Inductees

As a 36-year award-winning educator at Antioch junior and senior high schools, a championship cross-country coach, an AHS Boosters Club President and a chairman, researcher and docent of the Antioch Sports Legends Hall of Fame, Joe Olenchalk has given more to one community than many neighborhoods have combined. Read More “Joe Olenchalk”

Antioch High School 1995

In the storied history of Antioch High School baseball, the early to mid-1990s might have been the programs best. Much of that had to do with a talented shortstop named Brian Oliver. Read More “Brian Oliver”

Antioch High School 1970

They hadn’t beaten archrival Pittsburg in 22 seasons, so the Panthers had the will, the team, the talent and they had Steve Parks. Read More “Stephen Parks”

Mike Reale was a poster boy for old-school Antioch.

Country strong and blessed with a blue-collar work ethic, Reale was the rock of Gibraltar. The king of the playing fields. A kid for all seasons. Read More “Mike Reale”

To win a CIF team title in any sport takes some extra special and even unexpected performances.

Pat Sweeney, a 1988 graduate, came through with a doozy helping Antioch High win its only State wrestling title that same year at the University of Pacific in Stockton. Read More “Pat Sweeney”

Antioch High School 1996

Starting in the middle 1980s, Antioch High School churned out collegiate golfers almost annually. Read More “Mike Vera”

Antioch High School 1983

He was known affectionately by teammates and fearfully by opponents as “The Mauler.” By the end of his two-year wrestling career, he was better known as the first ever Antioch High School grappler to place at the State meet. Read More “Kraig Walker”

As Deer Valley High School’s first distinguished female volleyball player, Gabrielle Abernathy is still regarded as its greatest. Read More “Gabrielle Abernathy”

He stood only 5-foot-6 and weighed barely 150 pounds, but everything about Niles Almarinez on the soccer field was big. Read More “Niles Almarinez”