Welcome to the Peninsula College Athletics Hall of Fame
The Peninsula College Athletics Hall of Fame honors athletes, staff and community members who have made outstanding contributions to the college. These individuals must have accomplished extraordinary achievements in athletics that have contributed to the pride, prestige and success of Peninsula College and its community.
2025 Inductees:
2015 Women's Basketball Team
The 2014-15 Peninsula Pirates women’s basketball team made history in March of 2015, winning the College’s first-ever Northwest Athletic Conference women’s basketball championship. Coach Alison Crumb Rose’s Pirates went 13-1 to win Peninsula’s second-ever North Division championship and then won four straight games in four straight days at the Toyota Center in Kennewick to capture the NWAC title. It was a true team effort, with different players coming up big at different moments throughout the tournament and tremendous focus, tenacity and confident play from the entire roster. The coaching staff of Rose, Danika Johnson and Mike Knowles prepared their team for the run and what a run it was. The Pirates opened with a decisive 81-60 win over Portland, they dispatched Highline in the quarterfinal 70-55, then rolled over South Region power Umpqua 84-70 in the semifinal before outscoring Lane 85-75 in the championship. The PC women got a career-high 21 points from Miranda Schmillen, 18 points from tournament MVP Madison Pilster, 14 from Imani Smith, 11 from Cierra Moss and nine points and eight rebounds from Gabi Fenumiai. As a team, the Pirates drilled 11 3-pointers and benefited from 31 bench points. That Pirate team went 23-5 on the season, winning more games than any PC women’s team before them in the 18th year of that sport. It was the fourth straight year making the post season under Coach Rose, who was named NWAC Coach of the Year, and the Pirate women have made the playoffs every year since.
Taylor Larson
Taylor was recruited to Peninsula from Juneau, Alaska in 2011 and played two years for the Pirates, re-writing the Pirate women’s basketball scoring records. The 5-11 post was arguably one of the most dominant post players in PC women’s basketball history. Her freshmen year, she broke seven scoring records, including points in a game, 35, and points in a season with 470. She was a ferocious player at both ends of the floor and led the Pirates to a third-place league finish and a top-12 NWAC finish, going 17-11. Then, in 2012-13, she smashed virtually all of the PC scoring records, leaving Peninsula with her name on 12 of them, including points in a game, 41; points in a season, 470; points in a career, 905; as well as nine other records for best average, attempts, and field goals made in games, season and career. Her sophomore team placed fourth in the North Division, reached the NWAC tournament and finished 14-12. She was named North Division MVP. Those back-to-back tournament appearances were the first for Coach Alison Crumb Rose, who began her career as head coach in 2009. Taylor’s impact on Pirate women’s basketball set the tone for many great post players to follow. It also marked the start of a PC women’s basketball run that saw every team since make the NWAC Tournament. Taylor went on to play at Central Methodist University, eventually graduating from Eastern Washington University and returning to Juneau where she works in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis, helping with children with disabilities.
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson first put on a black and gold jersey under Coach Peter Stewart in 2009-10 and returned to play for coach Lance Von Vogt in 2010-11 following Stewart’s departure. The Huntsville, Utah product brought to Peninsula a tremendous work ethic, a high basketball IQ and provided leadership and a sweet shooting stroke to a team that placed fourth in the North Division and qualified for the NWAC Tournament. He came back his sophomore year as Peninsula College student body president and team captain, and this time helped his Pirates break through to win the College’s first, and only, men’s basketball championship since 1970. That Pirate team, under coach Von Vogt, went 22-7 and won four straight games in the championship tournament to bring the trophy back to Peninsula. Johnson graduated and transferred to New England College where he and Danika Goodwin Johnson, who also played for the Pirates, were married and both played basketball for the Pilgrims. Upon graduation, Jeremiah was hired by Peninsula College to return to Port Angeles to work in athletics and student life. His contribution to the many student leadership teams, and his work creating epic student life events, as well as his contribution to the soccer and basketball programs was immeasurable. The innovative graphics and ground-breaking game-day technology he provided were tops in the NWAC and the relationships he built with students, staff and community members made his lifetime contribution to Pirate Athletics a slam dunk to be inducted into the 2025 Hall of Fame.
