Flagstaff Sports Foundation

The Foundation wishes to send HAPPY BIRTHDAY wishes to MIKE MORAN, from the Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

Mike's coaching resume stretches for nearly fifty years. While primarily known for his basketball accomplishments, he also coached baseball, football, track and field, and volunteered with the Special Olympics. He bounced back and forth among several Flagstaff schools, either as a head coach or an assistant. It didn't matter if he was coaching boys or girls.

He led Coconino Boys Basketball to two 4A Final Fours, in 1998 and 2021. In just varsity-level basketball in Flagstaff, he collected 331 wins.

He also coached Coconino Football for one season, in 2018, bringing the Panthers back to respectability; the Panthers have been a winner ever since.

Thank you to Sierra Lee.

The Flagstaff Sports Foundation sends HAPPY BIRTHDAY wishes to one of our Hall of Fame's most recent inductees, TERRENCE SIMS.

On this day in 1964, Terrence was born to Jim and Shirley Sims. He played football and ran track for Flagstaff High School, but it was basketball where his talents and passion lied. He led the Eagles to the AA state semifinals as a junior. He earned All-State status two years in a row before moving on to NAU.

Before he became a star with the Lumberjacks, he was sent to Eastern Arizona College, where he was a leader on a Gila Monsters team that won the NJCAA Region 9 championship. He came back to Flagstaff in 1985 and played a vital role coming off the bench as the Jacks won the Big Sky regular season title, so vital that he earned the Big Sky Conference Sixth Man of the Year Award. He was a full-time starter his senior year and averaged 12.6 points per game and had a high of 29 against Concordia.

Terrence was inducted into the Hall of Fame's Class of 2026. Previously he was inducted into NAU Athletic Hall of Fame as part of that 1985-86 team that won the conference title.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to WILLARD REAVES. Willard was inducted into the Flagstaff Sports Foundation's Hall of Fame in 2012.

Born on August 17, 1959, Willard graduated from Coconino High School in 1977, played under the great BILL EPPERSON, and was the second Panther to run for over a thousand yards. He moved on to NAU, where he gained All-Big Sky Conference and All-American status after rushing for 1,084 yards in 1979.

His greatest claim to fame came when he played with the Winnipeg BlueBombers of the CFL. In 1984 he ran for 1,733 yards as he led the Bombers to the Grey Cup and won the league's Most Outstanding Player Award. After a contract dispute, Willard tried his hand at the NFL. He played two games for the Miami Dolphins and one for the Washington Redskins. He is the only Coconino Panther to play a regular season game in the NFL.

Along with the Foundation's Hall of Fame, Willard is also in the NAU Athletics Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. He still lives in Canada, having built a career in law enforcement and is moving onto a political career in Manitoba.

The Foundation would like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to SHAUNA KIFER (Isbell). She turns 35 today.

Born on this day in 1991, Shauna is a member of Coconino's Class of 2009. As a Panther she participated in track and field, cross country, and volleyball, but it's wrestling where she made her mark. In an era before girls' wrestling was sanctioned by the AIA, Shauna not only competed with the boys, but was successful against them. She placed fourth in the 2009 4A-II state championships, wrestling at 112 pounds, finishing her senior season with a record of 36-11.

She earned an academic and athletic scholarship to Lindenwood University in Missouri, where she became a four-time Women's Collegiate Wrestling Association All-American and, in 2012, a national champion. She finished third in the 2012 Olympic Trials and second in the 2012 World Team Trials. She has represented the United States in wrestling all over the world.

She was inducted into the Flagstaff Sports Foundation's Hall of Fame's Class of 2025. At the time of her induction she was the executive director of Safe Shelter, a non-profit that helps victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in North Dakota.

Nominations for the 2027 Flagstaff Sports Foundation Hall of Fame now open Anyone in the community can now nominate candidates for the 2027 Flagstaff Sports Foundation Hall of Fame class.

Now that the Hall of Fame Class of 2026 has been inducted, now that we have celebrated them with a banquet and had a wonderful time Saturday night, nominations for the Class of 2027 are now being accepted.

If you went to the banquet, there was a booklet at your seat, and at the back of that booklet was a page that instructed you on how to nominate someone you believe is worthy of being in the Hall of Fame. If you didn't get the booklet, here's what you do:

--Go to flagstaffsportsfoundation.org, and at the top of the page there is a Hall of Fame tab. Roll your cursor over that tab, and a set of options will appear. Click on List of Inductees to see everyone the Foundation has inducted into the Hall over the years.

--If the someone you're thinking about nominating isn't on the list, roll the cursor over the tab again and find the Selection Process page. There is a link for the 2026 nomination form. Click it, and the form will appear. Print it, fill it out, include a two-page summary, and send it to the address on that page. The Selection Committee must receive your package by March 1, 2017.

That's it! That's all you have to do!

I'm posting this because there's always someone who believes a certain athlete or coach deserves to be in and isn't. Don't complain. Do something about it. The beauty of our Hall of Fame is that we rely on the people of Flagstaff to do the nominating. Take the initiative yourself. Don't assume someone else will do it. If it's something you feel strongly about, print out the form. Summarize his or her accomplishments. Make the case. Mail it to the Committee with time to spare. This is YOUR Hall of Fame. We want YOU to take ownership of it.

Thank you to to the Arizona Daily Sun 's BRENDEN MARTIN for the write-up and HATTIE LOPEZ for the pictures!

Flagstaff Sports Foundation honors generations with 2026 Hall of Fame class The Flagstaff Sports Foundation inducted its 2026 Hall of Fame class on Saturday, celebrating local accomplishments old and new.