Post by TheShadow on Mar 16, 2007 20:19:24 GMT -5
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS - Jim Plunkett, a former Heisman Trophy winner at Stanford and Super Bowl MVP with the Raiders, and Terry Steinbach, who played with Oakland and Minnesota in a 14-year major league baseball career, head this year's class of inductees into the National High School Hall of Fame.
Plunkett, Steinbach and 10 others will be inducted July 4 at the annual summer meeting of the National Federation of State High School Associations in Palm Desert, Calif.
Plunkett played football, baseball and wrestling at James Lick High School in San Jose, Calif., and won the Heisman Trophy at Stanford in 1970. He quarterbacked the Raiders to victory in the 1981 Super Bowl, when he was named the game's MVP, and again in 1984.
Steinbach played hockey and baseball at New Ulm (Minn.) High School, setting school records for career goals and career home runs, and was the Big Ten baseball co-player of the year at Minnesota in 1983.
He played with Oakland for 11 years, including the 1989 World Series championship, and finished his career with the Minnesota Twins in 1997-99.
The other inductees include Clyde Duncan, track and field at Des Moines (Iowa) North High School in the early 1960s and currently the track and field coach at Texas Southern; Jim Johnson, hockey at Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) Cranbrook; Charlie Wedemeyer, football, baseball and basketball at Honolulu Punahou in the 1960s; Rick Insell, who coached Shelbyville (Tenn.) Central to 10 state girls basketball titles and now is the women's basketball coach at Middle Tennessee State; John Bagonzi, who won seven state baseball championships and five state basketball titles at Woodsville (N.H.) High School; Lewis Benitz, who has coached 17 wrestling championships at Lincoln High School in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.; and Joan Wells, who won 15 state championships as volleyball coach at Lawrence (Kan.) High School.
The others are Jane Hansen, field hockey and lacrosse official in New Jersey; Sam Short, a football and basketball official in Alabama; and Tim Stevens, a high school sports writer for the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer the past 40 years.