Julie Stewart
Julie Stewart made her head coaching debut in 2003, one year after moving to the Peninsula with her husband Peter, who had taken the men’s basketball head coaching position. The “Stewart Era” of Pirate basketball was afoot, and Julie took on two different coaching stints, while starting a family. She produced a winning season right out of the gate, going 13-12 in 2003-04 and the very next year recruited a line-up that gave Peninsula College its’ first-ever women’s basketball league championship, winning the North Division with a 12-4 record, and going 21-10 overall. It was that year the Stewarts shared a unique moment in PC sports history, both head coaches cutting down the nets at both ends of the Pirate gym. She then stepped aside to focus on her family, returning three years later to the head coaching job for the 2008-09 season, when she went 13-3 to finish second in the North, and 19-11 overall with another trip to the NWAC Tournament. The Stewarts moved back to the Midwest in 2010, where Julie once again returned to her passion of coaching, this time at Bishop Ryan High School in Minot, ND, from 2011-17 where they won three state championships. She continues to have success at the high school level as head coach at Wayzata HS in Plymouth, MN, where she won the Lake Conference title in 2025 and she was named Section Coach of the Year.
Peter Stewart
Peter Stewart accepted the position as Peninsula’s third head coach after the college re-started athletics in 1997. Coach Stewart came to PC in 2002 following coaching stints in Australia, Malaysia and Canada and a playing resume that included a professional career in Australia and a college career as captain of the University of North Dakota men’s basketball team. He inherited a team that won only three games in 2002-03, but remarkably took the 2003-04 team to the college’s first-ever league championship, a 23-7 record and a third-place finish in the NWAC. In his eight years as head coach at Peninsula, he won 127 games, 90% of his home games, and made six trips to the NWAC Tournament, placing second in 2006, third in both 2004 and 2007, and fourth in 2008 and 2010. He won three North Division championships and was twice named North Division Coach of the Year. One of those region championships was a historic night in Pirate sports history, when Coach Peter Stewart and Coach Julie Stewart had their teams at each end of the gym cutting down the nets. Coach Stewart left Peninsula for the head coaching job at Minot State University, and has always been connected to the sport of basketball, in 2025 working as Director of Player Development at Wayzata Girls Basketball Association in Minneapolis, MN. The “Stewart Era” of Pirate men’s basketball left a legacy of disciplined, hard-nosed, fundamental basketball, a legacy of winning, and a legacy of lifetime relationships with players, coaches and North Olympic Peninsula community members.
2023 Inductees:
2011 Men's Basketball Team
The 2010-11 men’s basketball team did something no Pirate basketball team had done since 1970, they won a championship. And most remarkably, they did it under first-year head coach Lance Von Vogt. His players, who came to this small remote college from across the country, gelled as the season progressed. It was a hard-working and gritty team that bought into Von Vogt’s vision of winning a championship and they had the talent and heart to accomplish that feat. To win the college’s first basketball title since the Washington Athletic Conference expanded to Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, the Pirates rode the guard play of Mitrell Clark, Sam Waller, and Thad Vinson, as well as the inside play of DeShaun Freeman, Anthony Williams, team captain Jeremiah Johnson, and Jerry Johnson, to dispatch the top finishing teams in the tournament. The path to the title went through Yakima Valley, who finished fifth, top-ranked Tacoma, who finished fourth, and Spokane, who finished third. The Pirates then took the floor at the Toyota Center in Kennewick for a fourth straight day where they defeated Pierce in an 80-76 thriller in the Northwest Athletic Conference championship. Clutch shooting and a lockdown defense that held opponents to just 65 points per game in the championship tournament paved the way to the title. The Pirates finished 23-7.
