West High to induct second class

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Dave Thorpe
on May 29, 2009 12:08 PM | | Comments (6) |

West Torrance High will induct its second Athletic Hall of Fame Class tonight at the Los Verdes Country Club in Rancho Palos Verdes. The 12 new inductees slated to be honored include soccer coach Mike Eaton, football and baseball players Gary Kendrick (1969), Andy Center  (1976) and Dave Weatherman (1977), professional baseball player Denny Hocking (1988), track runners Kati Petersen Krumpe (1982) and Valerie Ross Anderson (1979), softball player Rhonda Nelson Feenstra (1984), professional football player (punter) Stan Talley (1977), football and track athlete Mark Knox (1966), wrestler/football player Brian Stranger (1976) and administrator Paul Hawkins.

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By Anonymous on June 2, 2009 11:49 AM

Does anyone know whatn the criteria for getting in the Hall of Fame at West is?

By Dean Lofgren on June 3, 2009 5:09 PM

Congratulations to this great group of former Warriors! El Camino was blessed to have had a few of these fine athletes continue their successes here. Enjoy the ceremony!

By anonymous 2 on June 13, 2009 4:18 PM

huh

By anonymous on July 24, 2009 5:07 PM

Criteria for West High Hall of fame members?Kiss ass on all administrators especially pricipal. Poor sportsmanship. Coach your own kid it doesnt matter if you know what your doing. Coach Holt sure as hell doesnt know what he is doing.Your parents must never say a negative word about the coaching.Praise the play of any player whose parent is on the staff.Drink booze until you are as drunk as coach Peterson.Dont dare come up with good coaching ideas you will be taken care of.

By Timothy Scully on August 4, 2009 1:43 PM

Anonymous folks sending off drunken e-mails critical of those who have had success is just cheap and classless.

Since this last fellow on July 24th seems to slighted, what have you done to deserve any honor of any kind other than just another wannabe, wish to be, thought you were couch guy.

I am sure you were all-league in your own mind, and can convince anyone that you should be in the bigs had it not been for one these coaches recognizing your core talent and sending you packing.

You are still living in high school as a disgruntled teenager. I can imagine that the course of your life has followed suit.

Time to grow up and move on.

By Sean Griffin on August 16, 2009 9:36 AM

Met four of those people inducted. And played under Dave Weatherman. Very nice stuff. Proud to be a West High Warrior!

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Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports for more than two years.

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