Who are all those other people with their names on northern Nevada’s best school grounds, newsletter forums, and gyms?
The RGJ is looking for the names on some of the other courts and gyms in Northern Nevada, who the other people with those symptoms are.
Last week we covered 3A/2A, and this week we’re in the schools that play soccer in North 5A.
Here is a brief overview of the names of all the camps in Northern Nevada, a brief summary of memories, reports, and data provided through the chapters of the elders.
Plus: This is our home! The names of the sports facilities of the best 3A/2A schools in Northern Nevada
The football stadium is named after DJ Benardis, a student at the school and a football player.
He died in a twist of automotive fate in 1996 towards the end of his senior year. I was making plans to study at Notre-Dame.
In Manitoba, he served as president of the National Honor Society and served as president of his freshman, sophomore, and junior classes.
The football box is named after Nancy Sweet, a relative of Mango. His circle of relatives donated cash to the football box after his death in 1999.
The softball court is named after Dave and Bonnie Hargrove. Dave (with Bonnie’s support) trained for several years at it and helped build the softball court and canoes at the ‘s’ current location off the coast of southern Virginia.
The baseball box is Ron McNutt Field for the guy who did the most of his workouts at Carson High (he also coached Galena). McNutt recorded a record of 783-298, which was the state record at the time.
Over the course of 29 seasons, from 1976 to 2004, McNutt won two state titles in 1979 and 1992. He won more than 1000 games with the Carson Capitols Summer League team, which he created and coached from 1978 to 2001.
The track and field facility is Jim Frank Track
Frank is very concerned about Nevada’s youth in Carson’s schools and community. He has been a trainer and science instructor at Carson Junior High and Carson High.
Frank died of cancer at the age of June 1987.
The Carson Gymnasium is the Morse Gymnasium Burley. Il former director and coach of Carson. Burley played as a quarterback on the Chadron State football team for 3 years in a row after World War II.
He was a teacher, coach and director of Carson. In 1978, he was named “Man of the Year” through Carson City for his network service. In 1982, Carson’s new sports facility was called the Morse R. Burley Sports Complex.
Carson’s basketball court named Tom Andreasen Court in 2016 after his death from cancer in 2015.
Andreasen, a longtime basketball coach in Virginia City and Carson, won 212 games from 1969 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2000, adding two state titles. His Carson team won the state in 1975. A northern team did not win again until 2006.
Andreasen played basketball for 4 years at Storey County High School University, the Muckers earned the state name as a rookie in 1959 and as a senior in 1962. He then played basketball at the University of Nevada.
He served as Athletic Director of Carson High.
Carson’s box has no related names.
The Tigers have two facilities named after people. The box is named after Keith “Duke” Roman in 1996 and the basketball court is named after Randy Green.
Roman, a fifth-generation Nevadan, graduated from Bishop Manogue in 1959 and then attended the University of Nevada, Reno.
Roman was an assistant football coach for 34 years, a high school basketball coach for 20 years, and a high school baseball coach for 10 years.
In 2006, Roman was inducted into the Nevada Coach Hall of Fame.
The basketball court is named after Green, a longtime coach who won the 2A Boys’ State Championship in 1978-1979.
In soccer, the Lancers play in Ken Dalton’s box at John Robb Stadium.
Dalton McQueen’s first coach, a position he held from 1983 to 2008. He won 228 games at McQueen and 68 at North Tahoe, winning 11 regional soccer titles and six state titles in 27 years with the Lancers.
He won 79. 4% of his games, won 3 winning streaks of at least 20 games and sent 4 players to the NFL. Dalton passed away in 2013.
John “Slug” Flynn McQueen’s first basketball director and coach and gym is named after him.
He won 83 games as a men’s basketball coach at the Sparks from 1968 to 1973, winning 3 zone names. He had 21 wins in the 1996 season at McQueen, qualifying for the zone name match. The tournaments were “Zone”, before being renamed “Regionals” in the early 2000s.
