Alan Sloan

Inaugural Farragut High School Hall of Fame Class — the Class of 2013.

W ell into the second decade ofthe 21st century, FarragutHigh School brass came up

with an idea that’s caught fire:

■ ALAN SLOANasloan@farragutpress.com

In addition to his professionalsuccess as a injury law attorneylong after earning All-SEC hon-ors as a Tennessee VolunteersFootball defensive back in 1970,Tim Priest’s Farragut roots rundeep.

A former town of Farragutjudge in the early to mid-2000s,Priest is a Town resident whosewife, Betsy, is a former Farragut

High School guidance counselor.Their chil-dren, LauraMorris andAdam Priest,both gradu-ated FHS ashonored ath-letes.

Priest, apartner inthe down-town Knox-ville firm of Pryor Flynn Priest

and Harber, will serve askeynote speaker during SecondAnnual Farragut High SchoolHall of Fame Banquet andInduction Ceremony.

“I’m honored to be asked tocome as speaker. I hope I can beworthy of that,” Priest, UTFootball color analyst on TheVol Network with Bob Keslingthe past 15 seasons, said. “I’veseen a lot of outstanding ath-letes in a lot of different sports,and a lot of really good coaches

at Farragut. “My children played for some

of them,” Priest added. “I’ve gotsome appreciation for what’sgone on there through theyears.”

About the Hall of Fame, “Ithought it was a great idea whenI heard about it last year. MostlyI read about it in your all’spaper [farragutpress], aboutthem starting up a FarragutHigh School sports Hall ofFame,” he said. “Last year’s

class and this year’s class arevery worthy nominees. … Just alot of great athletes and an ath-letic heritage at the school withstate championships and allkinds of things.”

Going back to one of lastyear’s inaugural Hall of Fameinductees, “I actually coachedNeil Clabo when he was a fresh-man at UT,” Priest said aboutgraduate assistant coaching hedid under then head coach BillBattle.

Priest

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Recognize the school’s “storied” athlet-ic history by creating a Hall of Fame.

“I’m not sure why this has taken so longbecause we have a storied past,” Farragutathletic director Seth Smith said during aFebruary 2013 interview. “[Softball headcoach] David Moore and I got togetherand talked about it and we put together acommittee.”

The resulting recognition has growninto a special event, as Second AnnualFHS Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet andInduction Ceremony for Class of 2014begins at 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 1, in FHSCommons.

While Smith said inductees are chosenby a “points system,” as determined by avote of Hall of Fame Committee mem-bers, “Points are gained by their highschool career, college career, post collegeif they played professionally,” he added.

Also considered: “Is this a person whorepresents Farragut High School well?”Smith said.

Inaugural FHS Hall of Fame Class of2013, which was officially inductedMarch 9 during a similar banquetceremony, featured 10 athletes and sixcoaches.

Ex-student/athletes inducted were thelate Jimmy Elliott (1980, basketball,baseball); Bill Bates (Class of 1979, foot-ball), his sister, Rachel Bates Bellefeuille(1989, volleyball, basketball, golf, soft-ball); Neil Clabo (1971, football, basket-ball, baseball); Beth Willis Dolente(1990, basketball, volleyball); ShannonSimmons (1994, track and field, basket-ball); Kevin Yeager (2000, track and field,basketball, soccer); Katherine MarshallMoore (1987, track and field, cross coun-try); Tracie Foels (1988, soccer, basket-

ball) and Tyson Clabo (2000, football,basketball).

Former coaches elected were the lateJack Carr, the late Bill Clabo, Bill Parker,John Heatherly, Lynn E. Sexton andLendon Welch.

Erik Gerhardt, i105.3 WFIV’s “RadioVoice of Farragut Athletics,” is scheduledto return as emcee Feb. 1, leading a ban-quet and ceremony honoring eight mem-ber from the Class of 2014 (see individualprofiles on pages 2D and 3D): formerplayers to be inducted are PeteBillingsley (Class of 1972, basketball,football, baseball); Marvena AlmondRuddy (1992, track and field, basketball);Andy Baksa (2002, cross-country, track);Michael McKenry (2003, baseball); JennyMcGrath Weaver (1988, swimming), andJenni Miller Metcalf (2000, volleyball).

