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# Greg Villa

Gregory Villa is an American former soccer forward who played professionally in the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League. He earned eighteen caps, scoring five goals, with the United States men's national soccer team between 1977 and 1980.

## Youth

Villa grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he attended Mehlville High School from 1971 to 1975. He also played for the Busch Soccer Club as a youth player. Villa attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In 1975, he scored 9 goals and assisted on 8 others. The next season, he led the team with 14 goals.

## Professional

Villa played for the Minnesota Kicks from 1977 to 1979. The Strikers traded Villa to the Tulsa Roughnecks only a few games into the 1979 season. At the end of the season, the Roughnecks traded him to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers for the 1980 season. At the completion of the 1980 NASL season, he signed with the St. Louis Steamers of Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). He played two seasons with the Steamers before trying out for Team America after being waived by the Chicago Sting without playing a game with them. In 1983, the U.S. Soccer Federation entered the U.S. national team in NASL. Team America ended the season 10–20 and USSF withdrew it from the league at the end of the season. Villa played one more season with the Steamers in 1985–1986.

## National team

Villa earned eighteen caps with the national team from 1977 to 1980. His first game with the national team came in a September 15, 1977, victory over El Salvador. Villa scored in the game, putting him in the company of about a dozen U.S. players who have scored in their debut with the national team. Villa went on to play nearly every national team game during the next three years. He also was a member of the U.S. Olympic Soccer Team which qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics. However, due to President Carter's boycott of the games, held in the Soviet Union, Villa did not play in the Olympics
# Gregg Tafralis

Gregory Louis Tafralis (April 9, 1958 – August 11, 2023) was an American track and field athlete.

## Early life and career

Gregory Louis Tafralis was born in San Francisco, California, on April 9, 1958. He set the best world year performance in the men's shot put event in 1992. He competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in ninth place. He won two silver medals at the Pan American Games, first in 1987 and then in 1995.
The second medal was taken away from him because of a positive test for steroids at an earlier meet. After his suspension ran out in 1999, Tafralis tested positive for a banned substance methandienone and was banned for life.
His personal best throw was 21.98 metres, achieved in May 1988 in Los Gatos.

## Personal life and death

His son Adam, was a college football quarterback for San Jose State University who currently plays for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League.
Gregg Tafralis died on August 11, 2023, at the age of 65.
# Hans Wolf

Hans Joachim Wolf (born September 8, 1940) is an American former cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Wolf had also won the 1964 Tour of Somerville.
# Harold Pressley

Harold Pressley (born July 14, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player. He spent four years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Sacramento Kings between 1986 and 1990 before playing a major role in Joventut Badalona's success both in the Spanish league and the Euroleague until 1993.

## College

After attending Saint Bernard High School in Uncasville, Connecticut, Pressley played collegiately at Villanova University and was a member of their 1985 National Championship team. At Villanova, he became the first player in Big East history to record a triple-double, with 19 points, 15 rebounds, and 10 blocked shots against Providence. He was named to the 1985 NCAA Southeast Regional All-Tournament Team, the 1986 All Big East First Team, a 1986 Associated Press honorable mention All American, the 1986 Big East All-Tournament Team and the 1986 Big East Defensive Player of the Year.

## Professional career

Pressley was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 1st round (17th overall pick) of the 1986 NBA draft. He played the shooting guard and small forward positions for four years with the Kings, averaging 9.0 points and 4.5 rebounds per game. Seeing fewer opportunities once the Kings hired coach Dick Motta, in 1990 Pressley signed a contract with Joventut Badalona of the Spanish ACB league, winning two consecutive championships in 1991 and 1992 and reaching the 1992 Euroleague final alongside Jordi Villacampa and Corny Thompson. He had 20 points and 9 rebounds against Partizan, but his performance was not enough to prevent a 70–71 loss, highlighted by Sasha Djordjevic' buzzer beater three pointer. In the 1993–94 season, Pressley signed with Pau Orthez in France, before returning to Spain and finishing his career.

