2006 GCC Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees

1980 Women's Cross Country - Outstanding Team

The 1980 women's cross country team won the state championship after also winnin state championship in 1977 and 1979/ The back to back championships in 1979 and 1980 were the first in school histroy for any sport. The 1977 team, under head coach Diane Spangler, was inducted into the athletic hall of fame in 2003.

1980 Men's Cross Country - Outstanding Team

The 1980 men's cross country team won the state championship under head coach John Tansley, who is being inducted in the outstanding coach category. The men's cross country teams won five state championships over the past three decades, the most of any sport in school history. They won titles in 1974, 1976, 1980, 1995 and 1998.

Mike Haney - Outstanding Athletic Achievement

Haney was an All-WSC and All-State golfer for Bill Reinhard in 1971. He was captain of the USC golf team in 1973 and was also named All-American that year. He recently retired as Batalion Chief of the Glendale Fire Department.

Blanche Donovan - Outstanding Athletic Achievement

Blanche Donovan retired in 1992 after 32 years of teaching and coaching at Glendale. She was the women's Physical Education Chair for 10 years and also taught PE, volleyball, body mechanics, yoga, stress reduction, tennis and adapted education. She also coached the co-ed volleyball team for several years.

John Tansley - Outstanding Athletic Achievement

Tansley coached the 1975 GCC trach team and 1980 cross-country teams to state championships. His teams won over 50 WSC meets in a row in the 1970's and he coached several individual state champions.

Lon Simmons & Bill Thompson - Pillars of Achievement

Both men were classmates at Burbank High and Glendale College, where they pitched and caught for the baseball team and later were part of a three-man broadcast team withlegendary New York Giants announcer Russ Hodges. Both were inducted into the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002 for their lengthy relationship with that city. Besides his broadcast work witht he Giants, Simmons worked behind the micriphone for the Oackland Athletics and San Francisco 49ers in the NFL and was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004 for his body of work as a broadcaster.