Ex-coaches to be inducted are Scott

McKenzie (track and field, golf, 1981-2010) and Jerry Cannon (1966-88, basket-ball).

Athletic Service Award will be present-ed to Doug Horne (FHS Class of 1963),prominent real estate developer andowner of Republic Newspapers, Inc.,(parent company of farragutpress) forcontributions to Admirals athletics.

A Tennessee Volunteers theme remainswith the event’s keynote speaker. TimPriest, Knoxville attorney, former All-SECdefensive back at Tennessee (1968-70)and Vol Network radio commentator forUT Football, is this year’s speaker.Johnny Majors, former UT Football starplayer and head coach, was 2013 keynotespeaker.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at thedoor. To purchase tickets, call 865-966-9775 and ask for Smith or Moore.

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After frosh CC state title, running career takes offFor Andy Baksa, competitive running was only

an exercise to stay in shape for his real love as ayoung boy — soccer.

Then came the unexpected:Baksa won the TSSAA ClassAAA boys cross-country cham-pionship as a Farragut HighSchool freshman in fall 1998.

“Shocked would be anunderstatement, I thought Iwould be top 15 at best. … Ihad never really been a run-ner before that year,” saidBaksa, FHS Class of 2002, who went on to anotherstate title his senior year along with track statetitles in 1600 and 3200 meters plus numerous KILand Region 1-AAA championships.

“Winning state as a freshman is, to this day,probably my greatest running moment ever, eventhrough college and post-collegiate running andeverything.”

Baksa’s success as a college distance runner —All-conference in cross country at Belmont, thenAll-SEC in 10k with Tennessee track — alsohelped him earn points toward induction into FHSAthletic Hall of Fame’s 2014 Class.

Until that first state title, “I only ran crosscountry to get in shape for soccer,” Baksa said. “I

didn’t think I was going to run track until the endof my first semester in high school. Winning statewas probably the deal-breaker on soccer. …Mostly because I realized I wasn’t that good atsoccer, that I was a lot better at running.”

With UT cross-country, “I was mostly their sec-ond[-ranked] runner,” Baksa, a physical therapistat Results Physiotherapy in Maryville, said.

As for lasting friendships begun with FHS ath-letics, “My best friends to this day are still formerFarragut High School cross country teammates,”Baksa said. “… Obviously the coaching there wasfantastic. Coach [Kellie] Ivens and coach [Scott]McKenzie did a great job. I don’t keep in touch asmuch as I’d like to to this day.”

Upon hearing the news about his induction, “Itwas definitely exciting, I was definitely pleased,”Baksa said. “Obviously it’s a huge honor, not onlyto be selected, but to be selected in the secondyear, which I think is pretty meaningful. To be putin that early.”

Finishing second in 2010 Knoxville Marathon,“I’m still the fastest American ever to run thatcourse,” Baksa said.

Earning a doctorate of physical therapy degreeat UT Chattanooga, Baksa first earned an exercisescience bachelor’s degree at UT Knoxville.

Baksa and wife, Jessica, live in Cedar Bluff.

Baksa

Andy Baksa

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Billingsley’s life course influenced by FHS, FMS coachesAn All-state basketball guard at Farragut High

School during his senior season in 1971-72, PeteBillingsley returned to FHS asa football coach in 1977 forthree years — only after sug-gesting that a young KenSparks come along as headcoach.

Billingsley, currently a per-sonal finance teacher andassistant football coach atRhea County High School inDayton, also has coached andtaught in Metro Atlanta and was an assistant foot-ball coach on Maryville High School’s 1998 statechampionship team.

Heavily involved in social work and Fellowship ofChristian Athletes, Billingsley also started a youthministry called Youth Quake and served as a youthpastor.

A star guard at Carson-Newman College in addi-tion to also winning honors at FHS in football andbaseball, Billingsley’s athletic playing and coachingsuccess has added up to earning a place in FHSAthletic Hall of Fame Class of 2014.

