Sports Hall of Fame Elects Diverse Class of Individuals
Professional baseball players, college all-stars, championship coaches, an award-winning sportscaster, an honored thoroughbred trainer, an Oakland A’s legend, and even a world-champion pizza thrower make up the Castro Valley Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024.
The 14 newly elected Hall of Fame members are television sportscaster Brodie Brazil, Castro Valley High’s long-time equipment manager Warren Davis, world-champion pizza thrower Tony Gemignani, thoroughbred trainer Robert Hess, Jr., track star Kennedy Jones, professional soccer player Jenny LaPonte, late basketball coach Jim Lemmon, soccer standout Allison Sill, wrestler Summer Scott, volleyball star Kelli Sousa, athlete and coach Will Tavis, Oakland A’s Hall of Famer Steve Vucinich and professional baseball pitchers A.J. Vanegas and Alex Williams.
Those 14 individuals join the 1994 Castro Valley High girls’ volleyball and 1958 boys’ wrestling teams to complete the diverse Class of 2024. They will be honored at an induction ceremony and banquet at Redwood Canyon Golf Course on Sunday, April 21, 2024.
The Castro Valley Sports Foundation started the Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and has elected 16 new members every two years since then, except in 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced a cancelation. Plaques honoring each Hall of Fame class are displayed at the Ice Creamery on Castro Valley Blvd.
A series of articles on each of the new Hall of Fame inductees will begin running in the Forum in December. Ticket information for the April 21 induction ceremony will be forthcoming.