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Two current Cheney residents are among those who will be inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in ceremonies that take place this Saturday.
The new inductees include the 1950 football team, which won Eastern's third-straight Evergreen Conference championship and finished the year with five-straight shutouts and an 8-2 record. The coach from that team, Albert Harold “Abe” Poffenroth will be inducted posthumously.
Other individual inductees include track and field standouts - and Cheney residents - Curt Hisaw and Seville Broussard-Hering, as well as former women's basketball coach Bill Smithpeters. Former Eastern golfer and legendary Canadian broadcaster Ernie Afaganis will receive the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame Service and Contribution Award.
Established in 1996, this year's inductees will bring the total number of individuals in the Hall of Fame to 53. Seven teams will have also been inducted, and Afaganis will be the fourth recipient of the Service and Contribution Award.
Honoring the inductees
The inductees will be honored with a breakfast and ceremony that starts at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 9 at the Pence Union Building. The public is invited to attend (RSVP to 509-359-2463 or 1-800-648-7697) and the cost is $15 per person.
Cheney inductees:
Seville Broussard-Hering
(Athlete/Track & Field)
Broussard scored more than 100 points for Eastern at Big Sky Conference Championship Track and Field meets, easily the most in school history as she won five league titles. She finished her career seventh in Big Sky history with 54 points scored in indoor conference meets from 1997-99, and scored another 55 outdoors. Both marks are school records, and still rank among the highest in league history. She won Big Sky championships indoors in the high jump (1998 and 1999) and 55 hurdles (1997), and won two titles outdoors in the 400 hurdles (1997 and 1998). She broke six school records -- three each indoors and outdoors. She set records outdoors in the 400 hurdles (48.12 in 1999), 100 hurdles (13.52 in 1999) and high jump (5-10 in 1997). Indoors she broke records in the 55 hurdles (7.85 in 1998), 60 hurdles (8.51 in 1999) and high jump (5-11 1/4 in 1995). All six of those records still stand. On five occasions she earned Big Sky Athlete of the Week accolades. She is married to current Cheney High School track and field coach Todd Hering and is now a professor in communications studies at EWU.
Curt Hisaw
(Athlete/Track & Field)
A four-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) All-American, Hisaw won three NAIA pole vault championships and broke three NAIA records while at Eastern. He was the NAIA Indoor Champion in 1970 with a record vault of 15-6 1/2 after finishing as the runner-up the year before. He also won outdoor titles in 1969 (16-1 1/4) and 1970 (16-3 3/4) as he broke the NAIA record in 1969 and broke his own record the following year. He was Evergreen Conference Champion in 1969 with a conference record vault of 15-6 1/2, and his vault of 16-3 3/4 in 1970 stood as a school record for 18 years. He is still one of only seven Eastern athletes to ever clear 16 feet indoors or outdoors in the pole vault (only three had until 2005), and he still ranks fourth in school history behind only Ben Cogdill (16-8 1/4 in 2010), Todd Frietag (16-7 in 1988) and Mike Erickson (16-7 1/4 in 2005). He also won the Evergreen Conference title in the 120-yard high hurdles in 1970 with a time of 14.5, which at the time was the second-best in school history and now ranks third. He received his degree from Eastern in 1970 and was voted as a Top Ten Senior by his graduating class. He went on to serve as a teacher, coach and administrator in the Cheney and East Valley school districts, and is now retired and living in Cheney. His wife, Joan, is a 1968 graduate of Eastern and also worked in the Cheney School District. Married in 1968, both are 1964 graduates of East Valley High School. After retiring from teaching, they both continued to serve as assistant coaches at Cheney High School through the 2009 season.
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