Five of his Farragut coaches “were great rolemodels and probably influenced me to be a teacherand coach myself,” Billingsley said about Lynn E.Sexton, Bobby Henry, Jerry Cannon, the late Bill

Clabo and Lendon Welch. Sexton, his varsity basketball head coach and

2013 FHS Hall of Fame inductee, “Was a tremen-dous man. … He would just hold you accountable.”Billingsley said.

“Coach Henry, who was my [Farragut] MiddleSchool coach, he probably had as big an influenceon me up to this day as anybody,” Billingsley added.

Henry “was a Godly man, a strong Christian man.I remember, he would always tell us we could doanything, ‘there was no such thing as can’t.’ … Hereally instilled in me that anything’s possible,”Billingsley said.

Cannon, Billingsley’s assistant coach at FHS andone of the other seven 2014 Inductees, was and All-American guard at Carson-Newman College in themid-1960s.

“We’d play a lot of one-on-one … It helped mebecause he would beat me pretty bad sometimes,”Billingsley said. “He’d beat you like a drum if hecould. But he was very positive and a good teacher.”

Clabo, then FHS football head coach, and Welch,then assistant football coach among his severalcoaching positions, “were also big influences in mylife,” Billingsley said. Clabo and Welch also were2013 inductees.

Billingsley also became “CAK’s first [boys] soccerand [boys] basketball coach in 1980,” he said.

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No non-sense, to-the-point coach taught by exampleA no-nonsense coach who got his point across

clearly and directly, Jerry Cannon didn’t just givelip service to his coaching mes-sage.

Just coming off an All-American career at Carson-Newman College in the mid-1960s, Cannon would playFarragut High School playersone-on-one — and cut no slack— as an assistant coach.

It was how Cannon helpedhead coach Lynn E. Sextonwin a handful of championships during an 11-yearspan beginning in fall 1966.

Pete Billingsley, former All-state guard at FHS inthe early 1970s, admitted he got roughed up.

“We were just kind of challenging each other.Neil Clabo [Class of 1971] and I did the samething,” said Cannon, a 2014 FHS Athletic Hall ofFame Inductee whose 22 years as a Farragut coachincluded 11 years as Lady Admirals varsity girlsbasketball head coach (1977-78 through 1987-88).

“I wanted to show them a level they could go toto play. … Lynn and I both were disciplinarians.We didn’t put up with any nonsense.”

Although the one-on-one stuff ended, “I didn’tneed to change my way of coaching because I wascoaching girls,” added Cannon, whose 30-year

teaching career at FHS was split between physicaleducation and driver’s education.

Cannon took over the Lady Admirals varsity jobin fall 1977, winning one district championshipduring an 11 year run. As for the biggest singlewin, “We beat the Oak Ridge girls on their homefloor, the first time they’d ever been beaten ontheir home floor,” Cannon said.

As for a favorite moment under Sexton, “A victo-ry against Oak Ridge in the region tournament. Ican’t recall what year,” Cannon said. “Supposedlywe didn’t have a chance.”

About his honor of being named one of twocoaches in the 2014 Class, “Being in there with[coaches inducted into 2013 Class includingSexton] means as much to me as anything, beingalongside the guys I worked with for all thoseyears,” Cannon said.

It all began with an interview for acoaching/teaching job in Knox County by thensuperintendent of school Mildred Doyle. “And shegave me an option to go to Farragut or Gibbs,”Cannon said. “And Mr. [James] Bellamy, I thinkthat was going to be his first year as principal atFarragut, and Mr. Bellamy was my high school his-tory teacher at Powell High School. And also, hehelped in athletics.”

“I thought, ‘Well, I’ll just take Farragut HighSchool,’” Cannon added.

Cannon

Jerry Cannon

Major Leaguer looks back fondly on Pharr, teammatesAn All-American catcher at Middle Tennessee

State University before breaking through as aMajor League Baseball start-ing catcher, Michael McKenrysure hasn’t forgotten hisFarragut High School roots.

“I’ve got to thank coach[Tommy] Pharr for a lot of dif-ferent reasons. Not just for thetype of coach he was, but forthe type of man he was,” saidMcKenry, an All-state catcherat Farragut who helpedPharr’s Admirals win a state championship as asenior in 2003.

Also building Hall of Fame points while startingmuch of two seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates(17 home runs, 64 RBI in 193 MLB games, 2010-2013), McKenry has earned membership in FHSAthletic Hall of Fame Class of 2014.

