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.