Coach of the Year: Justin Labagh, San Francisco
MVP: Delon Wright, San Francisco

All- Conference:
Raysean Hairston, San Francisco
Mikhael McKinney, Ohlone
Ivan Dorsey, San Francisco
Dylan Heath, Las Positas
Brett McConnell, Foothill
Damarius Jones, Chabot
Lauri Toivonen, Ohlone
Jarred Jourdan, Las Positas
Kyle Wong, Skyline
Thomas Cooper, San Francisco
David Fullinwiley, Foothill
Chris Read, Ohlone

Honorable Mention:
Jameal York, Chabot
James Osorio, Canada
Damarr Eagles, Las Positas
Myron Respress, San Francisco

The CCCMBCA will induct four individuals into its Hall of Fame during the state tournament in Sacramento. Here is a look at the four individuals who will be honored.

Bennett Davison, West Valley College

Davison was a two-time Junior College All-American during his playing days at West Valley College, where he was named Basketball Weekly’s National Junior College Player of the Year. He went on to play two seasons at the University of Arizona, winning a NCAA Championship in 1996-97. His sophomore season at West Valley, Davison averaged 19 points per game, 15 rebounds and 5 blocks. As a freshman he scored 13 points per game and averaged 12 rebounds a contest. He helped the Vikings to a 66-6 record in his two seasons and helped West Valley to two state championship games under Hall of Fame coach Bob Burton.

His junior season at Arizona, he was selected to the Pac-10 All Newcomer Team after finishing as the Wildcats’ fourth-leading scorer. In the NCAA championship game, he scored 9 points and grabbed 7 rebounds in the win over Kentucky. His senior year, he finished second on his team in rebounding and fifth in scoring. He set a single-game record that season with 9 steals vs. Stanford as the Wildcats won the Pac-10 Conference title.

Davison went on to play 14 years overseas, having played all over Europe. Currently Davison is the assistant basketball coach at Rocklin High School in Rocklin, CA.

Mike Legarza, Menlo College (player), Canada College (coach)

Mike Legarza has a long successful history as a player, coach, and mentor in California Community College basketball. From 1978 to 1980, Legarza played for the legendary Bud Presley at Menlo Junior College. While at Menlo, Legarza was an all-state player, lead the state in free throw percentage shooting at 91%, and was second in the state in field goal percentage at 66%. Coach Presley called Legarza, “the greatest shooter and toughest kid he ever coached.”

From 1989 to 2000, Legarza was the head basketball coach at Cañada College where over a 10-year period his Cañada teams won 259 games while losing only 59. His teams won multiple conference championships, made 10 straight post-season appearances, and one Final Four. During his tenure, Legarza was awarded both the Coast Conference Coach of the Year and Northern California Coach of the Year awards.

Perhaps his greatest contribution can be measured in the success of his former players and coaches. While at Cañada, 59 out of 60 of his players graduated, he coached 10 all state players, including Justin Love, who was the state player of the year in 1998. Twelve of his former players and assistant coaches have gone on to successful basketball careers, including Chris Grant, General Manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kenny Ammann, National Championship coach at Concordia University, Lamont Quattlebaum, two-time California State Championship Coach, Jacob Nielsen, Danish National Basketball coach, and Shanan Rosenberg, State Final Eight basketball coach at Foothill College. Many of his other players took the lessons they learned from Coach Legarza off the court and became successful professionals in their communities.

After coaching at Cañada College, Legarza has continued to make contributions to coaching basketball and community through his Legarza Basketball Camp, which is the largest day basketball camp in the country, where over 100,000 players having attended over the years. The Legarza Basketball Camp provides coaching and leadership training for current junior college players who he hopes will become the next generation of coaches. Legarza also wrote coaching curriculum for the Positive Coaching Alliance at Stanford University. These coaching techniques have been taught in all 50 states to over three million youth athletes.

Richard Walsh, Ohlone College

In 1967, Richard Walsh made a decision that today leads him to the CCCMBCA Hall of Fame. After just five years of coaching at the high school level, Coach Walsh decided he wanted more, a bigger coaching challenge. He found it at Ohlone College.

The position was extremely challenging because Ohlone was opened with a temporary campus and had no gymnasium. In fact they had no gymnasium for the nine years. On top of it, recruiting rules at that time limited coaches to recruit from a certain high school district. Ohlone had seven high schools to recruit from. The Renegades really struggled for the first two years of competition, winning only 6 games. By the third year, Coach Walsh had the Renegades playing for the conference title. He coached Ohlone for the next 13 years, 1968 -1981 competing in the Coast Conference.

