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Fremont's Sueh-Han Liew was one of 23 winners of the school's Medal of Distinction at the recent spring sports awards night. Liew, who won the award for girls' cross country, was also honored as a scholar athlete in track.

Fremont athletes honored

Firebirds honor past, current athletes

By Dick Sparrer

The banners honoring the greats in Fremont athletic history hang from the walls of the school's gym.

And as athletes gathered beneath those banners last month to share recognition for both the recently completed spring season and the school year, two more Fremont greats took their rightful places on the gym wall.

Former Central Coast Section cross country champions Jack Larson (1968) and Beth Bartholomew (1990) were honored when a banner was unfurled to recognize their achievements.

The ceremony was all part of the spring sports night sponsored by the Fremont Athletic Boosters that featured the presentation of awards to outstanding spring athletes, and the first-ever presentation of the Fremont Medal of Distinction awards to deserving athletes.

The Medal of Distinction was the idea of Fremont athletic commissioner Monica Blankenship. And a packed house in the Fremont gym recognized the 23 medal winners with warm approval.

"It was so classy," said Fremont athletic director Pat Lawson of the award. "It really turned out to be a great thing...tons of applause and very moving."

"My goal was to get more students involved in after-school sports and to extend recognition for the minority sports," wrote Blankenship in her explanation of the award. "This medal is for the most dedicated athlete of each sport at Fremont."

To be eligible for the bronze medal, athletes had to: always be at practice, be on time, be cheerful, encourage other teammates, have an eager desire to succeed, go the extra mile, and be passionate about their sport.

Fremont Medal of Distinction winners for the 1997-98 school year were Teri Ahlmann, girls' soccer; Matt Sabraw, wrestling; Charles Marsigan, boys' track; Jessica Ackerman, girls' basketball; Steven Pon, boys' swimming; Corin Gilbertson, girls' swimming; Amin Khairy, boys' soccer; Shawn Hargrove, boys' volleyball; Angelique So, girls' tennis; Jennifer Brown, girls' track; Liem Ung, badminton; Wendy Su, badminton; Sueh-Han Liew, girls' cross country; Marek Margas, boys' tennis; Dulce Ramirez, girls' volleyball; Eric Fontes, boys' cross country; Melvin Rabena, boys' basketball; Justin Stichter, football; Aldo Ramirez, baseball; Cartina Olivo, field hockey; Gustavo Perez, golf; Mike Moulds, water polo; and Sheila Hess, softball.

Also presented at the evening's event were special scholar athlete awards given to varsity spring sports team members with either a 4.0 or the highest grade point average on their team.

Winning scholar athlete awards were: Amy Andrejewski, Jannis Jocius, Kristen Kam, Liew and Jackie Nguyen, girls' track; Louie So and Eric Fontes, boys' track; Richard Hurst, boys' volleyball; Brendan Bartholomew, golf; Robin Glass and Jocelyn Yang, softball; Kathy Briggs, girls' swimming; Pon, Jun-Mayer Alcid, Adam Westgate, Roman Vulfovich and Moulds, boys' swimming; Linda Doan, Seiji Nemoto, Tarang Saini, Monique So, Wendy Su, Sarah Tran, Natalie Woo and Luan Ngo, badminton; Brittany Liu, softball; Chris Hoff and Darren Lang, baseball; and Allan Ho, Margas, Phuc Nguyen, Daniel Schuet and Mike Vu, boys' tennis.

Athletes also claimed special spring awards in these categories: boys' varsity volleyball--co-most valuable players Ben Skinner and Alan Ho; boys' junior varsity volleyball--most valuable player Steve Koo, most outstanding player C.J. Jordan; frosh-soph baseball-- most valuable player Brandon Klein, most improved player Robert Schmidt; varsity baseball--most valuable player Jose Carrillo, most improved player Ramirez, most inspirational player Hoff; varsity softball--co-most valuable players Hess and Jocelyn Yang; junior varsity softball--most improved player Tasha Correia; boys' varsity tennis--most valuable player Margas, most improved player Daniel Schuet; boys' junior varsity tennis--most valuable player Manol Manolov, most improved player Tony Yang, outstanding singles player Jimmy Doan, outstanding doubles players Tony Chaung and Jeff Hallam; boys' swimming--most inspirational Moulds, most improved Jun-Mayer Alcid; girls' swimming--most valuable Melissa Westgate, most inspirational Patty Vitale; boys' varsity track--athlete's award Daniel Wong, Cip Sena Award Marsigan; girls' varsity track--athlete's award Brown, Cip Sena Award Kam; boys' frosh-soph track--athlete's award Eric Fontes, Cip Sena Award Martin Gonzales; golf--most valuable player Jesse Cytron.

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This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, June 10, 1998.
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