The San Jose Sports activities Corridor of Fame introduced its 2024 inductees on Tuesday, marking its twenty ninth class in its historical past.
This yr’s inductees are John Arrillaga, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, Mike Holmgren and Kerri Walsh Jennings.
“San Jose’s extremely wealthy and various sports activities historical past makes the Corridor of Fame choice course of very tough annually,” mentioned Charlie Faas, Chairman of the San Jose Sports activities Authority Board of Administrators in a press release. “The Class of 2024 is a superb illustration of the deep and significant affect athletes and coaches with South Bay connections have made of their respective sports activities, domestically, nationally and internationally. We’re excited to welcome these 4 exceptional people into the San Jose Sports activities Corridor of Fame.”
Arrillaga was an all-conference basketball participant at Stanford within the Nineteen Fifties, however is most identified for his work in serving to the school construct its athletic program. As a developer in Silicon Valley, Arrillaga used his attain to assist construct sports activities services round Stanford’s campus, together with serving to renovate Stanford Stadium in 2005. He died in 2022.
John Arrillaga, actual property developer and philanthropist, 1937-2022. (Raymond Purpur, Stanford Athletic Division) (Raymond Purpur, Stanford Athletic Division)
Guerrero, a Gilroy native, was a Junior Olympics gold medalist on the age of 15 earlier than turning professional. He received the IBF Featherweight title in 2006 and the IBF Tremendous Featherweight championship three years later. Recognized for not ducking any fighter, Guerrero fought the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr., Keith Thurman, Danny Garcia, Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto. He completed his profession 38-6-1.
Robert Guerrero, proper, throws a jab towards Floyd Mayweather Jr. within the third spherical throughout a WBC welterweight title combat, Saturday, Could 4, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Picture/Isaac Brekken)
Holmgren was most identified for profitable two Tremendous Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers as an assistant coach and one with the Inexperienced Bay Packers as head coach, however his teaching profession began as an offensive coordinator at Oak Grove Excessive College from 195 to 1980. Holmgren ended his teaching profession with a 174-122 report, which included 13 postseason wins.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, talks with former coach Mike Holmgren, proper, after a personal memorial service for San Francisco 49ers nice Dwight Clark at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. (Randy Vazquez/ Bay Space Information Group)
Jennings is a legend within the sport of seaside volleyball. Jennings and her associate Misty Could-Treannor received Olympic gold medals at Athens in 2004, Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012. A graduate of Archbishop Mitty Excessive College, she helped win three state volleyball titles for the Monarchs together with a state basketball championship. She then went on to be a four-time volleyball All American and received two NCAA titles at Stanford.
USA’s Kerri Walsh Jennings controls the ball in the course of the ladies’s seaside volleyball semi-final match between USA and Brazil on the Seashore Volley Area in Rio de Janeiro on August 16, 2016, as a part of the Rio 2016 Olympic Video games. ( YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Photos)
The 4 South Bay sports activities figures will likely be honored on Nov. 13 on the SAP Middle in San Jose.