Garrett Abbott
A Port Angeles High School basketball star, Garrett was on the short list of recruits when Mark Amaral was awarded the job as the Pirate men’s basketball coach in 1997, restarting a program that was dropped in 1982. Playing alongside high school teammate Tony Burke, Garrett shined in black and gold. He scored Peninsula’s first field goal in the season-opening game at Grays Harbor in November of 1997, and went on to average 18 points and 6 rebounds per game that year, leading the Pirates to an 11-16 record, 7-9 in league. In Garrett’s sophomore year, he continued to fill it up, again averaging 18 points a game and this time taking the Pirates to the brink of the playoffs with a 19-9 record, 8-8 in league. Garrett played in the NWAACC All-Star Game where he led all scorers with 25 points. His success as a Pirate landed him a scholarship to play basketball for the University of Alaska Sea Wolves in Anchorage. He completed his playing career at UAA and remained in Alaska for 20 years, staying active in the Alaska and Northwest basketball community. His work as an executive in the oil industry took Garrett and his family to Houston, Texas, where he coaches youth basketball and baseball year-round.
Paul Woolpert
Paul came from a basketball rich family, his father Phil winning back-to-back NCAA championships as head coach of the University of San Francisco in 1955-56. Paul’s own basketball journey started in Sequim and landed him at Peninsula College in 1979. In two years at PC, Paul led the Pirates in scoring and rebounding under coach Tim Fryer, but it was after Peninsula when his career took off. He transferred to the University of Portland where he got his start in coaching as a student assistant. Paul was a scout for the Seattle SuperSonics and Portland Trailblazers from 1986-1997 working for NBA coaches including Bernie Bickerstaff, K.C. Jones and George Karl. He then became a head coach himself in 1998 with the Yakima Sun Kings and went on to win three CBA championships and was three times named coach of the year. Paul moved to other coaching opportunities in Australia and Los Angeles before returning to Yakima as head coach and general manager in 2017 where he won another championship in 2018. Paul was an exciting and athletic player who parlayed his court smarts and basketball pedigree into a sensational career as a scout and a coach.
Tiffany Hoch
After overcoming two ACL reconstructions that plagued her high school career, Tiffany was cleared to play for the Pirates, and her grandfather, head coach Curt Bagby, midway through Peninsula’s inaugural season in 1997. The Pirates had lost all of their non-conference games to that point, but Tiffany provided an immediate spark, averaging 14 points and 5 rebounds per game, and leading the team in three-point shooting, as the Pirates went 7-9 in league play. She came back her sophomore year with a larger and more balanced roster, contributing 12 points and 4 rebounds per game, helping her Pirates to 12 wins in the 1998-99 season. Coach Bagby had recruited a number of talented players who, along with Tiffany, were the pioneers who launched the sport of women’s basketball at Peninsula College. Tiffany emerged as a leader of that team, and a coach on the floor, who created a culture of winning, and grit, and camaraderie, that lives on in Pirate women’s basketball today. Following her career at Peninsula, she transferred to Central Washington University and went on to a successful coaching career that spanned high school, junior high, and AAU basketball in Montana.
2021 Inductees:
2012 Women's Soccer Team
The 2012 Pirates were the first women’s team in any sport to win a championship at Peninsula. That team, under the husband-and-wife coaching staff of Kanyon and Amanda Anderson, was loaded at every position and set the stage for Pirate teams to follow, going 22-1-1, pouring in 114 goals and allowing just 13. The Pirates were led by 2012 NWAC Player of the Year Bri Afoa, who scored 23 goals and added nine assists. She was joined by a host of teammates, led by Kendra Miner with 12 goals and 6 assists, Jordan Dinneen with 7 goals and 14 assists, Morgan Atchley with 10 goals and 4 assists, Ashlyn Crossan 7 goals and 7 assists, Irene Jones 9 goals and 3 assists, and Brianna Estrellado 7 goals and 5 assists. Goalkeepers Denae Brooks and Laura Morgan combined for 13 shutouts and got support from Shelby Vienna-Hallam, Miranda Sochacki, Annie Armstrong, Hailey Berg, Ashlyn Frizzelle and others. That Pirate team defeated Spokane in a thrilling title match.