## Post athletic career

Pressley was a co-host on Sierra Central Sports Roundtable, a sports show that airs every Sunday morning on Comcast Sports Net in the Sacramento area. On March 30, 2007, he began serving as Director of Player Development for the Sacramento Kings. His son Bryce Pressley was a college basketball player at the University of Portland.
# Harry Barnes (basketball)

Harry J. Barnes (born July 25, 1945) is an American former professional basketball player.
Barnes was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and moved to the South End of Boston around the age of 11, where he started playing basketball at the South End Boys Club. He attended Boston Tech, where he earned all-Scholastic honors.
Barnes played college basketball for Northeastern University. As a senior, he averaged 16.9 points and 7.8 rebounds per game while shooting 47 percent from the field. He scored 1,114 points in his career, which ranked third in program history at the time of his graduation.
He was selected by the San Diego Rockets in the 4th round (37th pick overall) of the 1968 NBA draft.
He played for the Rockets (1968–69) in the NBA for 22 games.

## Career statistics
### NBA

Source

#### Regular season

| Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | PPG |
| 1968–69 | San Diego | 22 | 5.7 | .281 | .538 | 1.2 | .2 | 2.0 |
# Harry Sharkey

Harry Sharkey (August 24, 1916 – November 22, 2002) was an American rower. He competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
# Harry Wendell Reeves

Harry Wendell Reeves (December 3, 1910 – February 5, 2001) was an American sports shooter. He competed in the 50 m pistol event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
# Henry Taylor (boxer)

Henry Taylor (born 1914, date of death unknown) was an American professional boxer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taylor's career spanned from 1932 to 1946. During this time, he had 18 professional bouts, winning 9 (3 by knockout) with 7 losses and 2 draws. He has the distinction of having defeated former heavyweight world champion Jersey Joe Walcott. The pair had two bouts: Walcott won the first, a TKO in the first round and Taylor won their second meeting, just over 3 months later, by a 6-round points decision.
# Herb Johnson (basketball)

Herb Johnson (born Herb Johnson Wilkerson) is a former professional basketball player with Villars Basket in Switzerland. Johnson played collegiately with the University of Tulsa.

## College career

At Tulsa, Johnson helped the team to the 1981 NIT title and appearances in the 1982, 1983, and 1984 NCAA Tournaments. As of 2010, Johnson is in the top 5 of Golden Hurricane career leaders in rebounds, top 10 in steals, and top 15 in scoring.

## Professional career

Johnson was a third-round pick of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1985 NBA draft. His professional career has included stops in France, Spain, Japan, Turkey and most recently Switzerland. Johnson played the 2004–05 season with Union Neuchâtel Basket, 2005 to 2007 with Pages Jaunes Pully Basket, and the 2008–09 season with Vevey Riviera Basket. He joined Villars Basket for the 2009 season.

## Personal life

Johnson's daughter Brandie Wilkerson is a professional beach volleyball player for Canada. Wilkerson was born in Switzerland and moved to Canada along with Johnson when she was seven. His wife, Wilkerson's mother, Stephanie (born in Tramelan), was a Swiss national runner and a two-time Ironman finalist.
# Herb Vaningen

Herbert Terrell Vaningen Jr. (November 17, 1924 – January 8, 2010) was an American ice hockey goaltender who competed in ice hockey at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
Vaningen was a member of the American ice hockey team which played eight games, but was disqualified, at the 1948 Winter Olympics. Vaningen played in two games as the goaltender.
# Herbert Flam

Herbert Flam (November 7, 1928 – November 25, 1980) was an American tennis player who was ranked by Lance Tingay as the World No. 4 amateur (and World No. 5 by Adrian Quist) in 1957.

## Biography

Flam was born in New York City, and he was Jewish. He reached his first Grand Slam final at the U.S. championships in 1950, beating Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy and then losing to Art Larsen. That year, he was ranked number 2 in the United States.
In 1951, he won the Ojai Tennis Tournament in men's singles. At Wimbledon in 1951, Flam beat Frank Sedgman and the lost to Dick Savitt in the semifinals. That year, he was ranked number 4 in the U.S.
In 1952 at Wimbledon, Flam beat Mulloy and Vic Seixas and then lost in the semifinals to Jaroslav Drobny. That year, he was ranked number 5 in the U.S. In the 1956 Australian Championships, Flam beat Ashley Cooper and then lost in the semifinals to Ken Rosewall. In September 1956 Flam won the singles title at the Pacific Southwest Championships, defeating Rosewall in the final in five sets. That year, he was ranked number 2 in the U.S.
At the 1957 French championships Flam beat Mervyn Rose in a five-set semifinal and then lost in straight sets to Sven Davidson in the final. At the U. S. championships, Flam beat Seixas and then lost to Cooper in the semifinals. That year, he was ranked number 2 in the U.S., behind Seixas.
Flam was inducted into the International Tennis Association Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1990, into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1992, and into the University of California at Los Angeles Hall of Fame in 2006. In 2017, he was inducted into the Southern California Tennis Association Hall of Fame.

