The Monache Athletic Hall of Fame Committee needs the help of the community of Porterville to find contact information for Monache Central Section Valley Championship teams who haven’t yet been inducted into the hall of fame.
Only Valley championship teams are eligible to be inducted into the hall. The following Valley championship teams have been inducted into the Hall:
1978 Wrestling, coach Drew Williams; 1991 Baseball, coach Paul Begin; 1996 girls water polo, coach Hal Hevener; 1997 girls basketball, coach Tom Fiormonti.
The committee has the contact info for the following Valley championship teams to be inducted in the future: 2004 girls water polo and 2008 boys water polo, coach Brandon Weaver; 2005 and 2008 boys water polo, coach Brandon Weaver; 2012 and 2017 softball, coach Dave Koontz.
Information is needed on the following teams to be inducted in the hall in the future: 2011 and 2012 girls basketball; 2014 and 2017 girls cross country and 2017 boys cross country.
Those who know who coached these teams can help the committee. Those who have information, even if it’s just the name of the coach, can email Drew Williams, captainandrew440@icloud.com Those who were members of those teams are asked to email their name, what team they were on, their email address and phone number, email all that information to Williams.
Those who have any contact information on teammates who played on these teams are asked to contact them and send their contact information to Williams, the committee chairman, at his email address.
INDIVIDUAL ATHLETES
The committee has been working with a list that was created by all the coaches who were coaching at Monache in 1997. A list of about 80 potential candidates were gathered and contact information was obtained. Names were collected from the first graduating class in 1971 to 1997. A handful of candidates have from 1997-2000 have been added.
The dilemma is a lack of candidates from 2000 to 2024. The committee is reaching out to the community of Porterville and social media for prospective hall candidates so then can be emailed with a questionnaire to be filled out and returned to the committee for screening and possible induction.
Those who know past Monache athletes they think are potential hall candidates should send their name, year of graduate, sport or sports and contact information to Williams. A name without contact information is of no value.
Of the 28 athletes who have been inducted into the hall, 20 continued their athletic participation at the next level. Inductees include former Major Leaguer Rance Mulliniks, two-time Olympian Tim Vanni and the majority of inductees had successful collegiate careers.
Eight of the inductees were selected on the basis of multi-sport participation and excelling at a high level in the post-season which include all-league, MVP, all-Valley, individual Valley champion, state qualifier, state placer and Double M Award winner honors.
Screening of candidates is based on a point system with points awarded for the level of competition each year, freshmen, junior varsity, varsity and the number of sports and the number of years of participation.
Bonus points are awarded for special awards for both teams and individuals. Additional points are awarded to athletes who participated beyond the high school level. The reason for adopting a point system for screening was to make the process more objective.
Only varsity coaches are eligible for the hall. They’re screened based on the number of sports they coached, the number of years they coached and the number of championship teams they coached.