As a high school football player and wrestler, it would be hard to find an athletic resume stronger than that of Ed Blanton. While Ed was blessed with great size, it was his athletic ability that allowed him to dominate…
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Michael “Buddy” Connor
In terms of individual performances on the football field, it could be argued that no one in the early 2000s enjoyed a more successful season than Buddy Connor in the 2002 season. The Napa Register wrote that, “Buddy keyed Napa’s…
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Jerry Dunlap
As the son of a football coach and college athletic director, it is no surprise that Jerry Dunlap would follow in his dad’s footsteps, and it was Napa High’s good fortune that landed Dunlap in Napa. Dunlap grew up in…
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Jessi Emery Gibson
Jessi Emery-Gibson was a gifted basketball and softball player during NHS years. Despite fighting Hirschsprung’s disease which required over thirty surgeries, Emery-Gibson played at Napa High with great passion and determination. Her basketball coach Darci Lewis Ward said, “I was…
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Ron Fisher
Ron Fisher graduated in the storied 1972 Napa High class whose teams won North Bay League titles in football, basketball, and baseball during their three-year high school career. Ron is joining hall of fame members and classmates Stewart Walkenhorst, Rick…
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Mike Gibson
Much like fellow inductee Ed Blanton, there was not much Mike Gibson could not do as a lineman on the Napa High Football team. Gibson was not a typical “big and burly lineman” who relied strictly on size. Rather he…
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Carlos Gonzalez
At the conclusion of the 1975 Napa High football season Carlos Gonzalez won virtually every honor and award available to a high school lineman. Playing both offense and defense, Gonzalez seldom, if ever, came off the field during his high…
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Marty James
With over forty years working for the Napa Valley Register and serving as Sports Editor, it must be acknowledged that Marty James is a treasure to the Napa Valley sports scene. The prominence, consistency and fairness of high school sports…
Joe Richmond
Joe Richmond has a passion for two things, which when blended together, made the Napa High experience even better for students. Devoted to shaping student athletes and the game of soccer, Richmond used these passions to motivate and educate students…
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Ira C. Smith
Blessed with a distinctive voice, since 1976 Ira C. Smith has been the “Sports Voice of the Napa Valley” heard on KVON radio. Smith got his start in broadcasting while serving in the military where a major who liked the…