From baseball to track and field, Fresno High set to induct its 2017 Athletic Wall class

Nine individual athletes, a coach and the 1960 North Yosemite League champion boys basketball team will be honored at the 11th annual Fresno High Alumni Athletic Wall of Champions Dinner.

Tickets are $65 for the Oct. 11 event that begins with a no-host social at 5:30 p.m. at Pardini’s Banquet Hall.

The fall fundraiser contributes to the Alumni Association’s support of athletic and academic activities.

The 2017 inductees, with brief bios provided by the association:

Jeff Beaubier: 1957, track and field; set school distance running records

Leonard Berry: 1960, tennis; Valley mixed doubles champion; University of Denver Athlete of the Year

Chuck Cobb: 1954, track and field, football; All-America Stanford hurdler; alternate on 1960 U.S. Olympic team

Ed Hamlin: 1959, cross country, track and field; Valley champion twice; captain of the Harvard cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field teams

Ken Jensen: 1961, basketball and baseball; Fresno High Athlete of Year; All-City, All-League, All-Valley and All-Northern California in basketball

Bill Kendrick: Assistant, head football coach for 20 years

Mike Long: 1972, football; played defense and offense for 1971 team that won Valley and finished 11-1

Liz Miles: 1973, tennis; also UC Berkeley rowing; member of the U.S. rowing team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics; two silvers on U.S. national teams in Munich 1981 and Lucerne 1982

Bill Rogers: 1951, track and field, football; holds record for longest run from scrimmage (96 yards) in Stanford football history

Mike Urrizola: 1957, baseball; 15-1 pitching record for Valley champions

1960 basketball team: NYL champions; coached by Lee Angelich, 18-1 record

Videos about the inductees will be shown at the dinner before they are edited into the permanent Athletic Wall of Champions touch-screen display at Fresno High.

The videos give present and future FHS students the opportunity to see the stories about Fresno High’s greatest athletes, coaches, and teams.

This story was originally published October 5, 2017 at 4:57 PM with the headline "From baseball to track and field, Fresno High set to induct its 2017 Athletic Wall class."