The Kitsap Athletic Roundtable’s 2024 Hall of Fame class has been announced, the latest round of soon-to-be inductees headlined by a late beloved North Kitsap coach, a four-time state champion wrestler from Kingston and a former Washington Huskies lineman whose playing time extends back to the days of East High.

A total of 12 people and one team will be recognized at the Roundtable’s annual ceremony Feb. 1, 2025 at the Suquamish Tribe’s Kiana Lodge near Poulsbo.

The naming of Dave Snyder seemed automatic, the former defensive coordinator helping build the county’s best football team of the past decade, heading a track and field program that claimed a 2012 state title and produced many more individual champions. Yet the true value of his impact in athletics, as a teacher and as a friend to the NK community was realized in the midst of a devastating tragedy last summer after he suddenly died at age 54.

NK alum KC Fossum, whose aspirations to play volleyball while studying at Seattle Pacific or Northern Arizona were sunk without so much as a tryout, went on to make her mark as a part of Olympic College’s 2012 co-North Region championship team, which also took second in the Northwest Athletic Conference championships.

Tleena Ree Ives, another former Viking and a member of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, played for the Olympic College women’s basketball team that won the NWAC North and placed sixth in the NWAC championships in 1996. The certified instructor in kickboxing and Kaia Fit has a number of famous races such as the 2016 Boston Marathon and two Ironman triathlons under her belt, and she was also a longtime puller for her tribe’s canoe journey.

Out of Kingston’s young wrestling program came an athlete of an exclusive class in Bobby Reece III. The 2014 graduate is just one of 18 boys in Washington to win four titles in all four trips to state, managing to do so in a different weight class each year from 140 pounds in 2011, 152 in 2012, 160 in 2013 and 170 in his senior year. Reece ended with a 149-2 record, winning 102 straight prior to that first defeat. He also quarterbacked Kingston’s sole state-qualifying football teams in 2012 and 2013.

Rob Scheyer made his mark in football and basketball at East Bremerton High, the crucial rebound machine and sixth man who helped lead his hoops team to a 19-1 regular season record in 1958 and a fifth-place finish at state. Scheyer locked into the gridiron as a lineman for the Huskies, emerging as a team captain and honorable mention All-American. In his sophomore season, the Huskies beat Minnesota to claim the Rose Bowl in 1960. Scheyer joins his father Dwight in the Hall of Fame.

While currently the superintendent of the NK School District, Rachel Davenport was a three-sport athlete at Central Kitsap High School. She earned all-league honors as a junior and senior in volleyball, basketball and softball, and she took on coaching roles at all three CKSD high schools for those sports and would also play collegiate softball for Ole Miss.

Not many Pac-8 college baseball players were hitting the ball better than Frank Jackson during his first base career with the Washington State Cougars. The athlete from West Bremerton and eventual Cougar co-captain helped lead his team in Pullman to winning records from 1970-72, batting with a .344 average and driving in 38 runs in 42 games his senior year. He was an honorable mention All-American, and would also go on to guide Washougal’s baseball program to two of its three state championships in the 1970s.

CK softball certainly enjoyed the presence of Jackie Miller on the diamond, the league MVP in 2001 leading her Cougars to a third-place state finish in 2000. Miller played NCAA Division 2 softball for Cal State Stanislaus, then for Cal State Dominquez Hills, where she went 18-4 with a sub-2.0 ERA to help the Toros win the California Collegiate Athletic Association championship in 2005. Miller tallied a 20-win season in 2006.

Mark Knowles, a Class of ‘86 North Mason graduate and eventual PGA golf pro, was a former All-Pac-10 golfer for WSU and is currently the area director of golf for Columbia Hospitality, the manager of Bremerton’s Gold Mountain Golf Course among seven other Washington courses. Knowles most recently qualified for the Senior Professional PGA Championship in 2021 and won the PNW Senior Players Championship in 2023.

The 2007 North Mason softball team was the sole team out of 11- straight trips to the state bracket to win it all, capturing the 2A state crown under coach Paula Grande.

A trio of annual award winners are also to be recognized. The Rex Brown Distinguished Service Award is being awarded to the Tom Myers Family for its dedication to bowling in Kitsap, specifically through the Hi-Joy Bowl in Port Orchard and All Star Lanes in Silverdale.

The 14th recipient of the Dick Todd Award will be longtime track and field official Deanna Dowell, whose services have been utilized in high school, college and senior meets as well as the Olympic Trials and NCAA Championships.

John Sitton will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades of work as an athlete, coach, administrator and broadcaster. Sitton played basketball and baseball at West Bremerton and Olympic College, went on to coach at Bremerton and CK. He is still a volunteer announcer for West Sound Community Television.