2012 Men's Soccer Team
The 2012 Pirates became the second team in Peninsula College men’s soccer history to win the NWAC, defeating Walla Walla in the championship match. Head coach Andrew Chapman and assistant coaches Omar Anderson and Tim Tucker put together a very talented roster that rolled through the West Division and the post season, going 18-1-2, scoring 75 goals, and allowing just 10. Alex Martinez led the offensive onslaught with 21 goals and 13 assists, Daniel Gonzalez added with 17 goals and 8 assists, Henrique Noujeimi scored 15 goals and 2 assists, and Eric Urzua also got in on the act with 6 goals and 10 assists. Goalkeeper Guilherme Avelar recorded 11 of the Pirate’s 15 shutouts and he had the support of team captains Aaron Jefferies and Mark Cottrell, as well as Morgan Lemus, Irvin Somera and others who led Peninsula’s stout defensive effort. Gonzalez was named First Team All-American and went on to have a professional soccer career and Martinez was the fifth straight Pirate to win the NWAC Most Valuable Player award. Tim Tucker was named the National Assistant Coach of the year and Andrew Chapman the NWAC Coach of the Year.
2013 Women's Soccer Team
The 2013 Pirates sent a message to the Northwest Athletic Conference that Peninsula College was the new powerhouse of college women’s soccer. The PC women posted a remarkable 20-2-0 record, both losses to 4-year colleges, with 89 goals and only 13 goals scored against them. Once again, head coach Kanyon Anderson and assistant Amanda Anderson were at the top of their game with a winner dressed in black and gold. The Pirates earned their rings with a victory over Edmonds in the NWAC championship. Bri Afoa sealed her place as one of Peninsula’s all-time leading scorers with 22 goals and 10 assists. Bronte Fitzsimmons added 11 goals and an astonishing 23 assists. That team also got help offensively from Shelbi Vienna-Hallam with 8 goals and 3 assists, Larkyn Nelson with 7 goals and 3 assists, Brenda Torres with 5 goals and 7 assists, and Mary Pierce with 7 goals and 2 assists. Goalkeepers Emily Flinn and Kasie Lough combined for 13 shutouts and once again benefited from an experienced group of defenders including Vienna-Hallam, Miranda Sochacki, Annie Armstrong, Hailey Berg, Ashlyn Frizelle and Misty Kaiwi.
2013 Men's Soccer Team
The 2013 Pirates posted the first unbeaten record in Pirate soccer history, going 21-0-2, scoring 83 goals and allowing just a dozen. They capped it off with a thrilling win over Clark in the NWAC championship. It would be the final team that Andrew Chapman, who built the PC men’s soccer dynasty, would coach. It was the third NWAC title in four years for the men. The Pirates were led by Alex Martinez, who scored a jaw-dropping 28 goals with 10 assists to finish with 49 career goals, the most in PC men’s history to date. Ash Apollon, who went on to play professionally, added 16 goals and 15 assists, and the Pirates had three players who also put the ball in the net regularly, with Kalei Gallarde finishing the year with 8 goals and 7 assists, Eric Urzua 6 goals and 11 assists, and Christian Martinez with 8 goals and 6 assists. Goalkeeper Angel Guerra had all 13 of PC’s shutouts. Also contributing to those shutouts on the defensive side of the pitch were captains Mark Cottrell and Corbyn May, Zach Newton and Lachlan Bond, who was named National First Team All-Academic. The Pirates were assisted by Omar Anderson and Tim Tucker.
