2010 43rd Hall of Fame Banquet Welcome Tonight’s Jeanie Purcell-Hill, Hall of Fame Committee Chair Presentation of the Colors UCSB ROTC National Anthem San Marcos High School Madrigal Singers Opening Remarks Catharine Manset Morreale, SBART President Master of Ceremonies Marc “Cubby” Jacobs Hall of Fame Inductees Russ Hargreaves Memorial Award Program R.F. MacFarland Memorial Trophy Master Athlete Scholarships & Awards Phil Womble Awards Scholar-Athletes of the Year Special Olympics Mayor’s Trophy Coaches of the Year Athletes of the Year Closing Remarks e hope you will patronize our many business friends and sponsors listed in this Wprogram. It is their generosity, along with that of our guests this evening, that helps contribute to the development of our athletic community and to the lives of our student-athletes. Cover photos courtesy of Presidio Sports Program editing, layout and design by Cara M. Gamberdella, Board Member Printing by Boone Graphics Audio Visual by Jensens Audio Visual Slide show by Gene Deering 1 Jeanie Purcell-Hill, Chair 2010 Ethel Byers Gene Deering Cara Gamberdella The Banquet Erin Kozaki Pat Moorhouse-MacPhee Committee Catharine Manset Morreale Mike Warren Rick Wilson Bill Bertka Jerry Harwin Founder Founder Founders Caesar Uyesaka Founder Jerry Harwin 1968-70 Paul Menzel 1993-95 & Past Bill Bertka 1970-72 Joan Russell-Price 1995-97 Larry Crandell 1972-74 Tim Tremblay 1997-99 Presidents Bill Blythe 1974-80 Joe Howell 1999-01 Craig Case 1980-85 Chris Casebeeer 2002-03 Bob Huhn 1985-89 Marc Gamberdella 2004-05 Dick Mires 1989-91 Barry Taugher 2006-07 David Pintard 1991-93 Rick Wilson 2008-09 Catharine Manset Morreale – President Board of Directors Rich Hanna – President Elect Larry Crandell – Chairman of the Board Joseph Coito – Treasurer 2009-10 Debbie Foley – Secretary Bob Archer Richard Mires Michael Biermann Pat Moorhouse-MacPhee Ethel Byers Bill Oakley, Jr Chris Casebeer Bill Pintard Moe Claydon David Pintard Gary Cunningham Jeanie Purcell-Hill Bob Dinaberg Dale Rhine Rusty Fairly Joan Russell Price William Gallivan, Jr. MD Jay Smith Cara M. Gamberdella John Stoney Marc J. Gamberdella Barry Taugher Jerry Harwin Tim Tremblay Joe Howell Jason Wilson Bob Huhn Rick Wilson Erin Johansson Phil Womble Paul Menzel 2 Welcome to our 43rd annual Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table 2010 (SBART) Hall of Fame Banquet. Tonight is the culminating event to our 2009-10 school year where we are proud to honor the outstanding achievements of our President’s local athletes. In light of our mission to recognize and support athletic participation, this year we hosted over 1,000 SBART Board Member Dale Rhine, UCSB Basketball Alumna Christa athletes and coaches Gannon, SBART President Catharine Manset Morreale and former at our Monday Press UCSB Women’s Basketball Coach Mark French at the Women and Girls in Sports Luncheon. Luncheons, 400 athletes at our Women and Girls In Sports Luncheon, raised thousands of dollars for our local athletic departments and provided much needed funding to such well deserved organizations as the UCSB Junior Wheelchair Camp, the Santa Barbara Youth Football League and the Club West Track Club. In addition, we honored dozens of outstanding athletes for their ethics, sportsmanship, academics and volunteer endeavors. We accomplished all of this through the financial support of hundreds of local community members and sponsors and through the hard work of an all-volunteer Board of Directors. Highlights of the year include Karch Kiraly’s appearance at our Fall Classic event. The former Santa Barbara High School volleyball superstar spoke to a packed house of Message SBART members and supporters as well as the Santa Barbara and Dos Pueblos High School varsity girls’ volleyball teams. The success of Fall Classic was followed in February by the Women and Girls in Sports Luncheon featuring Christa Gannon, a former UCSB basketball star that went on to graduate top of her class from Stanford law school before founding Fresh Lifelines for Youth, a non-profit that works with disadvantaged youth in the San Jose area. Her memorable “TWILIGHT” speech prompted a spontaneous standing ovation from the 400+ young athletes in attendance. Finally, former Westmont and Lakers’ Coach Randy Pfund was the headline speaker for our March Madness event. He kept the audience of rapt SBART benefactors captivated with his “inside sports” stories and Final Four picks! Our Board as well as our volunteers, members and sponsors put their time, energy and funding into this organization because we believe in the importance of sports for the youth of our community. We believe that along with lessons learned from engaging in competition and camaraderie, sports teach lifelong skills including discipline, teamwork, goal-setting, pursuit of excellence and resilience in the face of hardship. We know that sports are associated with lower high school dropout rates, higher levels of college attendance, higher test grades and the overall development of achievement- oriented behaviors. If you are currently an SBART sponsor or member, we appreciate and thank you for your ongoing support. If you are not a member, we encourage you to join with us to uphold our 43-year-old mission to recognize and support our youth! 