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Post by carookie on Jul 25, 2024 9:31:29 GMT -6
I don't know if this belongs on this board, please feel free to move if needed.
I have been tasked with creating our school's athletic Hall of Fame and I am hoping to get any ideas of what others have seen/done. Our school is 15 years old, and is about 2,500 year to year in enrollment. We've had our fair share of good athletes make it through here and am looking for any and all ideas.
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Post by kylem56 on Jul 25, 2024 22:51:32 GMT -6
While our school has been around since the 40s (well kind of, we were an all boys school and merged with the all girls school in town in 1986), our Hall of Fame began only like 15 years ago. Some of the rules they have:
-Person must be graduated at least 4 years
-Nominee must be an alumni unless they are being nominated as a coach
-have a panel of former alumni and coaches
"unwritten rules"
- still passes the character test
- if they are inducting an individual, they try to see if a team that person was apart of had a great season as well to induct the individual and team separately but bring in more people
- Title 9 doesn't legally apply but still try to have a decent balance if possible
- As far as the public knows, Whoever is the chairman/chairwoman of the committee signed an agreement they will never discuss the votes or reasoning behind why or why a person didn't make it (it sounds stupid but we have had people write letters, show up at school board meetings over this stupid sh!t)
- timing it up with 10 year, 15, 20, 25 year anniversaries of teams always seems to help
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Post by mariner42 on Jul 26, 2024 6:22:06 GMT -6
I'm part of our committee and am the MC for the event itself.
Selection criteria (off the top of my head):
Six years from graduation
If we're discussing high school careers, were they outstanding in one thing or very good in multiple sports? What were their accolades (all-league, all-section, all-state, etc)?
If we're discussing post-HS, what have they done that was outstanding? Did they have special college careers? Professional career? Do something distinctive?
We also have an unwritten character test where certain people have been left out because they were such a POS during and after their time at our school. We have tried to make a more concerted effort in the last few induction cycles to have more balance in gender and more balance in sports, which I think is a good thing!
I'll give some examples of selections and why:
A few years back we selected a woman who didn't have much of an athletic career at our school, but was a pioneer in skateboarding and particularly women's skateboarding.
We have a professional skier in the HOF who was a solid FB player but not even an all-league kind of guy, but has had an outstanding ski career.
We have a coach who was a middling basketball player in HS but won a D2 natty as a HC, so pretty outstanding post-HS career.
There's definitely some discussion about who will bring more butts to the event, but that's not a primary concern as much as honoring the people being inducted. We also take special circumstances into consideration, like is this person likely to be alive for the next round of selections, which is always a weird topic. We've also saved younger candidates for when we need them to boost a weaker class. Make it work for you.
My brain's all over the place this morning, but I think it's a cool thing to do and it's fun to be a part of.
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Post by chi5hi on Jul 26, 2024 16:37:02 GMT -6
You can have HOF for athletics and a second HOF for accolades.
Anyone who has graduated from your school and has played professional sports or has medaled in the olympics.
Anyone who has graduated from your school and has accomplished greatness in...business...service (e.g. politics)...academe...military.
We have both.
Get yearbook photos and standardize them for size and frames for presentation.
Athletic HOF pictures displayed in a prominent location (entry hallway for example) and accolade HOF on the opposite wall.
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