Bill Peterson
Bill Peterson contributed 21 years to Pirate basketball, providing a professional anchor to the scorer’s table as the official scorer. His experience as a player, a coach and a long-time official, along with his professional approach to the job, his attention to detail and his communication skills, gave Peninsula College arguably the finest score keeper in the NWAC. Bill was at the table for Peninsula’s first home game in 1997 and that volunteer gig lasted 21 years before Peterson, who never missed a game, hung up his pencil following the 2017-18 season. The Forks High School basketball and football star, who had a brief stint with the 1967 PC Pirates, gave back to his Olympic Peninsula community from 1968-1984 as a basketball official and then from 1992 until 2018 with the Port Angeles Parks & Recreation Department. His dedication to our program, and our community, secured his position in the Pirate Athletics Hall of Fame.
2018 Inductees:
2000 Men’s Basketball Team
The 1999-2000 Pirate men’s basketball team was the first in Peninsula College history to win a league championship. They also became the first team in Pirate history to earn a No. 1 ranking in the NWAC Coaches’ poll following a nine-game winning streak that propelled them into first place in the North in early February of 2000. After falling to Olympic for one of only two league losses, the Pirates won their last four games to capture the North Region championship. They were among the favorites to win the NWACBasketball Tournament that year, but an injury and a buzzer-beater led to a heart-breaking 71-70 loss to Southwestern Oregon in the opening round. The Pirates went on to place sixth. The PC men finished the season 28-6 overall, which still stands as the most wins in a season in Pirate men’s basketball history.
Curt Bagby
Curt Bagby was Peninsula’s first intercollegiate women’s basketball coach, hired in 1997 following an outstanding high school career coaching girls’ basketball and football at Port Angeles High School. In his final nine years coaching the Roughrider basketball team, he won seven league championships and made five trips to the state playoffs, including a second-place finish, the best ever in PA girls’ basketball history. At Peninsula, he assembled the very first women’s intercollegiate basketball team in 1997 and went on to win 57 games in four years. Coach Bagby took the Pirates to their first two NWAC Basketball Tournament appearances in school history and twice won North Region Coach of the Year honors. His overall body of work included 41 years of coaching. His historic and notable contribution to Peninsula College was as a “founding father” who not only achieved success himself, but also laid the ground work for the program’s success that followed.
Kent Brauninger
Kent Brauninger came to Peninsula College in 1968 to teach mathematics. He volunteered to help Athletic Director Art Feiro and the Pirate basketball program as a score clock operator. An outstanding math professor by day, he was at the scorer’s table at night, keeping the precise time and score for Pirate basketball games from 1968-1981 when the College dropped intercollegiate sports. He then returned to the score clock in 1997 when the College re-launched basketball - and he’s been at the table almost every home game since. Kent ran the score clock for more than 500 basketball games. He is also one of Peninsula’s major Pirate Boosters and one of the Colleges’ longest-running Pirate fans. He retired from Peninsula in 2000, but not only stayed on to teach math part time for a few years, but has also remained as a volunteer at the scorer’s table for 18 years…and counting.
Mark Amaral
Peninsula College is proud to have been on the front end of Coach Amaral’s outstanding career in college basketball. The College hired Amaral to re-launch men’s basketball in 1997 after the sport was dropped in 1981. He brought six years of assistant coaching experience to Peninsula from Carroll College, Lewis-Clark State and Montana Tech, but was quick to build an exciting and competitive Pirate men’s basketball program as its head coach. He put together a winning record in just his second season (19-9) and then went 28-6 in his third year to win North Region Coach of the Year - and the first league championship in school history. In his three seasons at Peninsula, he went 58-31, and laid the groundwork for what has been a very successful modern history of Pirate men’s basketball. After three years at the Pirate helm, Coach Amaral went on to very successful ventures at UC Santa Barbara, Colorado State, Cal Poly, and most recently Pepperdine.
