Induction Year: 2011

Born: October 29, 1951 in Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina

Pomona High School 1969
California Lutheran College
1973 -B.A.
1981 -M.A.

Doni was born at Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina in 1951. Moving to California, he graduated from Pomona H.S. in 1969, after excelling in both Football and Track. He was honored with the coveted “Red Devil Award” in Football.

After attending Mt. SAC for one year, he transferred to California Lutheran College where he competed in Football and Track. He played on the 1971 NAIA National Football Champion team and was inducted into the CLU Hall of Fame in 2005. He received his BA in 1973 and MA in 1981, both from CLU.

From 1973 to 1981 he served as the Kingsmen’s linebacker coach producing five All Americans. He simultaneously began his teaching career in Simi Valley.

From 1979 to 1986, as the Boy’s Track and Field coach at Simi Valley H.S., he compiled a remarkable record of 64-1 in Marmonte League meets winning thirty-three straight Duals. The Pioneers won six league championships, were second in CIF-SS twice and were third in the 1985 State Meet. In 1986, Doni was named CIF Track Coach of the Year. Also in 1986 he began assisting his father, Don Green Sr. (Hall of Fame Member 1997), at CLU. In two years, their program produced eight NAIA All Americans in Track and their Cross Country team won the District III Championship.

In 1988 Doni began as an assistant coach at Moorpark College and became Head Coach in both Men’s and Women’s Cross Country and Track in 1997. His achievements are almost too numerous to mention entirely. In 1997 the Raiders Cross Country team won the Southern California and State Championships. In 1998 they were Southern California champs and second in State.

In Track, Doni’s teams won eleven Western State Conference Championships, three Regional Championships and one State Championship. His program has produced ninety-six All Americans in Track and Field and five in Cross Country.

His Women’s Track teams had a record of 86-7 with thirty-seven consecutive wins. The Men’s team compiled a record of 131-2 with one hundred and seven consecutive wins.

He was California Coach of the year in 2003. Doni has fielded teams in Europe, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia and Mexico.

He has volunteered with the Junior Olympics, Special Olympics and has organized junior high duals and leagues finals.

Doni and his wife Becky live in Thousand Oaks where they enjoy their children Jessica and her fiancé Mike Dilucchio, Sean, Eric, Joy and Danny Prouty, Tom Harmon and grandchildren Gracie and Brandon.

Born: April 24, 1977 in Los Angeles, California

Westlake High School – 1995
University of Southern California – 1999

Billy was born in Los Angeles, California in 1977. His family moved to Westlake Village where he played on the Westlake High School Football team coached by Jim Benkert (Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame 2007) from 1991 to 1995. He was a multi-year All Marmonte League and All Ventura County pick at wide receiver. During his career he had 187 receptions for 34 touchdowns and was a consensus prep All American. In 1995 he represented WHS at the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame and was voted All County Hall of Fame Athlete of the Year by the STAR sportswriters.

Billy then accepted a scholarship to USC where he was the Trojans’ number four all-time receiver with 125 catches. He played on the 1996 Rose Bowl Championship team and as a senior was voted captain of the Trojans.

Billy was drafted in the seventh round of the 1999 NFL draft by the Denver Broncos. He had an eleven-year career in the NFL. He played with the Broncos and the Houston Texans, for whom he scored the first touchdown in franchise history, the ball being enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame. He went on to play with the Cleveland Browns and capped his career by earning a Super Bowl ring with the New Orleans Saints in 2009.

Billy had the honor of going on several USO tours to visit our troops in the Middle East, Africa, Turkey, Cuba and Japan.

Today, Billy owns The Elite Performance Factory, a 19,000 square foot indoor training arena and facility in Westlake Village that serves athletes in all sports from eighth grade to the professionals.

Billy lives in Moorpark with his wife Rachael and their children Caine, Jaden, and Celeste.

Born: January 4, 1977 in Ventura, California

Ventura High School 1995
Colorado State University
2000 – B.A. in Computer Information Systems
2004 – M.A. in Computer Information Systems

Erik was born in Ventura, California in 1977. He attended Ventura H.S. and earned seven varsity letters, four in Track and three in Football. He started as both quarterback and safety for the Cougars, earning All-Channel League honors as well as an All County selection. He was a member of the school’s record-setting 4/100 Relay team.