Flynn trained gymnastics in Wooster and baseball in Wooster and Sparks, where he won a zone title.
He was McQueen’s first director and retired in 1990. He graduated from Sparks High, where he played soccer and basketball and was named “Educator of the Year. “
The McQueen baseball box is named after Jim Kuraisa, owner of Bi-State Petroleum and donated an amount of cash to have the land on campus.
Before that, McQueen Baseball trained and played at Moana Stadium.
Reed’s football home, Sbragia Field, is named after Nye Sbragia, who was a security guard at Sparks High.
Reed’s baseball team plays at Lee Mitchell Field. Mitchell’s chief gardener at Reed.
The Reed Gymnasium is named after Paul Kautz, a 40-year-old trainer there, as well as Bishop Manogue and Battle Mountain. Kautz was inducted into the NIAA Hall of Fame in 2014. The gym was named in his honor in 2003.
He was in Reed when the school opened in 1974 and coached the Raiders for 14 seasons with an overall record of 240 wins and 120 losses. State Finalist Trophy (1979, 55-51 loss to Bishop Gorman).
Gray succeeded Kautz as the head basketball coach for Reed’s school children and held the position for the next 18 years.
The gym field named in Gray’s honor in 2012.
Reed’s athletic facility is Dave Nolte’s facility. Nolte is a long-time athletic trainer at the school.
As a coach, Nolte won 19 state titles in track and field and cross country and led the effort for Washoe County’s first all-weather athletic facility in Reed.
Almost everything at Reno High is named after someone, and the names are a walk through the city’s history.
The entire sports complex is named after Bud Beasley, who started Reno High’s baseball program in 1936, the same year he began training there.
He played minor league baseball and then coached and instructor for a long time in Reno.
Note: He and his wife Nellie went on and raised 17 children.
The football arena is named Foster Field, after longtime coach Herb Foster, who won state football titles for Reno and added six in basketball and 3 on the court, for a total of 18.
Their Reno High football won 119 games from 1923 to 1948.
Foster was never able to see the field. He died of a central attack on Christmas Eve 1948 at the age of 50, two years before the determination of the camp.
Reno’s baseball field is named Zunini Field in honor of Dr. Donald Zunini, a longtime optometrist in Reno.
He attended and graduated from Reno High School in 1938 and half of the Reno High State Championship football team in 1936.
At a Reno High banquet held in 1997, he was one of many honorees. The evening’s program included an excerpt about Zunini: “The three things Zuke is most remembered for were his determination for young athletics, his great sense of humor, and his way of dressing. “red socks. There have been many other young people who have suffered over the years zuke has taken under his wing. For many of those young people, Zuke was their coach, father and friend. “
He has also been involved in many of the city’s youth sports leagues and was the founder of the Don Zunini Memorial Teen Golf Tournament, which lasted 25 years and brought together many PGA and LPGA players.
He died on May 12, 1975.
The Reno gym, which says “Reno Hello” downtown, is named after Link Piazzo, owner of The Sportsman, a sporting goods store in downtown Reno with his brother Chet Piazzo, and a wonderful benefactor of the school.
In addition, the alumni center across the street from Reno High is the Link Piazzo Alumni Center.
In 1938, Link and Chet founded the sporting goods store. In December 1941, Link enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He became a B-25 pilot and flew 67 World War II combat missions. He won 14 medals for his service, and added the Distinguished Cross.
Link has served as president of the Western Sporting Goods Association and the National Sporting Goods Association.
Link piazzo in 2014.
The only site similar to athletics in Spanish Springs is the house softball canoe, named after Jaclyn Picollo, who was an assistant softball coach and schoolteacher.
He died in January 2022.
Jim Krajewski covers the best school and youth sports for the Reno Gazette Journal. Follow him on Twitter @RGJPreps. Support his paintings by subscribing to RGJ. com.