Lemoore High Foundation to induct new members at annual Hall of Fame event Oct. 20

By The Leader Staff
Jerome Avery, pictured here at a Lemoore Rotary Club meeting, will be one of five individuals, athletes a tennis team and three wrestlers inducted into the LHS Hall of Fame.
Jerome Avery, pictured here at a Lemoore Rotary Club meeting, will be one of five individuals, athletes a tennis team and three wrestlers inducted into the LHS Hall of Fame.
Photo Courtesy Lemoore Rotary

The Lemoore Union High School Foundation has scheduled its annual Hall of Fame event for Saturday, October 20 at the Lemoore Civic Auditorium, and after feasting on dinner, attendees will watch as four new hall of fame entrants, a championship tennis team, and three wrestlers earn their spots in the school’s burgeoning hall of fame.

Tickets are available at the Lemoore district office, located at 5 Powell Avenue, directly across the street from Lemoore High School. The cost is $50 per person and can also be purchased at the Best Western Inn and Suites on D Street and Bush Street. The event begins at 6 p.m. that night.

Another honoree includes Jay Salyer, the school’s football announcer, who will receive the Gary Sedgwick Award for volunteering his time to the district.

A posthumous award will be awarded to Virginia Wedderburn who ran an aquatics facility, Adventure Sports Unlimited, which taught people to swim, kayak and scuba dive all over the world and later started the Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival, one of the largest of its kind in the world.

Jerome Avery, in the Olympic news for his gold medal performance in the 2016 Paralympic Olympics, helped guide blind athletes to Paralympic gold medals and other championships.

Also honored are Tiger alum Jeff Reid, an attorney who has served as Fresno City Manager and Undersecretary of the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and Bobbin Cherrington Mulvaney, the owner of Plates Café, a popular Sacramento and Catering business that trains formerly homeless women with children to work in the food industry.

Athletes honored include the 2006 girls’ tennis team, coached by Jack Bow and his assistant, Mandy James. Players include Courtney Carreiro, Deanna Edon, Tabitha Koutny, Lynzi Lowe, Tiffany Mendoza, Ruby Rodriguez, Bria Todd, Tracy Urban and Destri Dickey.

Finally, Lemoore championship wrestlers William Pendleton, Dustin Rocha and Mark Anderson will be inducted and join a long list of Tiger wrestlers in the Athletic Hall of Fame.

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