Having had Academic letters all four years, Erik was rewarded with a scholarship to Colorado State University. There he was named freshman first team All American by the “Sporting News” as a safety. In 1997 he helped lead the Rams to the Holiday Bowl where he was chosen Defensive MVP of the game. He continued as a four-year starter and was fourth in the country in interceptions in 1999. Erik was a Scholar Athlete at the Liberty Bowl, he received the Academic Achievement Award his senior year and was a candidate for the Jim Thorpe Award. He earned his BA in Computer Information Systems in 2000.

The NFL Jacksonville Jaguars drafted him in the seventh round. He played fourteen games in 2000 as a rookie, primarily on Special Teams. When an injury cut his career short, Erik returned to CSU for an MA in Computer Information Systems.

After a successful career with Hewlett Packard, he became Director of Sales for an energy drink company. He owns a business in Fort Collins, Colorado and has served with the Chamber of Commerce. In 2009 he returned to Colorado State as the Director of Development for the College of Business. Erik has two sons, Brady and Luke.

Born: December 3, 1939 in Los Angeles, California

John Burroughs HS – 1957
University of Southern California
1961 – B.A.
1967 – M.A.

Ron was born in Los Angeles in 1939. He graduated from John Burroughs in Burbank in 1957. His high school career included being selected to the All Foothill League team as a short stop in baseball and guard in Basketball.

He graduated with a BA from USC in 1961 from where he also later earned a Master’s degree. During his Baseball career as a Trojan, he was awarded the Willis Hunter Award for best GPA of an USC athlete. Ron was an All PAC 8 short stop and captained the NCAA Championship team of 1961.

One week after graduation, as a twenty-one year old, he signed a professional contract with the Washington Senators. On his first day of pro ball, he played in Yankee Stadium and watched Roger Maris hit a home run off the facade of the third deck.

In Baltimore he played in a game with Senator pitcher, Tom Cheney, as he set a major league record by striking out twenty-one batters in a sixteen inning game.

In 1965, Ron began a twenty-five year career in the Conejo Valley School District coaching Cross Country, Freshman Basketball and Varsity Baseball at Thousand Oaks H.S.

He moved to Moorpark College and California Lutheran University coaching Baseball at both. In 1976, Ron was NAIA Coach of the year at CLU.

He counts his personal career highlights as being selected twice to manage the best college players in the USA against a Japanese All Star team. The games were played in Dodger Stadium and Omaha, Nebraska.

Ron and his wife Jan have three children, Scott, Kurt and Rod.

Born: August 3, 1938 in Rochelle, Georgia

Ventura College 1963-1966

Ray was born in Rochelle, GA in 1938. He started his boxing career in 1958 after he moved to Ventura County.

He attended Ventura College from 1963 to 1966.

Ray’s first professional fight was in 1958 and when he retired his record was 48-15-5. During his career he fought in nationally televised bouts twenty-seven times.

He reigned as the California State light heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1974. He fought Jimmy Dupree for the North American light heavyweight in 1971 and again in 1973 against Mike Quarry, losing both fights in close twelve round decisions.

During his career, he fought twelve fighters who had been World Title contenders.

Ray was a popular entertaining boxer who developed an unique fighting style. He created a number of crowd-pleasing punches including the “roosted’, the “behind-the-back”, the “jump”, the “double uppercut”, the “double jab”, the “backhand bolo” and, of course, his signature “windmill” punch.

He was one of the first athletes to combine entertainment and sports. He drew tremendous public interest and appeared on the Merv Griffin TV talk show five times and on the Mike Douglas Show twice.

Ray gave back to the community by opening the famous La Colonia Boxing Club in Oxnard in 1978. He remodeled an old fire station into a gym. La Colonia is regarded as one to the finest amateur fight programs in the State, producing such fighters as Olympian and two-time World Champion Fernando Vargas and World Champion Robert Garcia.

Ray also officiated for the California Boxing federation for fifteen years and promoted “Fight Night with Windmill White” at the County Fairgrounds.

Ray has four children, Shawn White and Melinda Goff of Oak View, Brad White of Ojai and Stephanie Hunter of San Luis Obispo.