In 1981 Dick took a sabbatical leave and traveled to New Zealand to become the Director of Basketball for the country. His duties included preparing the National Men’s and Women’s teams for the World Games. He also traveled the country and put on clinics for the coaches of club, high school, and university teams. With his assistance the first high school league was developed with division play on the North Island as well as on the South Island and culminating with a National Championship Game. He also helped with the development of the New Zealand Professional Basketball League.

He returned to Ohlone in 1982. He regained the head coaching position in 1994. After a very successful conference finish and a season record of 20 wins and 10 losses, they represented the North in the 1985 State Tournament, which was held in Fresno and ultimately won by El Camino College. He was selected by his peers in the Coast Conference as Co-Coach of the Year for the 1992-93 seasons.

He retired from the Head Coaching position in 1995, but continued to teach at Ohlone. He took full retirement in the year 2000 and received Professor Emeritus Award from the Ohlone College Governing Board. Coach Walsh now lives in Palm Springs with his wife, Josie of 34 years.

Pete Williams, Mt. San Antonio

Pete Williams entered Mt. San Antonio College in the fall of 1981 as a 6’5” freshman forward and played for California Community College Hall of Fame Coach Gene Victor.
During his first season at MSAC, Williams helped lead the Mounties to the South Coast Conference Championship by averaging 14.7 points and 8.5 rebounds. He also led the SCC in field goal percentage (70.9) and earned first team All South Coast Conference honors. Mt. San Antonio finished the season with a 21-8 overall mark. As a 6’6” sophomore, Williams led the SCC in scoring (18ppg) and rebounding (11rpg) and was tabbed the conferences’ player of the year. He capped his season by being named first team all-state. MSAC ended the season 18-11, and a second place finish in the SCC. In the spring of 1983, Williams signed to play basketball at the University of Arizona for Coach Lute Olson.

Joining Olson’s first Wildcat team, Williams solidified the UA front line and set the tone for the Olson era with his selfless style of play, strong fundamentals and relentless work around the basket. Although only 6’7”, Williams played bigger than his size as there were few loose balls around the rim that didn’t seem to end in his clutches. Williams had an immediate impact, leading the Pac-10 in rebounding (9.9rpg) and leading the Wildcats in scoring (14.5ppg).

Williams’ senior season, he helped lead Arizona to a 21-10 record, a milestone as it was the Wildcats first 20 win season in eight years. Arizona also earned the first of their 25 consecutive NCAA Tournaments bids. Williams averaged 12.5 points and 8.5 rebounds. In his two years in Tucson, Williams led the Wildcats in blocked shots, rebounds, and field goal percentage, while being named team MVP, and first team All Pac-10 each season. He went on to become a fourth round draft pick of the Denver Nuggets in 1985 and enjoyed a two year NBA and eleven year European playing career,

After retiring in 1999, Williams began his post basketball career by spending eleven years working with at risk youths as a Probation Corrections Officer for the San Bernardino County Probation Department.

On March 9, 2005 Williams was inducted into the Pacific 10 Conference Basketball Hall of Honor.

State Poll
1. San Francisco
2. Citrus
3. Yuba
4. Mt. San Antonio
5. Santa Rosa
6. Mt. San Jacinto
7. Diablo Valley
8. San Bernardino Valley
9. Fresno
10. Antelope Valley
11. Ohlone
12. LA Southwest
13. Las Positas
14. Saddleback
15. Cabrillo
16. Chaffey
17. Foothill
18. Cuesta
19. Sierra
20. Irvine Valley

Northern California
1. San Francisco
2. Yuba
3. Santa Rosa
4. Diablo Valley
5. Fresno
6. Ohlone
7. Las Positas
8. Cabrillo
9. Foothill
10. Sierra
11. Cosumnes River
12. Modesto
13. Chabot
14. Feather River
15. Sacramento City

Southern California
1. Citrus
2. Mt. San Antonio
3. Mt. San Jacinto
4. San Bernardino Valley
5. Antelope Valley
6. LA Southwest
7. Saddleback
8. Chaffey
9. Cuesta
10. Irvine Valley
11. San Diego City
12. Ventura
13. LA Valley
14. LA Harbor
15. El Camino

MVP
Sama Taku, Santa Rosa

COACH OF THE YEAR
Craig McMillan Santa Rosa

Kevin Aronis, Santa Rosa
Ronnie Baker, Diablo Valley
Jamie Ball. Sierra
Zach Bartley, Sacramento City
Tony Gill, Cosumnes River
Brian Goins, Diablo Valley
Austin Keaton, Modesto
Markus Moore, Sierra
Jordan Salley, Santa Rosa
James Tillman, Cosumnes River