3 It’s been an exciting year for Santa Barbara athletics! In the 2010 Fall, the Santa Barbara and Dos Pueblos girls’ high school volleyball teams clashed in the semi-finals of CIF and Dos Pueblos went on to win the CIF Championship match while the spring brought a CIF Championship to the Dos Pueblos girls water polo team as well as the sensational boys’ soccer CIF Championship match-up between Santa Barbara and Dos Pueblos. Over 8,000 fans watched the Santa Barbara boys’ team edge out Dos Pueblos at UCSB’s Harder Stadium. Meanwhile, Bishop High’s girls’ basketball team won 18 games and advanced to the CIF second round while their boys’ golf team was in contention to win a league championship. Laguna Blanca’s girls’ volleyball team also soared, scoring their eighth consecutive championship in the Condor League and reaching CIF finals before being defeated. In the academic and sportsmanship arena, San Marcos hit a home run coming in on top of the CIF Southern Section Academic Awards where they received the most top-five finishes out of 22 sports. Girls’ swimming, boys’ volleyball and wrestling placed first for the highest cumulative, non-weighted GPAs in their respective sports. The Carpinteria High Warriors achieved accolades in the sportsmanship department, earning the CIF Sportsmanship Award for the Frontier League, while their girls’ golf team won the CIF Academic Team Championship with an un-weighted team GPA of 3.915. Success In the college arena, SBCC’s women’s volleyball had one of the best seasons in school history with Maria Mayer (San Marcos) earning All-State honors. Their men’s soccer team won its second-straight WSC title under John Sisterson, and women’s basketball was second in the WSC with Coach Sandrine Krul named WSC North coach of the year. UCSB’s athletic success was highlighted by NCAA appearances by men’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball as well as individual appearances by cross country and track and field. They also laid claim to the most scholar-athletes in the Big West Conference. Finally, Westmont men’s cross country won the Golden State Athletic Conference Championship, and women’s basketball reached the Golden State Athletic Conference Championship game. Congratulations to all of our college and high school athletes! We are proud to support you! Athletic 4 2010 SBART ver four decades ago, Jerry Harwin and Caesar Uyesaka sipped coffee at Caesar’s Restaurant, talking about the need for a sports group in Santa Barbara that could help the local athletic community in times of need. After Jerry and Caesar shared O Founders a couple more coffee breaks together, the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table was born. Its motto: The advancement and betterment of all sports and athletics in the greater Santa Barbara area. The SBART got off to a fast start. Its first organizational meeting was held at Santa Barbara’s East Beach on January 25, 1968. Hundreds of people attended this meeting, and over 200 joined that evening as Charter Members. The SBART’s first annual banquet was held at Santa Barbara City College on June 22, 1968. Through membership dues, contributions, fundraising events and local foundations, the Round Table has raised more than $2 million. Harry’s Plaza Café was the site of the SBART’s first press luncheon held on September 14, 1970. The luncheons, initiated by the new president, Bill Bertka, were similar to a “Monday Morning Quarterback Club.” All area schools were represented by the head coaches of the sports in season. For over four decades the SBART luncheons have been held at Harry’s every Monday, attended by standing-room-only crowds. Since its first meeting back in 1968, the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table has helped thousands of individuals and organizations by raising funds to support their athletic programs. The Round Table is proud to help student-athletes at all levels compete in events they would otherwise not have been able to attend. It is with our deepest regards and warmest thanks that we acknowledge and celebrate the vision and hard work of our founders, Caesar Uyesaka, Jerry Harwin and Bill Bertka. 5 2010 Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table Hall of Fame Induction Class of 2010 Fame Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Hotel May 24, 2010 Santa Barbara, Calif. Hall 6 2010 Hall of Hall Alan Everest Outstanding Athlete Alan Everest was a standout football, baseball and basketball player at San Marcos High School. A top-ten academic graduate in 1968, Everest was the MVP in both football and baseball and highest-scholar award in all three sports.