## Grand Slam finals
### Singles (twice runner-up)

| Result | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 1957 | French Championships | Clay | Sven Davidson | 3–6, 4–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 1950 | U.S. National Championships | Grass | Art Larsen | 3–6, 6–4, 7–5, 4–6, 3–6 |
# Herbert Perez

Herbert J. "Herb" Perez (born December 6, 1959) is a former US Olympian in taekwondo and a politician. He was a gold medalist in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

## Personal life

Perez was born in New York City to a Polish mother and a Puerto Rican father. He attended Rutgers Law School. He did his undergraduate degree at William Paterson University and earned a master's degree in sport organization management from the International Olympic Committee's program at the University of Lyon, France. Perez became a city councilman and mayor for Foster City, California, where he is the owner of Gold Medal Martial Arts. He has earned his eighth degree black belt in taekwondo. He served as chairman for the World Taekwondo Federation Education Committee and Vice Chair of the World Taekwondo Federation Technical Committee along with Steven Capener. Together they created and implemented the multi-tiered scoring system in place today along with the video review protocol.

## Martial arts

Perez won bronze medals at both the 1987 and 1991 World Taekwondo Championships, and won the 1987 World Cup Championships in Helsinki. He was involved in a scoring controversy as the head of the Taekwondo team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
He starred as himself (with the nickname "Olympus") on the 1995-1997 martial arts TV series WMAC Masters.
Herb Perez became a prominent critic of electronic scoring in the 2016 Summer Olympics taekwondo competition. His career and criticism were highlighted in a feature story in the September 2016 issue of Tae Kwon Do Life Magazine called "Herb Perez: Modern Renaissance Man".

## Political career

Perez was elected to the council of the City of Foster City in 2011. He was re-elected for another four-year term on November 3, 2015. He briefly served as Mayor and Vice-Mayor before being recalled on March 3, 2020, in the California Primary elections. Retired Police Chief and longtime Foster City resident Jon Froomin was selected to replace Perez on the council until the term for his seat expires in November 2020.
# Horace Reid (tennis)

Horace Reid (born June 14, 1955) is an American former professional tennis player.
Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Reid won two State AAA singles championships while a Washington High School student. He ranked 10th in the U.S. for the 14s age division and was the first African American to win a Georgia state junior title.
Reid won the American Tennis Association singles championship in 1972 and was considered a protege of former world number one Arthur Ashe, who provided him with financial support. Attending UCLA on a scholarship, he played No.4 singles and No.1 doubles for the Bruins, before dropping out his second year.
Following his time at the Bruins, Reid began competing on the professional tour and achieved a best singles world ranking of 272. He featured in doubles main draws at the US Open.

## ATP Challenger finals
### Doubles: 1 (0–1)

| Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 1. | Sep 1978 | Lincoln, U.S. | Hard | Rick Meyer | Keith Richardson John Sadri | 6–4, 3–6, 5–7 |
# Houston Fancher

Houston Fancher (born February 17, 1966) is an American basketball coach, previously the interim head coach of the Charlotte 49ers men's basketball team. Prior to that, he worked for a summer in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Later, he also worked for four years at the University of Tennessee, including as the Director of Basketball Operations for the last two of those years. From 2000 to 2009, he was the men's head basketball coach of the Mountaineers at Appalachian State University. His first two seasons saw his team go 11–20, and 10–18, respectively. The following season, 2002–03, his team went 19–10, and Fancher was named the Southern Conference Coach of the Year. In the 2006–07 season, his squad won a school record 25 games, but failed to make the NCAA tournament, instead garnering Appalachian's first National Invitation Tournament (NIT) berth instead. On March 16, 2009, Fancher resigned as head coach following a disappointing 2008–09 season.
On April 2, 2015, Fancher was named assistant coach on the staff of new Charlotte 49ers head coach Mark Price. He was elevated to interim head coach after Price's sudden firing on December 14, 2017.
On March 6, 2018, following a 3–17 record, Fancher was notified by incoming athletics director Mike Hill that he would not be retained through the 2018–19 season and that a nationwide search for a permanent men's basketball coach would begin immediately.

