Lori Healy, then known as Lori Romero, was the first dominant jug of Softball Power El Camino Real. In 1983 and 1984, I went 34-1 with nine counter and 23 stops.
Then she became a private coach, which helped many others become great jugs. Then she became a mother, and her son, Ryon, was a star in Krisby and reached the major championships.
In 2009, Rion admitted that he was skeptical of his mother’s sports achievements. He said, “I was always exposed to her,” My mom, she was never good. “One day, I took out these articles from behind a day. I was very impressed. It was legitimate. It was the real deal. “
Welcome to the Celebrity Hall of the City Department for all who are recruited.