“Coach Pharr definitely took a chance with me.He threw me into the mix at a very young age. Hehelped me start as a freshman [third base], whichwas not very common at the time at Farragut,”McKenry said.

“He really forced the issue about putting me

behind the plate as a junior,” McKenry added.“Kept me sharp by putting back there a little bitearly on in my career. That’s ultimately the posi-tion that got me to the Major Leagues.”

Part of Pharr’s first state title team in 2003(Pharr won five state crowns at FHS), McKenryrecalled claiming Tennessee’s Class AAA crown inMemphis with a shutout victory versus Munford.

“My senior year was special. We had a bunch ofguys that were completely and utterly for eachother,” said McKenry, who currently is in theColorado Rockies organization. “We were talented,but the thing that made us really special was wewere unselfish. Every single day we showed up atthe ballpark we tried to make each other better.”

Teammates “Craig Cobb and Kyle Waldrop, I stilltalk to all the time,” he added. “Jimmy Kelly wasactually Best Man at my wedding.”

As for his Induction, “It’s an honor and a bless-ing to be named to the Hall of Fame,” saidMcKenry, adding that such honors are “somethingyou dream about as a little kid.”

“To be part of that [athletic] history forever, Imean it’s really special.”

Michael and wife, Jaclyn, live in Murfreesboro.

McKenry

Michael McKenry

A mulit-sport coach with five state crowns, McKenzie praises his athletes, mentorsReflecting on his selection into Farragut High

School Athletic Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014, ScottMcK-enzie praised his mentorsand many talented, dedicatedathletes.

“Obviously I’m honored. Iwas blessed to be around somegreat athletes,” said McKenzie,a coach and teacher at FHS for29 years who skipperedAdmirals track and field tothree consecutive Class AAAstate titles (1998-2000), thenhelped FHS boys golf capture back-to-back crownsin 2009-2010. McKenzie also was a trusted assistantunder Bill Parker, FHS boys track and field skipper,during a string of four consecutive state titles (1991-94), seven total including Lady Admirals track andfield crowns.

That doesn’t even count serving as assistant coachfor football, wrestling, baseball and boys basketballteams.

“Whatever I did personally, you’ve got to havesome good talent” to win big, he said.

An All-star honoree in football (receiver/defensiveback) and baseball (catcher) who graduatedTullahoma High School in 1970, McKenzie pointedto mentors helping influence his career choice.

“My junior high coach in football and basketball, Iguess, had a lot of influence,” McKenzie said about

Bobby Newby. “I was fortunate to be around somegood people. Coach Newby won a few [high schoolfootball] state championships in Nashville.

“Another guy who influenced me, too, was FredGrider,” a former assistant principal at Tullahoma High“who started the first recreation department in thestate of Tennessee,” McKenzie said.

McKenzie described his coaching style as “oldschool, that’s just the way I was brought up.”

Looking back at his overall experience, “I guessnot only having some great athletes, I had some kidswith real good work ethic and good character,”McKenzie said.

“Kevin Yeager’s a good example,” the coach saidabout a multi-state champion [Class of 2000} who’sarguably the greatest track athlete in FHS boys history.Yeager was inducted last year in FHS Hall of Fame’s2013 Class. “And Chris Martland [FHS Class of 2000track and field].

“I can remember, every day I’d have to tell ChrisMartland, ‘hey, let’s go.’ They’d practice until mid-night.”

About Yeager, “Never did he or his parents ques-tion what I put him in,” McKenzie said. “Nevermissed a practice.”

One memorable victory for McKenzie, as an assis-tant coach under then FHS football skipper DanBland, was crushing two-time def-ending statechampion Oak Ridge 35-7. “When we beat them in’81 they had won 29 straight games,” he said.

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Metcalf, 2-time state Player of Year, ‘excited’Twice named Gatorade Tennessee High School

Player of the Year for David Moore’s FarragutLady Admirals volleyball team,Jessi Miller Metcalf helpedher teams reach new levels ofexpectations.

“My sophomore and junioryears, I think we were kind ofthe underdogs as far as thedistrict goes, and the region,”said Metcalf (Class of 2000),a setter and outside hitternamed to FHS Athletic Hall ofFame Class of 2014.

