The Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame 2025 Induction Banquet tickets are on sale. The banquet will be held on Wednesday, September 24th, at the Edward D. Hansen Conference Center at Angel of the Winds Arena. The banquet begins with a Social Hour and Silent Auction at 4:30 pm, with the dinner and awards program starting at 6:00 pm. Memorabilia Display Cases and Wall Mural will be available to view from 4:30–6:00 pm.
Dinner tickets are $125 per person or $1,100 for a table (ten people). Tickets may be purchased online: https://auctria.events/2025SportsHallofFameBanquet.
The Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame 2025 Induction Class consists of the following individuals and one team. The 2025 individual inductees are: Brent Lillibridge, baseball, Jackson High School; Ed Hansen, bowling, Everett High School; Rick Fenney, football, Snohomish High School; Sarah Schireman Linse, track & Field, Archbishop Murphy High School; Fred Shull, baseball coach – Edmonds-Woodway High School; Laurel Tindall, gymnastics coach – Seattle Pacific University; and Pepe Fernandez, soccer arena owner (sports contributor) – Everett. The team being inducted is the 2003 Snohomish High School Girls Cross Country.
Roy Firestone, former ESPN Sportscaster and seven-time Emmy Award Winner is the guest speaker for the banquet. Roy Firestone has performed in more than two thousand venues over two decades. He was featured in the Academy Award-winning film, Jerry Maguire, where he played himself. Firestone is a seven-time Emmy Award-winning and seven-time cable ACE Award-winning host, interviewer, narrator, writer, and producer. He was the original host of ESPN’s legendary Up Close, Up Close Classic, and Up Close Primetime.
New for 2025 is a Sports Hall of Fame logo. The logo provides an opportunity to create more awareness of the Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame including the banquet and the Sports Hall of Fame displays at the Angel Of The Winds Arena.
The 2024-25 Everett’s Greatest Hits Radio & the Law Office of Russell & Hill High School Boy & Girl Student Athlete of the Year will be honored at the banquet. The 2025 Collegiate Male & Female Athlete of the Year will be honored as well. The names of the high school and collegiate athletes will be announced in the coming weeks.
Thank you to our 2025 Sports Hall of Fame Sponsors: American Distributing Inc., Everett’s KRKO 1380, Coastal Community Bank, Bickford Motors, Inc, Everett Downtown Storage, Sultan High School Turks Broadcasting Club, and OVG & Edward D. Hansen Conference Center.
The Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame exists to recognize and honor athletes, coaches, teams and/or sports contributors, who have distinguished themselves in their sport or vocation on the state, national and/or international stage and thus have brought state, national and/or international acclaim to themselves and Snohomish County.
Author: Lynnwood Times Staff
