Category: Members of the Month

February 2021 ~ With six older brothers, Lisa Channel (Jackson, 1982) was always around sports, especially basketball. She’d follow a brother to Unthank park and get in on the intense

February 2021 ~ The fan mail still arrives at his home in Lake Oswego every day, even though it has been 51 years since Pete Ward (Jefferson, 1955) played in

January 2021 ~ Mary Lou Mulflur (Grant, 1976) grew up with three brothers and five sisters and a father, Bill, who was a well-known sportswriter and editor for the Oregon

January 2021 ~ Hired out of Portland State in 1968 as a physical eduction teacher and the track and field and cross-country coach at Madison High, Bill Franzke (Coach, 1960s-1990s)

December 2020 ~ Growing up, Kelli Dufficy (Franklin, 1990) of Southeast Portland felt “accepted” playing sports. “I grew up with a single, working mom, and I started in sports when

December 2020 ~ After an extraordinarily decorated career coaching track and field at Benson High School, Leon McKenzie (Benson, 1971) says it’s not the state championship trophies or records that

November 2020 ~ Lorena Legarde’s (Washington-Monroe, 1981) standout athletic career in high school and at the University of Portland helped lead her to a successful, now 30-plus-year career with Bonneville

November 2020 ~ Jack Dunn (Lincoln, 1947) has remained active on several fronts. Now 91, the former Cleveland and Wilson High School and Portland State University baseball coach has written