“There was another team that was expected towin, but we were able to pull off a couple of bigwins to be the district champion.”

As for being inducted among eight in her Hallof Fame class, “I was very excited and honored tobe selected, to be a part of this group atFarragut,” said Metcalf, a project manager ofinformation technology organization at B & W Y-12 who lives in Farragut.

Though Metcalf also earned All-state honorsher junior and senior seasons, in fall 1998 and1999, her biggest goal of leading Farragut to whatwould then have been its first-ever Class AAA

state tournament berth was never realized. However, “I was part of an awesome team and

an awesome athletic program. … Just my experi-ence with the athletic program was outstandingwith coach [David] Moore,” Metcalf said. “Ilearned a lot of life lessons that have brought mewhere I am today.”

While playing two years of college volleyball atEast Tennessee State University in Johnson City,Metcalf earned a bachelor’s degree in computerscience.

Metcalf and husband, Josh, live in Farragut andhave two children: a 4-year-old boy and 10-month-old girl.

Living in Town, Metcalf said she’s tried to keepup with Moore’s teams in recent years, several ofwhich have reached the TSSAA Class AAA statetournament.

“Through farragutpress I see several things, andwe have watched them in the past a couple oftimes,” she said. “And through coach Moore.”

As for keeping in touch with former FHS volley-ball teammates, “Jamie Mossberg, I’ve seen herout in Town several times,” Metcalf said. “I seeher parents quite a bit, they live close to me.”

Overall at FHS, “It was wonderful. I got a greateducation,” Metcalf said.

Jessi Miller Metcalf

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Leaving BHS, Almond Ruddy ruled state pentathlon at FHS, SEC heptathlon at Tennessee A two-time pentathlon state champion with

Farragut High School track and field, MarvenaAlmond Ruddy went on tobecome a track All-Americanand SEC champion in the hep-tathlon (seven events) at TheUniversity of Tennessee.

But not before a fall 1988 “pitstop” at rival Bearden HighSchool as a freshman.

“My goal was to get back toFarragut my second semester,”Ruddy, a member of FHSAthletic Hall of Fame Class of2014, said about moving to Farragut during herfreshman year.

“Once I got there that spring [semester 1989] Iwas eligible to jump right in, and I did, starting withthe varsity basketball team,” added Ruddy, also anAll-region hoops honoree and team MVP as a shoot-ing guard/small forward (Class of 1992).

In track and field, “Coach [Bill] Parker had toinstill in me the importance of practice,” Ruddysaid. “I realized I was good, but I was not very disci-plined at that freshman stage. … He andcoach [Scott] McKenzie were the ones that reallyinstilled in me the importance of discipline and ded-ication.”

Parker “put into place, probably because of me,that if you don’t show up to practice you can’t com-

pete in the next meet,” she added. “That got me onboard, to practice every day.”

Ultimate team success, in the form of Class AAAstate track and field championships her final twoyears at FHS, was realized “because we did haveyounger, talented athletes coming in the rear,”Ruddy said. “They went on to either compete at UTwith me, two of them did, and some at rival schoolslike Georgia Tech.”

Originally a verbal commitment to the Universityof North Carolina, Ruddy said she eventually decid-ed, “’I want to stay in-state.’”

Now a homemaker with husband, Tom, caring forgirls ages 4 and 3, Ruddy was a former social workerwho started “a homeless shelter for women and chil-dren” with Knox Area Rescue Ministries. She alsoserved as a “travel and business management con-sultant.”

Ruddy said basketball “was her first love,” addingthat Lady Admirals basketball “was very memorablebecause of the competition around the region. …Especially rivalries like Bearden. A lot of my team-mates, very memorable events and stuff that we didtogether.”

Upon hearing about her induction, “I was veryhappy about that. I did not know one existed,”Ruddy said. “I have recently, since I got onFacebook, was able to get reconnected with some ofthe athletes and classmates. Social media has beena good outlet for doing that.”

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Doug Horne learned the hardway about having to put academ-ics ahead ofathletics inhigh school.

