Men’s Standouts
Player: Dwight Hanawalt
La Verne Career: 1938-41, 1946-86 (professor, coach)
Honor: ULV Hall of Fame inductee.
Notes: Director of Athletics (1946-60); Dean of Students (1956-70); Chairman of the Department of Physical Education (1946-86); Three-year letterman in football, basketball and tennis.
Player: Shirley Moore
La Verne Career: 1940-43
Honors: ULV Hall of Fame inductee; Lambda “Athlete of the Year” (1943); “Man of the Year” in the city of Covina (1973).
Notes: Coached and taught 27 years for Chino, Baldwin Park and Covina unified school districts.
Player: Mark Lehmer
La Verne Career: 1925-28
Honor: ULV Hall of Fame inductee
Notes: Played five sports-football, basketball, baseball, track and tennis; Returned to La Verne in 1929 to coach all the frosh teams (football, baseball, track, basketball).
Player: Dave Plaster
La Verne Career: 1984-85
Honors: First-team all-SCIAC in 1984 and 1985.
Women’s Standouts
Player: Nancy Blickenstaff
La Verne Career: 1959-92 (coach, professor)
Honors: ULV Hall of Fame inductee, Blickenstaff Tennis Pavilion built in her honor in 1993.
Notes: First Women’s Director of Athletics at La Verne (1959-90); Physical Education Department chair (1985-92); Academic adviser (1959-92); Dean of Women (1960-66); Professor of Physical Education (1959-92).
Player: Jean Snyder Brennecke
La Verne Career: 1953-56
Honor: ULV Hall of Fame inductee.
Notes: Physical Education instructor for 25 years (22 of them at Bonita High School); Coached 18 years of tennis; First girls athletic director at Bonita.
Player: Mary Butters Killinger
La Verne Career: 1961-64
Honors: ULV Hall of Fame inductee as four-year star in tennis, volleyball, basketball and softball.
Player: Mary Hanawalt
La Verne Career: 1974-77
Honors: ULV Hall of Fame inductee for tennis, basketball and softball.
Notes: Captain of all three sports during her junior and senior years; Played on No. 1 doubles team.
Player: Kari Pucci
La Verne Career: 1990-1993
Honors: First-team all-SCIAC selection in 1992 and 1993.
Note: Took home all-conference softball awards 1989-91.