Jon Schuh, Central Valley and University HS fastpitch softball and U-Hi slowpitch softball. Nick Menegas, Post Falls and Lewiston HS football.
Rick Giampietri, Central Valley HS football. Don Owen, Coeur d’Alene and University HS wrestling. Pat Tyson, Mead HS and GU cross country and track and field. Buzzie Welch, Rogers, Ferris and Lewis and Clark HS volleyball. Beau Baldwin, Eastern Washington University football. Jack Mooberry, Rogers HS and WSU track and field. Dwight Church, Lewiston HS and Lewis-Clark American Legion baseball. Bill Frazier, Gonzaga Prep football and baseball. Irene Matlock, Sandpoint HS and Community Colleges of Spokane volleyball. Tracy Walters, Rogers HS track and field.
John Owen, NIC and Central Valley and West Valley HS wrestling. Jud Heathcote, West Valley HS boys basketball. Rolly Williams, North Idaho College men’s basketball. Don Monson, Cheney HS boys and Idaho men’s basketball. John Chaplin, WSU track and field and cross country. Tommy Lasorda, Spokane Indians baseball (manager). Linda Sheridan, Shadle Park HS girls basketball and volleyball. A sampling: Mark Few, GU men’s basketball. He passed for 3,968 yards and 33 touchdowns – spectacular numbers at the time – to lead the Cougars to their first Rose Bowl since 1931. The WSU junior quarterback finished third in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1997. Morrison, a Mead High grad, averaged 28.1 points per game as a junior at Gonzaga. 2 pick is Adam Morrison, the national co-player of the year in men’s basketball in 2005-06. As a WSU sophomore, Olerud went 15-0 (!) on the mound and only batted. Who lays claim to the greatest season in Inland Northwest college sports history? Since some of Romo’s 1978 world records took place outside the college season, we’ll nominate John Olerud, the 1988 College Baseball Player of the Year.Human beings are not supposed to perform in such a manner. While we’re on the subject of amazing feats: Washington State distance runner Henry Rono set world records in four events in 81 days in 1978.It never ceases to amaze that a city of Spokane’s size pumped out, in short order, Basketball Hall of Famer John Stockton (Gonzaga Prep), Baseball Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg (North Central) and Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien (Shadle Park).This does not, however, make the ongoing miracle any less remarkable.
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Sports in our region experienced an unprecedented upgrade when Pacific Coast League baseball and the original (pro) Western Hockey League came to Spokane in 1958.A retired sports writer like myself struggles to remember what happened 65 minutes ago, never mind 65 years ago. We’ll limit our trip down memory lane to the past 65 years because, well, I’m 65 years old. Now that the coronavirus has silenced the sports world for the most part, it seems like a good time to look back on some of the best times in the long and impressive history of sports in our region. So old, in fact, that I have witnessed a large percentage of the greatest teams, athletes and events in Inland Northwest sports history. I am, friends and family constantly remind me, quite elderly.