William Quenette
The late William “Bill” Quenette was the first coach in Peninsula College sports history, hired to teach physical education and to form a “club” basketball team in 1962-63, one year after the College was founded. He then coached Peninsula’s first intercollegiate basketball team a year later in 1963-64 and went on to serve four years as the Pirate head coach. He also coached golf, baseball and track during that time, and helped design the current Pirate gym in 1966. Coach Quenette would spend the remainder of his 47-year career teaching PE and coaching football, boys and girls basketball, baseball, and golf, primarily at Moorhead High School in Minnesota. Coach Quenette, who passed away in 2013, now resides in an astounding six halls of fame, including The Minnesota High School Basketball Coaches, Concordia College, Minnesota HS Coaches, Moorhead Hall of Honor, West Fargo High School, and now Peninsula College.
2016 Inductees:
2010 Men's Soccer Team
The 2010 Peninsula College men’s soccer team became the second team in Pirate Athletics history to win a championship when they defeated Highline in a thrilling Northwest Athletic Conference title match that went scoreless through two halves and two overtime periods, finally ending in a shootout with the PC men on top 5-4. Miguel Gonzalez, who went on to play professionally, scored the first PK in the shootout, followed by Brian Holguin, Jeff Mullen, Jake Hughes and Yan Gioseffi. Goal keeper Jared Wilson, who earned the shutout and blocked Highline’s fifth PK attempt in the shootout, was named NWAC Tournament Most Valuable Player. Head coach Andrew Chapman was honored as NWAC Coach of the Year. The Pirates finished 13-3-4 overall and 8-3-2 in West Division play, winning the division title.
Jim Lunt
The late Jim Lunt is among the most important figures in Peninsula College sports history. He was the College’s first student body president, in 1961, the year the College was founded, and the year he and other students selected the school colors and the Pirate as its mascot. He then returned to work at Peninsula in the late 1960s, where he was involved in athletics through 1981 when the College dropped its intercollegiate athletic program. Jim continued in Financial Aid and Student Life through the 1980s and ‘90s and then was part of a committee that was formed under the late President Dr. Wally Sigmar to bring sports back to Peninsula in 1997. He was named Athletic Director and presided over the program before retiring in 2001. Jim’s other passion was youth baseball and softball. In retirement, he continued to serve as President of the all-volunteer North Olympic Baseball and Softball program until his passing in 2014 at the age of 71.
Rose Gala Moorhead
Rose Gala Moorhead made an immediate impact on the history of women’s sports at Peninsula College when she accepted a position to teach physical education and health in 1965. She established a Women’s Recreation Association program and worked with the late Art Feiro to start women’s volleyball and women’s basketball at Peninsula. Through the WRA, her Pirates competed strongly against other community colleges and universities in the region. Rose left Peninsula, where she taught as many as 14 different activity PE courses, in 1973, but not before laying the ground work for the College to launch women’s intercollegiate athletics in 1975. Rose remained an advocate, and a pioneer, of women’s sports on the North Olympic Peninsula where she officiated volleyball for many years, she helped start the Port Angeles Women’s Tennis Club, and also helped establish the Senior Games in Port Angeles.
Howard 'Scooter' Chapman
Well known across the region as an icon in newspaper and radio, Howard “Scooter: Chapman has reported on Peninsula College athletics since its beginning in 1962. He served as sports editor of the Port Angeles Evening News and sports director for Radio KONP throughout most of Peninsula Colleges’ history, including a live radio broadcast of the 1970 men’s basketball championship at Lower Columbia College in Longview. Scooter’s support through his newspaper and radio reporting, as well as his contribution as master of ceremonies at fund raising events, has greatly contributed to the success of Pirate Athletics. In addition to the Peninsula College Athletics Hall of Fame, Chapman also resides in the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Hall of Fame. He also boasts a successful career officiating sports events on the North Olympic Peninsula, including fast pitch softball games at Peninsula from 2000-2009.
