Special Contribution
Special Contribution
- Adaptive Sports
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- Boxing
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- Football
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- Masters Athlete
- Multi Sport
- Officiating
- Rodeo
- Schonely Lifetime Achievement Award
- Skiing
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- Special Contribution
- Swimming
- Table Tennis
- Teams
- Tennis
- Track and Field
- Trapshooting
- Volleyball
- Wrestling
Tom Jernstedt – Special Contribution to Sports
(November 24, 1944 – September 5, 2020) He is the man who made the madness. Tom Jernstedt has lived an incredible career in athletic management including helping to grow the NCAA basketball tournament into the spectacle it is today. Jernstedt came of age in Washington County farm country in the early 1960s. He was a..Read More
Dr. Bob Gill – Special Contribution to Sports
(November 2, 1936 – July 3, 2020) Bob Gill had an early love for football. But it wasn’t until his 1953 senior season at Jefferson High School that he excelled. As Tom DeSylvia’s first quarterback, Bob had an all-star season as the play caller and passer. It earned him a Shrine game selection and a..Read More
Columbia Sportswear, Tim & Gert Boyle – Special Contribution to Sports
It takes a tough mother to run a thriving business these days. Fortunately, Columbia Sportswear has one of those, with a son who is a pretty good wing man himself. Gert (March 6, 1924 – November 3, 2019) and Tim Boyle (born 1949) have made civic engagement and giving a huge part of the Columbia..Read More
Harry Merlo – Special Contributon to Sports
(March 5, 1925 – October 24, 2016) As a long time businessman & philanthropist in the Portland area, Harry Merlo has had a hand in the local sports world on high school, collegiate, and professional levels. With specific ties to tennis & soccer, he’s provided key infrastructure and financial support that have kept our athletes..Read More
Leo Davis – Special Contribution to Sports
(1921 – 1983) A legend of Oregon sports writing, Leo Davis had the talent to be both cruel and kind, long before punditry and hyperbole held center stage in sports journalism. The California native anchored the sports department at the Redmond Spokesman, in Redmond, Oregon, from 1949-1960 before beginning a memorable 23 year run as..Read More
Morris “Bucky” Buckwalter – Special Contribution to Sports
(Born November 22, 1933) Morris “Bucky” Buckwalter went from LaGrande to the top of the pro basketball world through a career as a player, coach and then scout and executive, helping develop the Blazers roster that reached the NBA Finals in 1990 and ’92. Buckwalter grew up in LaGrande and played collegiately at the University..Read More
Dwight Jaynes – Special Contribution to Sports
You know him these day as “The Godfather.” That is an appropriate moniker for Dwight Jaynes (b. Nov 13, 1947) after 25 years as a Portland newspaperman and, now a multi-platform journalist, still revered for telling it like it is. He is Rose City by birth, attended Cleveland High School and Portland State University, fortunate..Read More
Jack Elder – Special Contribution to Sports
(Born August 9, 1941) Jack Elder is an Olympian with some very big ideas. 1984 was not the first time he asked the questions “what if” or “why not”. But it was when he joined Winter Olympics Oregon (or WOO) with its purpose of bidding to host the Winter Olympic Games. It hasn’t happened yet,..Read More
Anna Maria Lopez – Special Contribution to Sports
The face of St. Mary’s Academy athletics from her playing days to her current job as athletic director, Anna Maria Lopez (b. Feb 19, 1960) is as distinguished as a role model as she was a competitor. Between 1974 and 1978, Lopez was the dominant female prep athlete in the state, some might say dominant..Read More
Chuck Richards – Special Contributons to Sports
(Born March 19, 1945) The president of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame has lived his dream of bringing sports and fitness to the community many times over. Chuck Richards was a three-time All-American while at Stadium High School in Tacoma in the early 1960s. Richards won six Washington state championships in freestyle, butterfly and..Read More