The Occidental Athletics Hall of Fame adds to its ranks with a 10th outstanding class
The Occidental Athletics Hall of Fame welcomed five new inductees into its ranks on October 20. The Class of 2024 includes:
Andy Steben ’69, who won the NAIA Men’s Championship in each of his three tries (from 1967 to 1969), and placed fifth in the 1968 Olympic trials. Steben has also served for the last 45 years as the College’s pole vaulting coach—a record untouched by any coach of any sport at SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½.
Sue Rene Brazee ’82, the No. 2 singles player for the 1981-82 Tigers women’s tennis squad, which won the first-ever NCAA Division III national championship in the sport in May 1982. A psychology major at SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, she completed a master’s in clinical psychology from Pepperdine in 2010 and is a licensed marriage and family therapist.
Trevor Moawad ’95, who played both basketball and soccer for the Tigers, earning All-SCIAC honors in soccer as a junior and senior. A politics major at SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, he was both director of mental conditioning and director of the IMG Performance Institute at the IMG Academies in Bradenton, Fla., from 2000 to 2012. In 2014, he formed Moawad Consulting Group. Moawad died in 2021 after a two-year battle with cancer.
Finn Rebassoo ’03, who is the No. 2 all-time scorer for the men’s basketball program, finishing his career with 1,562 points. He led the Tigers to an unprecedented 14-0 record in SCIAC play and an overall 25-3 season that took SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ all the way to Division III’s Elite Eight in 2003. A physics major at SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, Rebassoo has an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from UC Santa Barbara and is a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The 2007-08 women’s basketball team, which notched their first SCIAC championÂship in 28 years—the first of five consecutive conference titles. Team members include: Stephanie Babij ’11, Bri Brown ’09, Natalie Kolodinski Greenhouse ’09, Kassy Griswold ’11, Asha Jordan ’09, Brittany Mally ’10, Laur Mohler ’10, Gillian Nugent ’10, Stacie Roshon Roller ’08, Madeline Rose ’11, Samantha Rossi ’10, Jenny Wilhelm Shore ’10, Zoe Walsh ’11, Dior Williams ’10, Caitlin Morgan Wright ’11, and Britinee Yasukochi ’10. Head Coach Jamie Hoffman and assistants Avi Meyerson and Anahit Aladzhanyan ’07 were also honored.
