Poulsbo – On the dozen people and an honored team on Saturday at the Kiana Lodge while the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame welcomed its 2024 inducted class, nobody celebrated more birthdays than Rod Scheyer. The 1959 graduate of East High in Bremerton and the former football player of the University of Washington is still one thing or two about the humming of a crowd.
“When I grew up just after the war – it was the Second World War, not the First World War,” said Scheyer with a little laugh, “things were quite different from those when I got my diploma in studies secondary. “
Something that has not changed, in Scheyer’s eyes, is the lasting imprint that sports can leave on people. This was obvious during the 36th annual banquet on Saturday organized by the Kitsap Athletic round table.
“It’s just a wonderful gathering. It is impressive to see all the young people who present themselves in this thing,” said Scheyer, who played four sports in high school and whose father, Dwight, has entered the temple of Fame in 2008. “Really makes me, as I get older and I am older – and I’m in mid -years 80 now – it makes me proud of what athletics can do and help people grow up .
Here is a list of all the enthronement, starting with the three winners:
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Rex Brown Distinguished Service Award was handed over to Tom Myers family For their dedication to the Kitsap bowling community thanks to their property from Hi-Joy Bowl in Port Orchard and All Star Lanes in Silverdale. They have been involved with Hi-Joy since 1970 and opened All Star in 1985, before selling it in 2023.
The Dick Todd officials of officials has been deposited with a long -standing official in athletics Deanna Dowellof which the husband Lane was the first recipient of the Prize. Marty Osborn, enthroned in 2008, accepted the prize on behalf of the Dowells, which could not attend the ceremony.
John Sitton won the Lifetime Achievement Award for its years of contributions as anhlete, director of coach and broadcaster. The West High graduate in 1968 resulted for more than 38 years, mainly at the Central Kitsap High School in basketball and Fastpitch. He spent time as a sports director of cougars.
North Mason’s Softball Fastpitch team 2007 Entered the temple of renown with state championship references. The Bulldogs won the class 2A title with a global record of 23-2. North Mason won a pair of nine-round games with a round and nine sleeves before winning a 5-3 victory against Sequim and a 3-0 victory against Centralia to win the championship. The coach of the formors, Paula Grande, attended the ceremony with half a dozen of his players in the 2007 team, including Emily (Anderson) Addis.
“When I think about this season, I remember the long exhausting practices, sometimes more than three hours, Paula? Maybe four, five? I don’t know,” said Addis with a smile. “Sometimes two a day. And the bus roads at the end of the evening and the games that really tested our limits. But more than the victories, what stands out is the way we can together as a family . “
Family, friends and colleagues at the end Dave Snyder Gathered to remember the career of the longtime football and athletics coach of North Kitsap, who died last year. The local pastor and the assistant football coach of the Vikings, Peter Blue, spoke on behalf of Snyder, delivering a touching speech that made more than the eyes of the participants cry.
“Dave was an irreplaceable thread in the fabric that makes up our community here in Kitsap,” said Blue. “His love for others, whether student, athlete, coach, teammate, competitor or opposing coach, was always exposed. Those of us who had the blessing of having it in our lives were never the same Because of his kindness, encouragement and love.
There was no shortage of multi-sport athletes celebrated on Saturday, including the 1986 North Mason graduate Mark KnowlesWho won the honors of the first team of all the basketball, football, football and golf leagues. Knowles, a graduate of WSU, has been working as a PGA golf professional since 1997 and has spent more than two decades as a basketball arbitrator.
Rachel DAVERPORTA central kitsap graduate in 1996, excelled in Fastpitch, basketball and volleyball with cougars. After being appointed the female athlete of the year Kitsap Sun as a senior, she played four years of fastpitch at the University of Mississippi. Davenport led to the Central Kitsap, Olympic and Klahowya while pursuing a career in education; She is now the superintendent of the school district of North Kitsap.
Like Davenport, a graduate of his other central kitsap Jackie Miller (2001) won several honors in Fastpitch and volleyball, helping the cougars third to the state as a junior. Later, she played California State University, Stanislaus and California State University, Dominguez Hills.
The struggle is the sport where the graduate of Kingston 2014 secondary school Bobby Reece III made its biggest brand as a quadruple champion of the state 2A. He ended his career with the Buccaneers with 149 victories and only two defeats. Reece also a quarter of Kingston’s football team has a quarter-rear team at the state tournament in 2012 and 2013.
KC FossumA graduate of North Kitsap 2007 who participated in volleyball and athletics with the Vikings, became a fully American volleyball player at Olympic College and led the Rangers to a finalist conference in 2012. She also played Club volleyball in northern Arizona University University and Duke.
TLENNA REE IVES was inducted as a multi-sport art. The member of the Tribu Gamble Sea Wellam played basketball at the North Kitsap and the Olympic College, winning the title NWAC with the Rangers in 1996. In his post-college career, Ives ended two Ironman Triathlons of 140, 6 Miles (2011, 2012) and participated in the Boston marathon in 2016.
The former editor -in -chief of Kitsap Sun Sports and member of the Hall of Fame, Chuck Stark, underlined the achievements of 1968 West High Grad Frank Jacksonwho could not attend the ceremony. Baseball and exceptional football player at high school, Jackson has become a fully American baseball player in WSU. He also won two state -based championship baseball titles as a coach in Washougal high school.