## Head coaching record

Statistics overview :
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason |
| North Greenville Crusaders (Division II Independent) (1992–1995) ||||||
| 1992–93 | North Greenville | 14–14 | | | |
| 1993–94 | North Greenville | 15–13 | | | |
| 1994–95 | North Greenville | 15–14 | | | |
| North Greenville: | North Greenville: | 44–41 (.518) | | | |
| Appalachian State Mountaineers (Southern Conference) (2000–2009) ||||||
| 2000–01 | Appalachian State | 11–20 | 7–9 | T–3rd (North) | |
| 2001–02 | Appalachian State | 10–18 | 5–11 | T–3rd (North) | |
| 2002–03 | Appalachian State | 19–10 | 11–5 | T–1st (North) | |
| 2003–04 | Appalachian State | 9–21 | 4–12 | 6th (North) | |
| 2004–05 | Appalachian State | 18–12 | 9–7 | T–2nd (North) | |
| 2005–06 | Appalachian State | 14–16 | 6–8 | 4th (North) | |
| 2006–07 | Appalachian State | 25–8 | 15–3 | 1st (North) | NIT First Round |
| 2007–08 | Appalachian State | 18–13 | 13–7 | T–1st (North) | |
| 2008–09 | Appalachian State | 13–18 | 9–11 | T–2nd (North) | |
| Appalachian State: | Appalachian State: | 137–136 (.502) | 79–73 (.520) | | |
| Charlotte 49ers (Conference USA) (2017–2018) ||||||
| 2017–18 | Charlotte | 3–17 | 2–16 | 14th | |
| Charlotte: | Charlotte: | 3–17 (.150) | 2–16 (.111) | | |
| Total: | Total: | 184–194 (.487) | | | |
| National champion   Postseason invitational champion   Conference regular season champion   Conference regular season and conference tournament champion  Division regular season champion  Division regular season and conference tournament champion  Conference tournament champion ||||||
# Howard Winfree

Howard Winfree (born June 26, 1938) is an American rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
# Howie Braun

Howard J. Braun (November 13, 1912 – January 9, 1996) was an American college basketball assistant coach for the University of Illinois from 1937 to 1967. Braun graduated from the University of Illinois in 1936. He won six varsity letters in tennis and basketball and was a member of the "I" Men's Club.
For three decades Howie Braun was responsible for all recruiting of high school basketball player for the University of Illinois. Braun worked and played for three legendary Fighting Illini head coaches. From 1933–1936, Braun played for Craig Ruby, winning a Big Ten Conference championship in 1935. He coached with Doug Mills from 1937 to 1947, winning conference championships in 1937, 1942 and 1943, and Harry Combes from 1948–1967, winning conference championships in 1949, 1951, 1952 and 1963.
While recruiting, head coaches generally didn't become involved until an athlete made it to campus for an official visit. Since there was no AAU summer basketball as exists today, most major college coaches had the summers to themselves. While on the recruiting circuit, Braun was known for operating alone. He was known for being an intense, strong-willed man with a good heart who many former athletes respected.
After a notorious slush fund scandal in 1967, Braun was banned from coaching in the Big Ten and began working in public relations at the Commercial Bank of Champaign. He also was president of Worden-Martin Leasing from 1967 to 1977. Additionally, he was the pro golf manager at Lincolnshire Fields golf course in Champaign.
# Hugh Peery

Robert Hugh Peery (November 7, 1931 – January 10, 2015) was an American wrestler. He won a gold medal at the 1951 Pan American Games, and he competed in the men's freestyle flyweight at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He also worked as a dentist for more than 50 years.

