Induction Year: 2010

Born: May 29th, 1957 in Oxnard, California

Rio Mesa High School 1975
UCLA 1979—BA English
Graceland University 2008—MS Education

During his high school years, Brian was an all-league football player and track athlete at Rio Mesa High School in Oxnard.

After graduating from UCLA in 1980, he returned to his alma mater to teach English and coach.

In his 29 years as the school’s track coach, Brian’s boys’ and girls’ teams have won 44 league titles, 5 CIF Southern Section runner-up awards, 3 CIF-SS and the girls’ State Championships, Championship in 1988. Brian has played a major role in the development of 4 outstanding Southern California female sprinters: Angela Burnham (5 state titles, twice National Female Athlete of the Year); Marion Jones (4 state titles while at Rio Mesa, National Athlete of the Year in 1991); Porchea Carroll (2nd 3rd & 4th place finishes at the State Meet); and, most recently, Valexsia Droughn (2009 State 100 Meter Champion).

All told, Brian has coached 7 of the top 9 female sprinters in Ventura County history. He was honored as the Southern Section Girls’ High School Coach of the Year in 1994, and is currently a member of the CIF-SS and California State Advisory Committees for Track & Field.

The late 1980’s saw his organizational skills come to the forefront with the birth of the Spartan Relays and his fundraising efforts to install the first all-weather track in Ventura County at Rio Mesa.

For the past 18 years, Brian has developed curriculum and been a Lead Instructor for the innovative coaching education program offered by the LA84 Foundation, and his expertise in sprint mechanics and relays has made him a speaker in high demand throughout the country.

He was inducted into both the Sunkist Indoor Invitational and Mt. SAC Relays Hall of Fame, and was the Oxnard Union High School District’s Teacher of the Year in 1992.

In 2005, he was honored with the ‘Outstanding Service to High School Track & Field” award at the Arcadia Invitational, and in 2009 he received the CIF Southern Section “Champions for Character” award. In his 22nd year as Athletic Director at Rio Mesa, he is currently the longest tenured AD in the County.

Brian—the great-grandson of Adolfo Camarillo-his wife Koreen, and their two sons, Michael and Patrick, make their home in the beautiful city that bears his ancestor’s name.

Born: May 17th, 1948 in Taft, California

Cal Poly SLO 1971 – BA History, minor Math
Cal Poly SLO 1978 – MA Education

As an all league player at Taft Union H.S., George accepted a Football scholarship and started for three years on the offensive line at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He was an all conference player in both 1969 and 1970 and was hired to coach at Newbury Park H.S. in 1972.

During his career he has also coached Basketball and Baseball but he has earned his fame as a Wrestling and Football coach.

In 1984-5, his Wrestling team placed second in the State, the highest level ever reached by a Ventura County team. He also refereed Wrestling for twenty-five years including several CIF finals.

In Football during his nineteen-year career as Head Coach, his teams won 130 games, a mark still in the top ten all time Ventura County coaching record list. His teams won seven Marmonte League championships, went to the CIF playoffs eleven times and participated in two CIF final games. In the 1993 CIF Finals game versus Hawthorne, acknowledged by the Ventura STAR as the finest game in County history, the Panthers won the championship.

He has been selected Marmonte League Coach of the Year nine times, County Coach of the Year five times, L.A. TIMES area Coach of the Year twice and the National Football League Coach of the Year in 1998.

He initiated some of the first “out-of-State” Football trips, playing and hosting teams from Arizona, Hawaii and Oregon.

His greatest accomplishment may have been innovation of the Marmonte League so-called passing circus” in the 1990s when scores went from a three point differential to games where both teams would put more than fifty points on the board. He also expanded the summer league passing program from its infancy to being a major component of all county high school Football off season preparation. The passing league tournaments now include freshmen and sophomores.

During his career, George played Rugby for twelve years and officiated Track and Field meets from 1979 to the present. In that time, thousands of athletes and scores of coaches have had the good fortune to cross paths with this good natured and affable Ventura County sports leader.

Born: November 30th, 1946 in Ventura, California

Hueneme High School 1964
Ventura College

Jim lettered in Tennis at both Hueneme H.S. and Ventura College, where he was ASB president.

In 1978 he personally financed the construction of the Ventura Raceway at the County Fairgrounds.

To this day, he continues to own and operate the only successful professional sports franchise in Ventura County history.

No individual has contributed more to his or her sport than Jim Naylor has to automobile racing. Jim has been recognized within the auto racing community with a number of national awards. In 1991 he was named “Race Organizer of the Year” by the United States Automobile Club. In 1993, USAC also awarded him the Jim Bunk Memorial Award for his devotion to midget racing. Jim was the “Non-winged Sprint Car Promoter of the Year” in 2006 when he was “Western Race Organizer of the Year” by the USAC.

