HALL OF FAME INAUGURAL CLASS INDUCTION CEREMONY Saturday, April 28, 2018 Carondelet Athletics Complex and The Clubhouse at Boundary Oak
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT At Carondelet, our focus is on inspiring young women to bring out their best. The best of the remarkable women we honor tonight resulted in incredible achievements both at Carondelet and on the national and international stage. Today, we celebrate their achievements as athletes and as women of heart, faith and courage who are making a positive difference in our world. In launching this Hall of Fame, the entire Carondelet community our dear Sisters of St. Joseph, our 9,000 alumnae, our trustees and generous donors, our 100 faculty and staff, and our 800 students and their families are saying to these inductees and all Carondelet student-athletes, past and present, that we are enormously proud of the amazing legacy of excellence in athletics that each of you have built and continue to build. This Hall of Fame gives us the opportunity to shine the spotlight on this legacy and bring richlydeserved and overdue recognition to generations of outstanding Cougar athletes. It is our vision for Carondelet to become a national model for women s athletics on the secondary level across all aspects of its program. Approximately 500 of our students participate in at least one sport every year. The values, confidence and leadership they take away from their athletic experience is hard to duplicate in any other arena. We touch so many lives through this way. With the opening of the Natalie Coughlin Aquatic Center in February and the opening of the entire Carondelet Athletics Complex this fall, we are positioned to provide our student-athletes with the highest quality facilities, coaching and support going forward. The sky is the limit for our girls and our school! Carondelet High School s comprehensive Athletics program directly supports our School s mission of inspiring excellence by preparing young women to live with heart, faith and courage in the Catholic tradition and spirit of the Sisters of St. Joseph. We value studentathletes equally at all levels of play as they strive to fully develop their athletic abilities while exhibiting the highest standards of teamwork, leadership, and sportsmanship. Carondelet teams and student-athletics build on a superlative legacy of competitive championships and sportsmanship. The Hall of Fame recognizes only a very small fraction of the consummate achievements of Cougar student-athletes and teams, a sampling of which is listed here. 1 Individual National Champion 3 State Championships 3 Individual State Champions 4 NorCal Championships 1 Individual NorCal Champion 54 North Coast Section Team Championships 3 Individual North Coast Section Champions 139 League Championships ATHLETIC LEGACY 40+ athletes currently competing in NCAA sports 16 athletes from class of 2018 have committed to 4-year schools Congratulations to Jayne, Natalie, Tiffany and the 1996 Cross Country team and thank you for the legacy you have helped build and the inspiration you continue to bring to our student-athletes and all of us at Carondelet today. Go Cougars! Bonnie Cotter President
TIFFANY ROBERTS SAHAYDAK 95 Soccer 1996 CROSS COUNTRY TEAM Throughout her soccer career, Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak 95 was considered one of the top soccer players in the country, which was highlighted by her selection to the United States Women s National Team at the age of 16. In her three and a half year career at Carondelet, Tiffany totaled 90 goals and 51 assists. During her high school soccer career, Tiffany received local, state and national honors, earning three Parade All- American and NSCAA All- American selections, while being named the National Girls High School Player of the Year twice. Tiffany debuted with the USA Women s National Team at the age of 16, won a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and earned more gold at the 1998 Goodwill Games. Tiffany was also a member of the 1999 U.S. National Team that won the 1999 FIFA Women s World Cup. She played over 100 matches for her country and was a founding member of the WUSA, the first women s professional soccer league in the United States. She is currently the head coach of the women s soccer team at the University of Central Florida. Carondelet s 1996 CIF Division III Cross-Country Team was the first team state champions in the school s history. The team s fine runners were led by Kristen Gordon Henehan 97, winner of both the California State Championship and U.S. National Cross Country meets in 1996. Joining Kristen were Meghan Andrade Jorgensen 99, Ginaea Carrillo Bauer 97, Kelly Piatanesi Clasen 98, Cristyn Enea Mirkovich 99, Kristen Hart 98, Kerri Bock-Willmes Heusler 97, Maura Kelley 97, Carolyn King 98 and Katie Nash 98. The team was coached by Helen Lehman-Winters and she was assited by Mary Ann Grubb 90. At the state title race, the Cougars were the dominant team, collecting 67 points for a 24-point victory. Gordon was the top individual finisher, running the 5,000-meter race in a time of 17:17. Gordon advanced to the national championship race, where she stood at the top of the podium, finishing the 5k race in 17:34.7, to become the 1996 Foot Locker National High School individual champion. The 1996 CIF State Championship marked the first of three state championships for the school and the first of two for the cross country program.
JAYNE APPEL MARINELLI 06 Basketball A standout player on the basketball court, Jayne Appel Marinelli 06 played at the highest levels of the sport and continues to excel as a leader in women s basketball to this day. Jayne was a two-sport athlete, a four-time varsity letter winner in basketball and a three-time letter winner in water polo. In her four seasons on the basketball court, Jayne helped the Cougars capture four North Coast Section Division II Championships, three Northern California Division II Championships, and the school s only state basketball championship in 2004. Additionally, Carondelet played in the NorCal Finals every year that Jayne was on the basketball team. As a senior, Jayne was selected as a McDonald s All-American and a WBCA All-American, and she earned the top honor in state, when she was named the 2006 California Gatorade Player of the Year. Jayne went on to play collegiate basketball at Stanford University and was named Pac-10 Conference Player of the Year for the 2008-09 season. Additionally, Jayne earned a gold medal at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and went on to play for the San Antonio Stars of the WNBA and was selected as an All-Star in her rookie season. NATALIE COUGHLIN HALL 00 Swimming Natalie Coughlin Hall is arguably the most decorated athlete to graduate from Carondelet High School. Natalie is tied for the most Olympic medals won by a female swimmer in Olympics history with 12 medals, including three gold medals. At Carondelet, as a freshman, she became the first swimmer to qualify for the Summer Nationals in all 14 events. Two years later, she set two individual national high school records in the 200-yard individual medley (1:58.45) and the 100-yard backstroke (52.86). While a student at Carondelet, Natalie helped the Cougars win North Coast Section Swimming Championships in 1998 and 2000. A 12-time Olympic medalist, Natalie was the first woman ever to swim the 100-meter backstroke (long course) in less than one minute. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she became the first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympiad, and the first woman ever to win a 100-meter backstroke gold medal in two consecutive Olympics. Her success earned her NCAA Women s Swimmer of the Year three times, the World Swimmer of the Year Award and American Swimmer of the Year Award three times. She won a total of 60 medals in major international competitions in her 13-year international career.
HALL OF FAME CEREMONY WELCOME Bonnie Cotter President BLESSING Sr. Ann Bernard O Shea, CSJ DINNER GREETINGS Kevin Cushing Principal Kathleen Henggeler Director of Alumnae Engagement Caitlin Main 05 Director of Athletics HALL OF FAME INDUCTIONS Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak 95 1996 Cross Country Team Jayne Appel Marinelli 06 Natalie Coughlin Hall 00 INTERVIEWS Ross Perich Alum Parent HALL OF FAME