I. Purpose

In order to preserve our athletic history, the Pleasant Hill High School Athletic Hall of Fame was founded in 2022. The Athletic Hall of Fame is organized for the purpose of recognizing the rich tradition of athletic success at Pleasant Hill High School. It serves as a means of honoring and recognizing the athletes, teams, coaches, and supporters who made significant contributions to the Ram tradition of excellence. The Athletic Hall of Fame honors the contributions and accomplishments of these individuals and teams who are worthy of recognition. Induction ceremonies will be held annually.

The Pleasant Hill High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee adopts the following bylaws for the Selection Committee:

II. Selection Committee

• The Hall of Fame Selection Committee shall include the following members and shall consist of no more than 16 members.

At-large members:

• Alumni Association members, representing a cross-section of decades including coaches, teachers, athletes, administrators and supporters of PHHS.
• While there are no explicit qualifications for at-large committee members, care shall be exercised to select members who have knowledge of the athletic history of PHHS and are representative of the various periods of that history. Members of the committee must abstain from voting if a member of his/her immediate family or relative is proposed.
• The initial term of committee members shall be 3 years with rotating new members in every year.
• The standing members shall select a Chair Person to conduct the meetings including agendas and any appropriate materials.
• The standing members shall elect a Secretary. The Secretary will maintain minutes from selection meetings.
• The Standing members shall select a Treasurer to keep financial records and collect revenue as well as tracking expenses. other high schools in the area, consideration will be given to those student/athletes that attended another high school and finished their athletic careers at that school.
• The standing members shall select a person to run the Webpage for the purpose of communicating the goals of the PHHS Athletic Hall of Fame.
• The Committee will be responsible for the selection of Hall of Fame inductees. The committee will meet every year to vote on candidates for the Hall of Fame.
• The Committee shall induct members/teams into the Hall of Fame. The number of inductees may vary. The Committee shall vote on the nominees it determines suitable for consideration. A minimum positive vote of 75% of members present is required for induction.
• Members that miss three meetings with unexcused absences will be removed from the committee.

III. Nominations

The Selection Committee will develop a form upon which nominations will be made. The form must be completed and the qualifications of the proposed inductee must be clearly set forth in the form.

• Nominations may be made by anyone, however self-nominations or unsigned/anonymous nominations will not be accepted.
• The Selection Committee has developed a form upon which nominations can be made. The form must be completed and the qualifications of the proposed inductee must be clearly set forth in the form.
• Nominations for consideration may be made by the Selection Committee or by public nominations. Application for nominations are available on the PHHS Hall of Fame website for a publicized period of time every year.
• Nominations must be received by specified deadline to be considered for the current induction class.
• The Selection Committee shall have the discretion to narrow the field of nominees.
• Nomination forms will be kept and reviewed annually if candidate is not inducted for current class.

IV. Eligibility/Criteria

• Athletes, coaches, teams, administrators or supporters, living or deceased, shall be eligible for induction subject to the criteria below. All nominees must represent the Pleasant Hill High School tradition of excellence and the values of athletic participation.

Athletes:

• Must be a PHHS graduate - selection committee will have discretion in unique, special circumstances (i.e.; death, accident). However, during the time the school shutdown (1979-80), students went to either Ygnacio Valley, College Park and/or other high schools in the area, consideration will be given to those student/athletes that attended another high school and finished their athletic careers at that school.
• Must have lettered in one or more Varsity sports.
• Athletic ability, sportsmanship, character, leadership, contribution to team and the games he/she participated in. A similar standard of ethics shall have characterized the years following their time at Pleasant Hill High School, to the best of the committee’s knowledge.
• Awarded All-Conference, All-North Coast, All-State, any individual or team championship, any record or winning streak, league leader in recognized statistical category, college scholarship, etc. Achievements should be on record and verified by copies of news clippings, yearbooks, certificates of awards, etc. All-star teams, tournaments, and awards were less common in earlier eras and documentation of achievements might not exist, especially for older nominees. This should be taken into consideration.
• Committee may also consider post-graduate activities including college and professional experience.
• Athletes will also be considered for superior athletic achievements in other sports that were not offered at Pleasant Hill High School. For example, cycling, skiing, soccer to name a few, that a student may have participated and excelled during his/her high school career. This would also include many female athletes that participated in sports prior to the Title IX mandates in the mid-1970’s.

Coaches:

• Any coach with 5+ years coaching experience at PHHS is eligible (the Committee may make exceptions as to years experience in unique, special circumstances).
• Accomplishments (individual or teams) must have merited league and/or statewide recognition, as well as made significant contributions to the athletic programs at PHHS.
• Coaching ability, loyalty to PHHS, leadership, character, athletic expertise, significant contribution to their teams and to the sports they coached must have been demonstrated
• The same ethical and life standards expected of his/her athletes shall also characterize the life of the coach.
• As with student/athletes that attended other high schools when Pleasant Hill shut down, that same consideration will be given coaches that continued coaching at other schools.

Teams:

• Championship teams having attained record status.

Administrators/Staff/Volunteers/Supporters

• Exceptional leadership, character, loyalty to PHHS and the passion for, and support of, the success of Pleasant Hill High School athletics is paramount.

V. Voting Procedures

• The Selection Committee shall review all candidates based on information available at the time of the meeting.
• After open discussion about candidates, the Committee shall call for a vote for the purpose of selecting a slate of inductees to vote upon. To be listed on the slate of final nominees to be voted upon, the Athletic Hall of Fame the nominee must receive an 75% approval rating from all voting members.
• A survey will go out to the committee allowing a vote of a specified number of inductees whom they feel should be inducted into the next PHHS Athletic Hall of Fame Class. Every effort should be made to induct deserving candidates who are more senior in age before more recent graduates, while attempting to represent a good cross-section of graduation year/age, sport, male/female in a given induction class.
• The voting procedure and details must be kept confidential.
• Hall of Fame selections will be announced after the individual/teams have been notified and their acceptance of the induction and participation in the ceremony are verified.

VII. Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

• An Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will occur every year or every other year depending on the circumstances, every effort should attempt to make it every year.
• A sub-committee from the Hall of Fame Committee will plan the Recognition/Awards Dinner.
• Each inductee must attend the Hall of Fame ceremony. If the inductee is deceased, a representative must attend the ceremony. In the case of an emergency or other hardship, which precludes the inductee or representative from attendance, the Hall of Fame Committee will make the appropriate decision regarding induction.
• On the evening of the induction, new members are guests of honor at the induction dinner.
• New members are presented with a Hall of Fame memento and their name will be listed on the Hall of Fame Website and Hall of Fame Recognition Wall, which is permanently displayed at Pleasant Hill High School (Now called PH Middle School).

VIII. Bylaws

• The Committee reserves the rights to amend the Bylaws, if needed.