CCAA Announces 2016 Hall of Fame Class
SAN RAMON – Two exceptional coaches, a former two-time National Men’s Golfer of the Year, a former Honda Award winner, and a pair standout women’s soccer and women’s basketball student-athletes make up the the California Collegiate Athletic Association Hall of Fame Class of 2016.
The class consists of former Cal State Bakersfield softball and men’s basketball head coaches, Kathy Welter and Joseph Patrick Douglass, respectively; Cal State Northridge women’s volleyball player Angela Collins; UC San Diego women’s soccer player Julia Cuder; Stanislaus State women’s basketball player Shannon Donnelly; and Sonoma State men’s golfer Jarin Todd.
Welter and Douglass placed the west on the map in their respective sports, helping the Roadrunners to a combined 17 CCAA Championships and six NCAA Division II Championship titles.
Welter took over as the CSUB head softball coach in 1986, turning the program into a powerhouse that snagged 11 Conference titles and NCAA titles in 1988, 1989, and 1990. In her 26 years at Bakersfield she compiled an overall record of 1129-573-7, which ranks 17th in the NCAA all-time record book and places her fifth in the NCAA Division II record book. Prior to Bakersfield’s transition to Division I, Welter compiled a .704 (369-155) winning percentage, earning herself the Conference’s Coach of the Year plaque five times (1988, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2006), while also tabbing her the NFCA West Region Coach of the Year four times and NFCA National Coach of the Year on two occasions.
Douglass coached men’s basketball at all levels from 1973 until his retirement from UC Irvine in 2010, but it was his ten-year stint at Cal State Bakersfield from 1987 to 1997 that he will be remembered for. While he was at the helm of the Roadrunners program Douglass guided his teams to an overall Division II record of 257-61, qualifying for the NCAA tournament in all 10 seasons and winning three of the CCAA’s five National Championships. At the Conference level his teams won six CCAA titles with its record of 91-30, which included a perfect 33-0 record in 1993, something only three Division II teams have done to date. The four-time CCAA Coach of the Year and three-time NABC Coach of the Year already belongs to the Bob Elias Hall of Fame, which he was inducted in 2004, and the Eastern Montana University Hall of Fame (1999), where he coached six years prior to joining the CSUSB staff.
Two-time first-team All-America setter Angela Collins, formerly known as Angela Brinton, transferred to Cal State Northridge in 1986 where she played for the women’s volleyball team for two seasons. The Glendale native led the Matadors to consecutive NCAA Final appearances in 1986 and 1987 and to an NCAA Division II Women’s Volleyball Championship title in 1987. As a senior, Collins snagged just about every award available after being named the Cal State Northridge Female Athlete of the Year, the CCAA’s Most Valuable Player, the Reebok Player of the Year, and, most impressively, was named the 1987 Honda Broderick Athlete of the Year, which at the time was awarded to one women’s volleyball player among all three NCAA divisions. Collins’s name remains in the CSUN record books, ranking first in career hitting percentage (.397), fourth in single-season hitting pct. (.363), and 10th with 1,017 single-season assists. After concluding her eligibility, Collins remained a part of the women’s volleyball program, serving as an assistant in 1988 and 1989. She was inducted into the Northridge Hall of Fame in 1993 and most recently was inducted to the Glendale Community College Hall of Fame in 2011.
Cuder was a three-year women’s soccer player for the Tritons and was a member of the CCAA during her final two years with the UCSD program. The two-time Division II All-America selection helped UCSD to three consecutive national titles, two of them in the Tritons’ first-two seasons of joining Division II in 2000 and 2001. Post-NAIA, she led the Tritons to an overall record of 42-4 and a CCAA mark of 24-4 with a total of 12 goals, 18 assists, and 42 points. The centerback earned UCSD Athlete of the Year honors following her junior and senior seasons and became the first-ever Triton student-athlete to receive CCAA Player of the Year honors. She continues to hold the program record and is tied for the Conference record for assists in a single match after assisting on four goals against United States International University in 2000.
Donnelly was a three-time Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Association (WBCA) All-America choice and four-time NCAA All-West Region forward for the Stanislaus State (then Cal State Stanislaus) women’s basketball team from 1999-2003. During her career she helped the Warriors to an overall record of 66-45, including a second-place CCAA finish and the program’s only NCAA appearance since joining the Conference in 1998. Donnelly averaged 19.9 points and 11.3 rebounds per game and shot 52.7 percent from the field, while also holding a combined 38 single-game, single-season, and career records, including points in a game (42), points in a season (612), points in a career (2,088), and rebounds in a season (1191). She also totaled 70 career double-doubles and 52 20-point games. In 2003, Donnelly’s No. 35 jersey became the first of just two to be retired by the women’s basketball program. In 2003 she graduated with a degree in physical education and went on to play two years professionally in Norway, where she averaged 36 points, 15 rebounds, and 2.5 steals per game. Most recently Donnelly was inducted to the Stanislaus Hall of Fame in 2011.
Todd began his rewarding golf career at Sonoma State, where he was a member of the men’s golf team from 2005-2009. In his four years with the Seawolves he was named CCAA Golfer of the Year twice and was also a three-time PING All-America selection. Todd is not only the lone Sonoma State men’s golfer in school history to be named his sport’s national player of the year, but he also accomplished the feat twice, earning the Jack Nicklaus Award as a sophomore (2007) and a junior (2008). He led the Seawolves to consecutive CCAA titles in 2008 and 2009, an NCAA West Region Title in 2008, and an NCAA Division II National Championship in 2009. Todd continues to hold the school records for career round average (71.68), career win-loss percentage (.903), single-season round average (70.4), single-season win-loss percentage (.964), nine tournament wins, 26 top-five finishes, and 38 top-10 finishes. Since graduating in 2009, Todd has golfed professionally, both in the United States and Internationally.
The CCAA will honor the six inductees on June 1, 2016, at the Fountaingrove Inn | The Steakhouse @ Equus in Santa Rosa.
The CCAA Hall of Fame was created during the 2013-14 academic year, in conjunction with the celebration of the Conference’s 75th Anniversary. Past inductees are:
Class of 2014
Nicole Duncan Chance, Cal State LA
Bob Hiegert, CCAA; Cal State Northridge
Carmelita Jeter, Cal State Dominguez Hills
Darlene May, Cal Poly Pomona
Kim Morohunfola, Cal State San Bernardino
John Scolinos, Cal Poly Pomona
Class of 2015
Rudy Carvajal, Cal State Bakersfield
Sonja Garnett, San Francisco State
Ruth Van’t Land-Parkes, Cal Poly Pomona
Michael Krukow, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Gary Torgeson, Cal State Northridge