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Our View: Panhandle Sports HOF Welcomes Another Stellar Class 

AGN Media Editorial Board | Amarillo Globe-News 

In one of the space's incredible customs, athletic or something else, the most current class of honorees was drafted into the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame during functions last end of the week at the Amarillo Civic Center Grand Plaza. 안전놀이터

The Panhandle sports sanctuary perceives athletic greatness and offers a point by point picture of what significance resembles, paying little heed to the field of contest. 

The Class of 2021, the 63rd gathering to be cherished, brings its own great accreditations. The class comprises of previous long-term young ladies b-ball mentor Joe Lombard, previous Groom football star Steve Garmon, previous Pampa b-ball champion Rayford Young, previous Pampa track extraordinary Sharon Moultrie-Bruner, and previous Nazareth b-ball star Noel Johnson. 

It is hard to live anyplace in the state or be even the most easygoing fanatic of young ladies b-ball and not know about Lombard's unbelievable inheritance. In only over forty years, Lombard drove groups to 19 state titles and won 91% of his games during a 42-year profession at Nazareth (six state titles) and Canyon (13 state titles). Gracious, no doubt, he likewise drove crosscountry groups at each school to an aggregate of seven state crowns. 

En route, he constructed a standing for greatness in the manner he worked programs, directed youthful competitors and accentuated how little subtleties could be the contrast among winning and losing. 

"Being a decent pioneer for youngsters, building connections, attempting to have the right sort of effect in youngsters' lives, here and there the court. That is the stuff I need to be associated with," he said in our story. 

It denotes the seventh lobby of popularity wherein he has been accepted. Others remember the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame for Knoxville, Tennessee, the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame and the National High School Hall of Fame. 

Perhaps the most impactful minutes accompanied the enlistment of Johnson, who passed on June 9, 2020, from ovarian malignancy at 47 years old. Johnson helped lead Nazareth to Class 1A state ball titles in 1990 and 1991 preceding marking with Texas Tech. She was an individual from the Lady Raiders' 1993 public title group as well as being a three-time all-Southwest Conference decision. She scored 1,244 focuses in her 135-game Tech vocation. 

"She was a West Texas young lady, completely," her school mentor, Marsha Sharp, said during the service. "She cherished this piece of the country and was consistently pleased to address it. I figure this would have implied such a huge amount to her." 

Following her playing days, Johnson proceeded to mentor for over 20 years, including 12 at Midwestern State University. She additionally has been respected by the SWC Hall of Fame, the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame and the Texas Tech Athletics Hall of Fame. 

Youthful, the first of two competitors with a Pampa association, driven the Harvesters to the 1996 Class 4A state title, scoring an aggregate of 67 focuses in the group's elimination round and last triumphs. He endorsed with Texas Tech and went on to an astonishing vocation with the Red Raiders as a double cross second-group all-Big 12 Conference decision. He completed his Tech profession with 1,525 focuses and positions among the school's best 20 scorers record-breaking and is additionally among the school chiefs in helps and takes. 

The other previous Pampa star is Moultrie-Bruner, a 1970s champion whose strong point was track. In secondary school, she contended in the 100, ran on the 440 and 880 hand-off groups and since quite a while ago hopped. Following her prep vocation, she strolled in the Texas Tech track group and turned into the school's first female double cross all-America entertainer in 1981 and 1982. 

Moultrie-Bruner was a seven-time public qualifier who went on to a heavenly track and crosscountry training vocation at South Grand Prairie High School for over 30 years. She is additionally an individual from the Texas Tech Athletics Hall of Honor and the Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame. 

Garmon, in the mean time, was a two-way beginning lineman for Groom during four periods of contest in the last part of the 1950s and aided the Tigers arrive at the 1958 Class B local title, which was the extent that Class B projects could progress around then. He went on to TCU where he was a first-group All-SWC determination in 1963 and 1964. 

Considerably more great, however, was his post-athletic profession with the Secret Service, where he rose through the positions from specialist to agent chief and helped with assurance during a range of six official organizations. 

We compliment the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2021 and express gratitude toward them for the exceptional athletic recollections they have given as the years progressed.