49ers quarterback among eight to be inducted at Spartans-Nevada
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SANTA CLARA – San Francisco 49ers Pro Bowl quarterback Jeff Garcia is among the eight members to be inducted into the 2003 class of the San Jose State University Sports Hall of Fame.
Festivities begin Thursday, September 18, at the San Jose State-Nevada football game and conclude with a formal induction ceremony, Friday, September 19, in the Barrett Ballroom of the San Jose State Student Union.
The 2003 class also includes five more student-athletes and two coaches. Janice Moodie (a two-time LPGA Tour winner), Stacey Johnson (a 1980 U.S. Olympic Team fencer and current member of the United States Olympic Committee’s Board of Directors), Ron Livers (a former world and American record holder in the triple jump), Hank Pfister (an All-American tennis player, who once was ranked among the top-20 singles players in the world during his professional career) and Anthony Telford (who has nine seasons of major league baseball service pitching in the American and National Leagues) will join Garcia as the student-athlete inductees.
Lee Walton (who coached San Jose State to its only national championship in water polo) and the late DeWitt Portal (a former Spartan boxing coach) are the two coaches to be inducted into the 2003 Hall of Fame class.
Tickets for the 2003 San Jose State University Sports Hall of Fame ceremonies are priced at $75 each. Full tables of 10 can be purchased for $750 and $1,000 each. For reservations and additional information, contact Sheri Bragg of San Jose State University at 924-1692.
