Share
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Not everyone is born with the athletic potential to become a sports Hall-of-Famer.
But Fresno County youth have the opportunity to hear how local sports legends developed the habits that helped them on and off the field.
Students from Granite Ridge Intermediate School and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Fresno County recently toured the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame inside the Save Mart Center at Fresno State.
Yvette Roberts: “Struggle Is Real, but You Can Succeed’
During one of the tours, former Fresno State and European basketball star Yvette Roberts, a 2016 inductee, told the youth that growing up in southwest Fresno she faced barriers and hardships.
Roberts told the students, “I know the struggle is real, but I also know that determination and working hard can get you a good job, can get you avenues for success.”
“I am very excited to bring these students out to see our Hall of Fame and really learn through the stories of all our Hall-of-Famers,” says Gena Strang-Behrens, the organization’s board president and a 2005 inductee following an All-American softball career at Fresno State.
“We really have an opportunity to use the stories of these great Hall-of-Famers to make a difference with kids,” says past board president Walt Byrd Jr. of the interactive Hall of Fame and the curriculum being developed by the Fresno County Superintendent of Education. “This is the whole culmination of what we’re trying to do.”
$1.5 Million Facility Opened in 2022
The FAHOF opened the doors of its $1.5 million permanent home in September of last year by inducting Marian Battles (volleyball), the late Mac Foster (boxing), Connie Gooch (basketball), Kathleen McCarthy (golf), Ron Scott (baseball) and the 1974-76 Hoover High girls basketball team and the 1955 Fresno Cardinals minor-league baseball team before an audience of 500.
School and youth groups that would like to tour the Hall of Fame can contact Byrd: walt@fresnoahof.org
Check out the full list of FAHOF inductees at this link.

RELATED TOPICS:
Republican US House Committee Releases Thousands of Epstein Files
4 hours ago
They Were Convicted of Gang Crimes. New CA Supreme Court Rulings Trim Their Sentences
5 hours ago
US Congress Returns, With One Month to Avert Government Shutdown
6 hours ago
Trump Says His Administration Will Ask Supreme Court for Expedited Ruling on Tariffs
6 hours ago
Trump Says He’s Committed to Sending National Guard Troops to Chicago
6 hours ago
Fresno Police Arrest Teen After Traffic Stop Leads to Foot Chase, Firearm Recovery
6 hours ago
Trump Dismisses Rumors He Is in Ill Health, Calls Them ‘Fake’
6 hours ago
Fresno Man Caught With 1,500 Fentanyl Pills Sentenced to Five Years
3 hours ago
Categories

Fresno Man Caught With 1,500 Fentanyl Pills Sentenced to Five Years

California Jury Clears Pop Star Cardi B of Assault Allegations in Civil Lawsuit

Republican US House Committee Releases Thousands of Epstein Files

They Were Convicted of Gang Crimes. New CA Supreme Court Rulings Trim Their Sentences
