Hall of Famer Tom Flores flips the coin to decide who will punt in a football game between Sanger and Bullard high schools. Photo courtesy of the Sanger Herald.

Sanger High School and the Sanger Historical Society will honor homegrown athletes both living and dead on May 5 at the Sanger community center in a Hall of Fame they can call their own, according to a press release from the Sanger Herald.

“Sanger High School has a long athletic history dating back to the beginning of the school in 1899,” athletic director Brian Penner. “At long last, a Sanger High School Athletic Hall of Fame is being created as a way to preserve and honor that illustrious past.”

For the first round of inductions, the ceremony will honor 10 posthumous and 10 living honorees who either played or coached at the high school, including NFL player and coach Tom Flores, who won Super Bowls on both sides of the field as well as the former Fresno State baseball coach Pete Beiden, who were already in the Fresno County Athletic Hall of Fame.

George Takata, the former CBS 47 news anchor and current director of marketing and communications for State Center Community College District, will be the emcee for the dinner.

In future years, inductions will be limited to 10 people in any one of four categories—athletes, alumni, coaches and contributors.

Sanger Historical Society will house memorabilia as well as information about the award recipients at their Harding building, an old brick school house the society owns.

The inductees:

Tom Flores

Pete Beiden

Clare Slaughter

JR Boone

Huntley Dayton

Jim Merlo

Bruce Barnes

Herman Cooks

Cole Herron

David Naranjo

Rene Schneider

Brian Wallin

Brent Webber

Lynette Wilke

Gene Green

Bill Herron

Nick Katzemyer

Dean Nicholson

Louis Papac

Bill Powell