SAN ANTONIO \u2013 It was a night of celebration inside the Stars at Night Ballroom as San Antonio Sports welcomed its newest class of Hall of Famers on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
A packed crowd filled the Henry B. Gonz\u00e1lez Convention Center for the annual event, emceed by News 4 Sports Director Don Harris.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s inductees included four legendary individuals along with the San Antonio Spurs\u2019 1999 championship team, marking a special moment in the city\u2019s storied sports history.<\/p>\n
The class featured former SAISD superintendent Dr. Victor Rodriguez, multi-sport star Sharon Neugebauer-Shepard, who was an All-American in track and volleyball at the University of Texas, the original Spurs Coyote, Tim Derk, and former Alamo Heights basketball coach Charlie Boggess. <\/p>\n
The honor was long overdue for coach Boggess, San Antonio’s all time winningest high school basketball coach, put up just an amazing record, all while having a lasting impact on the lives of the young men he influenced.<\/p>\n
Since 1995, the Sports Hall of Fame has recognized people with San Antonio ties who have impacted the city’s sports community with their involvement or athletic programs. <\/p>\n
Proceeds from the gala benefit San Antonio Sports’ youth and community programs, which provide sports and fitness opportunities for thousands of kids every year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 It was a night of celebration inside the Stars at Night Ballroom as San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[129968,5229,6561,59062,129971,129969,7202,7203,129970,7199,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-245235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-1999-championship","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-celebration","11":"tag-hall-of-fame","12":"tag-henry-b-gonzalez","13":"tag-inductees","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-sports-hall","17":"tag-spurs","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115245463950614234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}