## Biography

Peery was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1931. He attended the Tulsa Central High School, where he became an Eagle Scout and a two-time state champion. At the University of Pittsburgh he was a three-time NCAA champion in the early 1950s. At the 1951 Pan American Games, Peery won the gold medal in the freestyle flyweight division.
Peery was selected to represent the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. At the Olympics, Peery competed in the men's freestyle flyweight event, and was eliminated by Georgy Sayadov of the Soviet Union.
Following his wrestling career, Peery graduated from a dental school in 1956, going on to serve in the United States Navy Dental Corps. Following his military career, he returned to Pittsburgh, where he worked as a dentist for more than 50 years.
In 1980, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member, and he was also posthumously inducted into the University of Pittsburgh hall of fame. His brother, Ed, and his father, Rex, were also inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
# Hughie Pollock

Hughie Pollock (born July 16, 1942) is an American rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He graduated from Harvard University.
# Héctor Bas

Héctor Bas (born 20 January 1951) is a Puerto Rican diver. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.
# Ian Wilson (soccer)

Ian Wilson (born June 30, 1960) is a former American professional soccer player and current Physical Education teacher.

## HS/College

Wilson grew up in Bedford Hills, New York where he attended Fox Lane High School. In 1976 and 1977 he was an All-League and All-Westchester County soccer player. He captained the Fox Lane team to the New York State Class AA Championship in 1977. Wilson scored 3 goals and added 1 assist in a 4–0 win over Scarsdale in the championship game. That performance earned Wilson a tryout with the NASL's New York Cosmos at the age of 17. Wilson was honored by being chosen to the 1977 and 1978 New York State Team and was also selected to US Eastern Regional Team in 1978.
Wilson entered Keene State College, New Hampshire. During his four seasons at Keene State, he helped lead the Owls to three NAIA National Tournaments where he was named to two All-Tournament teams in 1980 and 1981. He was the captain of the 1981 Keene State team that finished 3rd in the nation. As a central defender, Wilson played and started in 93 collegiate games, scoring 18 goals and adding 14 assists. He was selected to both the NCAA and NAIA 1980 and 1981 All-American 1st teams. He was also chosen to the 1979, 1980 and 1981 All-New England teams as well as being selected to three New England All-Star Teams.
Wilson was inducted into the Keene State College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004.

## Professional

After playing in New England's LASA league with Cranston Portuguese Club, Cranston, RI and Faialense Sport Club, Cambridge, MA. Wilson signed to play professionally for the 1983 Detroit Express in the American Soccer League. As a rookie, he made 16 appearances for the Express (13 as a starter). He was twice voted defensive player of the game (vs Dallas Americans and Oklahoma City Slickers). When the Detroit Express folded after the 1983 season, he was picked up by the Rochester Flash in the United Soccer League in 1984. Started 22 games for the Flash and was one of the team leaders in minutes played with 2045 mins. Selected player of the match honors in games against Buffalo Storm and Jacksonville Tea Men. Scored 1 goal and picked up 1 assist as a defender and was nominated by the Houston Dynamo to their 1984 All-Opponent team.
After the 84' season with Rochester, Wilson was to play for the Louisville Thunder in the American Indoor Soccer League but a knee injury sidelined him and eventually ended his soccer career.

## Teaching/Education

Physical Education Teacher
BS in Physical Education
MS in Education

## References/Links

* http://nasljerseys.com/ASL/Players/W/Wilson.Ian.htm
* https://keeneowls.com/honors/keene-state-college-athletics-alumni-hall-of-fame/ian-wilson/43
* https://keeneowls.com/honors/keene-state-college-athletics-alumni-hall-of-fame/1981-mens-soccer-team/63
* https://keeneowls.com/sports/2020/5/31/mens-soccer-all-americans.aspx?id=768
# Ian Checcio

Ian Checcio is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in the USL A-League.
Checcio played youth soccer with FC Delco. In 1994, Checcio graduated from Radnor High School where he was a multi-year letterman in baseball, basketball and soccer. Checcio attended Rutgers University, playing on the men's soccer team from 1994 to 1997. In 1998, the Staten Island Vipers selected Checcio with the last pick in the A-League Draft. Over the next five seasons, Checcio played for a different team each year. In February 2001, Checcio moved to the Atlanta Silverbacks. He finished his career in 2002 with the Hampton Roads Mariners.