CLU Athletic Hall of Fame to induct seven

A former football coach and six athletes will be inducted into the California Lutheran University Alumni Association Athletic Hall of Fame during the fifth annual induction ceremony at 7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 6 in CLU's Gilbert Arena, 60 W. Olsen Road in Thousand Oaks.

The event coincides with Homecoming and Family Weekend.

The inductees are as follows:

•Steve Gross (Santa Paula), basketball, Class of 1965.

Gross came to California Lutheran College in its inaugural year and averaged 21.4 points per game during his freshman year.

He played all four seasons, maintaining an average of 15.1 points per game in his career. Gross scored a career high 33 points in his final collegiate game in 1965.

He was voted Most Valuable Player for three years and named team captain.

Gross was one of the athletes who helped build the original gym and lay the floor. He also ran cross country his freshman year.

He taught and coached in Briggs School District in Santa Paula.

•Michael Hagen (Duluth, Ga.), football, Class of 1980.

His father maintained CLU's athletic facilities when the campus hosted the Dallas Cowboys' training camps.

Hagen was a three-year starter at wide receiver. He was Division II All-American as a junior and senior, and set single season and career receiving records for the Kingsmen.

He was a talent scout in the National Football League, where he has evaluated personnel for the Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Washington Redskins and Atlanta Falcons. He has been with teams playing in the Super Bowl seven times.

A member of the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame, Hagen is currently the Southeast scout for the Kansas City Chiefs.

•Kimberly Holeman (Thousand Oaks), soccer, Class of 1998.

Holeman won many honors in her four years on CLU's soccer team: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship team member for four years; named to the AllSCIAC first team and second team for two years each; and National Soccer Coaches Association of America third team AllAmerican and first team AllWest Region in her senior year.

A two-year captain for the Regals, she helped the team make the National Collegiate Athletic Association postseason three times. She was named Most Valuable Player in her senior year.

She played for the Southern California State team and a nationally ranked women's squad as well as coached youth, high school and CLU soccer.

•Dr. James G. Kallas (Agua Dulce), football assistant coach/ chaplain, 1961-78.

A former player for the Chicago Bears, Kallas spent 17 years as the backfield coach and chaplain for the Kingsmen football team.

He was the first chair of the religion department and played a key role in the formation of the athletic programs, helping to recruit the first football coach, Robert "Bob" Shoup.

He left CLU to take over Lutheran College in Nebraska. He is a scholar, theologian and author.

•Aluede Okohere (West Valley City, Utah), soccer, Class of 1997.

A native of Nigeria, Okohere was SCIAC Player of the Year in 1995 and 1996, and a member of two SCIAC Championship teams.

He made third team NSCAA All-American and first team NSCAA All-West Region in his junior and senior year.

•LaVannes Rose (Palmdale), track and field, Class of 1977.

In his final two years at CLU he was an outstanding sprinter, breaking five CLU records his junior year and six more in his senior.

He earned AllAmerican status in 1976 after anchoring CLU's 400-meter relay team at the NCAA Division 3 National Track and Field Championships.

The following year at the NCAA championships, Rose was named All-American in 100- and 200-meter sprints and the 400-meter relay.

•Steve Trumbauer (Placerville), football/baseball, Class of 1977.

Trumbauer started for the varsity football and baseball teams all four years at CLU. He was selected for National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics All-District honors three times each for baseball and football.

As a pitcher, he was named All-American in 1976. As a tight end, he made the All-Lutheran first team in 1977.

Trumbauer was named Most Valuable Lineman and the baseball team's Most Valuable Player. After graduating, he spent two years with the California Angels.

Gary Trumbauer, Steve Trumbauer's brother and a 1979 graduate who also excelled on the football field, will serve as master of ceremonies at the banquet.

Tickets for the banquet are $125.

For more information, call (805) 493-3170 or visit www .callutheran.edu/alumni/hof/.