It’s all themore reasonwhy Horne, a1963 gradu-ate ofFarragutHigh Schoolwho hasbecome a highly successful realestate developer and owner ofRepublic News-papers, Inc. (par-ent company of farragutpress),

wants to support FHS athleticsintensely: so Farragutstudent/athletes don’t have toface his dilemma from the early60s.

Horne’s support for FHS athlet-ics for decades has earned him2014 Athletic Service Award, asvoted on by the school’s AthleticHall of Fame Committee.

“I’ve always supported the ath-letics programs at Farragut,”Horne said. “When a coach orathletic director from Farragutcalled me, I’ve done what I couldto help them financially or other-wise. … They’ve had some great

principals there [current princi-pal Michael Reynolds] and theteachers at Farragut have alwaysbeen excellent.”

An Admirals basketball playerhis freshman and sophomoreyears, Horne said, “I had tothumb home, or walk home nineor 10 miles to Blue Grass afterbasketball practice,” meaning hewasn’t getting home until lateevenings.

As a result of missing valuablehomework time, Horne said, “Ihad to drop out of basketball tokeep my academics up.”

Horne said he graduated with a

3.95 grade point average allowinghim to earn the school’s ScienceAward, and therefore receive ascholarship to attend TheUniversity of Tennessee. Horneearned an industrial manage-ment degree at UT.

Overall, “Kids do better in aca-demics if they have a vigoroussports program,” Horne said.“Sports has a way of giving you areading on your success or failurereal quick. And that’s what life’sall about, is a monitor onwhether you’re succeeding or fail-ing.”

Joining eight FHS Athletic Hall

of Fame inductees to be recog-nized during a celebration/cere-mony starting at 6 p.m., Saturday,Feb. 1, in FHS Commons, Hornesaid, “There’s nothing better thanfor a person to go back to his orher school and get an award atthe Farragut Hall of FameBanquet for past accomplish-ments, like the inductees we’ll behonoring.”

While acknowledgingFarragut’s huge statewide andregional success in several sports,“We need to all help and strivefor Farragut to be even more suc-cessful in sports,” Horne said.

Horne

Early ACAC swim practices lead to FHS, UT dominanceGetting serious about swimming as a Farragut

High School freshman, circa 1984, meant gettingup at 4:10 a.m. each weekdaymorning and traveling to OakRidge for practice with AtomicCity Aquatic Club.

Considering that JennyMcGrath Weaver turned out tobe Farragut High School Classof 1988 valedictorian, “It wasvery rigorous … a two-hourworkout before school,” saidWeaver, recently chosen as amember of Farragut High School Athletic Hall ofFame’s Class of 2014.

Medical director/bariatric surgeon (to treat obe-sity) at St. Francis Center For Surgical Weight Lossin Memphis, Weaver added, “I remember manydays going to school with wet hair and no makeup,and, of course, being tired.” That didn’t even countgoing back to Oak Ridge for evening practicesMondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Weaver’s hard work paid handsomely: a multi-event state champion so dominant she finishedfirst in every state meet sheswam as a sophomore, junior and senior. Weaverwas three-time state champion in 100-breaststroke,50-freestyle and 200-IM plus breaststroke relays.

A 16-time All-American and three-time All-SECchamp at The University of Tennessee, McGrathwent into the 1992 U.S. Olympic Trials as thenation’s top female “short course” seed in 100-meter freestyle.

“That state high school meet my sophomore yeardefinitely was a tipping point for my careerbecause as a sophomore I came in and won every-thing,” Weaver said. “That gave me the confidencethat, ‘Hey, I can be the best of the best.’ That car-ried through into my [medical] training.”

Weaver led Farragut to the girls state champi-onship her senior season in 1988. “That was a hugewin, and we beat some of the big teams you typical-ly think about like Baylor,” she said. “It was a realthrill.”

About her induction, “Of course I was very excit-ed. I think everyone has fond memories of theirhigh school days,” Weaver said.

“Of course, it really means a lot to my mother aswell, who still teaches [math] at Farragut HighSchool,” Weaver added about Brenda McGrath, whoalso has served as FHS swim and dive team’s facul-ty sponsor for 31 years. “I think I was just as excit-ed to hear how thrilled she was about the induc-tion.”

Weaver and husband, Dr. Jason Weaver, have an8-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son.

Jenny McGrath Weaver

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