Jim Clem
Jim Clem’s remarkable career in baseball began at Peninsula College in 1971 where he played baseball and basketball for the Pirates. He also served the College as student body president. As a pitcher and outfielder for the PC baseball team, he was named team captain and Most Valuable Player. It was after Peninsula, however, that Jim’s career took off. He went on to help Central Washington University win an Evergreen Conference championship in 1975, before graduating and moving onto one of the most impressive coaching careers in the region including 28 seasons at Burlington-Edison High School, where his teams won 12 conference titles and appeared in 15 state tournaments. He went on to coach with the Bellingham Bells in the West Coast League. Jim also resides in five other halls of fame, including the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association, Washington American Legion Baseball, Burlington-Edison High School, the WIAA, and CWU.
2014 Inductees:
1970 Men's Basketball Team
The 1969-70 Pirates were the first and only Peninsula College team to win a championship until the soccer and men’s basketball teams broke through in 2010-11. They also won in dramatic fashion. After trailing Lower Columbia 102-85 with eight minutes to play, the Pirates rallied to win in double overtime 132-130, led by the 57 points from NWAC Hall of Fame inductee Bernie Fryer, a mark that still stands as the most points scored in an NWAC playoff game. The Pirates, who went 17-3 in Coastal Division play and 24-5 overall, including two losses to Lower Columbia, were not among the favorites to win that year. However, they finished the season with 2,030 points, 250 more than the second highest scoring team.
Jerry Allen
Jerry Allen’s connection to Peninsula College began as a basketball player in the mid-1970s and resumed in the College’s modern history of athletics. His support for the program has directly contributed to all that it has accomplished since 1997, including numerous NWAC championships and division titles. Under Jerry’s leadership, the contributions and resources provided by Seven Cedars Casino and the Jamestown Tribe, have provided immeasurable support for Peninsula College Athletics.
Art Feiro
The late Art Feiro was a member of Peninsula College’s faculty when the institution opened its doors in 1961. In addition to teaching and paving the way for the establishment of a marine laboratory, later named for him, Feiro served the college as Athletic Director, Director of Intramurals and Dean of Students. As the secretary-treasurer and executive board member of the Washington Athletic Association of Community Colleges, Art helped found the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges, serving as the NWAACC’s first executive secretary in the early 70s. Art passed away the same year Peninsula College dropped its athletic program in 1982. Art’s impact on Peninsula College and the entire NWAACC was so great, each year this college – and the NWAACC – give annual awards in his name.
Kathy Murphy-Carey
Kathy Murphy-Carey was hired by Art Feiro in 1975 as a counselor, volleyball coach and tennis coach. She was also named as Peninsula’s College’s Women’s Athletic Commissioner and served that role from 1975-1982. Kathy Murphy-Carey continued in her role as a faculty member and counselor during the period Peninsula was without athletics, and returned to her Commissioner role when the College re-launched men’s and women’s basketball in 1997. Since ’97, Kathy then, she has served as North Region Chair, Women’s Basketball Committee Chair and also as a member of the NWAACC Executive Board. She also played a significant role behind the scenes, serving on hiring committees for coaches, counseling, advising and inspiring student athletes and helping our athletic program win six NWAACC championships in the last four years. She Murphy-Carey was inducted into the NWAACC Hall of Fame in 2014.
Wally Sigmar
Dr. Sigmar became President of Peninsula College in 1995 and was instrumental in bringing athletics back to Peninsula College in 1997 and improving the college’s athletic facility. The college fielded men’s and women’s basketball teams starting in the fall of 1997 and added men’s soccer and women’s softball in the fall of 2000. Sigmar was inducted into the NWAACC Hall of Fame in 1995 for winning five NWAACC championships during an 11-year coaching career at Skagit Valley College (1974-1982). Peninsula’s fourth President passed away in 2000, just two months before the first Pirate soccer team took the field. Both Skagit Valley College and Peninsula College have facilities in his name and we also have an annual award we give to a student athlete in his name.