He continues to be one of the most sought-after presenters at the Annual Promoters Workshop for Track Operators in Reno every December.

His raceway has spurred many satellite businesses such as the Corey Kruseman Driving School for prospective race car drivers and several racing engine and chassis builders. The raceway has brought some of the most successful drivers to Ventura County including Cruz Pedregon, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Kurt and Kyle Busch, Billy Boat and Jimmy Sills. But the thing that pleases Jim the most is the way that the track and sheds bring families together.

Naylor has two daughters, Julianne and Laura. He currently lives in Oxnard, California.

Born: May 10th, 1976 in Santa Barbara, California

Newbury Park High School 1994
University of Arizona 2000 – BA Family Studies

Keith lettered in Football, Basketball and Baseball at Newbury Park H.S. In Baseball he played shortstop, pitcher and center field for the Panthers.
He was named All Marmonte League three times and All Ventura County twice. He was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the fifth round.

In Basketball he averaged twenty-one points and six assists per game and was honored as an All Marmonte League pick and was All County in 1992.

In Football, however, he achieved his greatest accomplishments. Playing quarterback for the Panthers, he was the Marmonte League MVP who led his team to championships in 1992 and 1993. The 1993 team had a 14-0 record and was CIF champion. In the championship game versus Hawthorne, Keith made a dazzling 98-yard run in the waning seconds of the game to beat the Cougars 22-14 to win the CIF championship. That run is considered by many to be the best individual play in Ventura County history. He owns many records including 11,433 total yards, 107 total touchdowns and a career completion rate of 66% in thirty-five high school games. Keith was County Player of the Year twice, State Player of the Year in 1993 and the PARADE All American Quarterback of 1994.

He accepted a Football scholarship to the University of Arizona where he accumulated fourteen Wildcat records. Keith led Arizona to their best record in school history in 1998 with a 12-1 season. In 1996, he was freshman PARADE All American. In 1998 Keith led the Wildcats to a 23-20 victory over Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl and was named Bowl MVP. He was also an All PAC 10 quarterback, East/West Shrine Game Quarterback and Hula Bowl All Star Quarterback.

He was drafted by the Canadian Football league and played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the Edmonton Eskimos and the Calgary Stampeders.

Since the end of his professional career, Keith has coached for Newbury Park H.S. Keith works for Collegiate Sports of America Prep Star, an organization which helps high school students to earn scholarships.

Born: May 6th 1952 in Burbank, California

St. Bonaventure High School 1970
Loyola University 1974 – BA Sociology

Jerry was a three year starter in Football, Basketball and Baseball for St. Bonaventure HS. He played both offense and defense as an interior lineman and linebacker. In the 1968 CIF Championship Football game Jerry made school history by scooping up a fumble and running 30 yards to score the winning touchdown with just three minutes left in the game breaking a 20-20 tie. He was also a member of the first Tri Valley League Football championship in 1969.

In Basketball, Jerry averaged double figures in both his junior and senior years.

But it was Baseball that Jerry made his impact as an athlete. As a switch hitting pitcher, Jerry won 24 games leading to St. Bonaventure’s first Baseball Tri-valley League Championship. He was named Tri-Valley League Player of the Year. In the CIF “AA” Playoffs, Jerry pitched all three games and in the Championship Game he threw a 3 hit, 10 strikeout game (3-0). He also had 6 hits in 9 at bats during the playoffs. Jerry was named CIF Player of the Year, the only CIF Player of the Year in Baseball in St. Bonaventure’s school history.

Jerry received a baseball scholarship to Loyola (now Loyola Marymount University University) where he started as a freshman catcher for the Lions. In 1973, the Lions won their first ever West Coast Conference Championship and made their first ever NCAA Playoff appearance. Jerry set records for home runs, RBI’s and doubles for a single season as well as setting career marks at that time. Remarkably he handled 388 chances with no errors for a final fielding percentage of 1.000. He won both All Conference and All American Honors (the first All American Baseball player in Loyola’s history).

He has been inducted in the Lions Hall of Fame and is only one of three Baseball players to have his jersey retired.

Jerry was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the fourth round as the 76th player taken. He played his first year in the Northwest League at Walla Walla, WA (A) and was a unanimous pick to the All Star Team leading the league in Home Runs.

The next two years were in the Texas League in Alexandria, Louisiana (AA) and his final two years in the Pacific Coast League with the Hawai’i Islanders (AAA) before retiring after the 1977 season. Jerry currently resides in Westlake Village with Mary, his wife of 35 years.

He is Managing Director of an Executive Search Firm.