Class of '05 Laurel Anderson Tindall Gymnastics Lorna Griffin Track and Field Bente Moe Track, Cross Country Bruce Raney Soccer Sergio Soriano Soccer C. Hoyt Watson (Posthumous) Past SPU President

Class of '04 Ken Covell Soccer Roy Duncan Track & Field Les Habegger Basketball Debbie Halle Jackson Gymnastics Bob Thompson Tennis

Class of '03 Loren Anderson Basketball/Baseball Doris Brown Heritage Track & Field Cross Country Dr. Ken Foreman Track & Field Coach Howard Heppner Basketball Steve Gough Track & Field Ben Moring Track & Field

Induction Ceremony Details

SEATTLE – A third and final charter class, in many ways symbolic of Seattle Pacific University’s emergence as a national power in gymnastics, soccer and track & field during the Seventies and Eighties, will be inducted into Falcon Legends Hall of Fame in early February during homecoming week.

The Class of 2005 includes gymnastics program icon Laurel Anderson Tindall (1974-75); Olympic team thrower Lorna Griffin (1977-78); five-time NCAA champion distance runner Bente Moe; and the heroic scorer and goalkeeper from the Falcons’ first national championship soccer team, Bruce Raney (1978-81) and Sergio Soriano (1978-81). In addition, the late C. Hoyt Watson, the university president from 1926-59 who envisioned the unique role athletics would play at Seattle Pacific, will receive the second Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously.

Ceremonies will be held Feb. 4 during an 11:45 a.m. luncheon in the Queen Anne Room of Gwinn Commons. Honorees will also to be publicly acknowledged prior to the homecoming basketball game the next day in Brougham Pavilion. Luncheon reservations are $25. Former KOMO TV sports director Bruce King will return as master of ceremonies and Dr. Philip Eaton, SPU president, will bestow inductees with their awards.

The Class of 2005 will bring the Falcon Legends Hall of Fame membership to 16. The inaugural class featured Loren Anderson (basketball/baseball), Doris Brown Heritage (track & field/cross country), Dr. Ken Foreman (track & field coach), Howard Heppner (basketball), Steve Gough (track & field) and Ben Moring (track & field). Last year they were joined by Les Habegger (basketball coach/athletic director), Ken Covell (soccer), Roy Duncan (track & field), Debbie Halle Jackson (gymnastics) and Bob Thompson (tennis).

Laurel Anderson Tindall, a resident of Brier, Wa., transferred to Seattle Pacific to join the inaugural gymnastics team in 1974 and helped to instantly transform it into a power at the Division I level. The Falcons placed fifth in the AIAW, and Anderson Tindall won a national individual title on vault the following season. In just two years, she was a six-time All-American, including four times as a senior. Upon graduation, Anderson Tindall became the program’s head coach, and has served in that capacity for 29 years now, guiding SPU to three national team championships.

Lorna Griffin is the most accomplished weight thrower in the track & field program’s existence. She set a discus record (180 feet, 3 inches) in 1978 which has never been threatened, and finished second among Div. I athletes in that event in ‘77 and third in the shot put as a senior. SPU was seventh and 11th in the AIAW those seasons. Griffin went on to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team both in 1980 (in both events) and in 1984 (discus). She lives in Huntington Beach, Ca.

Bente Moe had already represented Norway at the 1984 Summer Games when she arrived on campus the following year. She promptly began collecting NCAA Division II titles in cross country (1985), the 5000 meters (‘86, ‘88) and the 10,000 (‘87, ‘89). In all, she finished among the top three nationally in those events 11 times and ran in the Olympic marathon again in 1988. Moe is the school’s only three-time athlete of the year and was both an Academic All-American and NCAA Postgraduate scholar. She will make the trip from her home in Skien, Norway.

Raney and Sergio Soriano were bookends to the magical 1978 NCAA championship team. Soriano, who lives in Arlington, Wa., earned four all-conference awards before making all-region and the Senior Bowl after his final season. He set virtually every goalkeeping record during his career and still holds marks for saves in a season and career. Soriano’s most noteworthy accomplishment came in the final match of his first year. He made eight saves to hold overwhelming favorite Alabama A&M scoreless in the national title game.

At the other end of the field that day in Miami was Bruce Raney, flying to meet the ball head-on and steer it into the net in the fourth overtime period. It was a goal which gave SPU a 1-0 victory and ushered in an era when the Falcons were regularly among the top soccer programs of any size, anywhere. Raney, also a four-time all-conference pick and all-region as a senior, remains the school’s top career scorer, and set a season record of 22 goals as senior. He resides in Lynnwood, Wa.

the late C. Hoyt Watson was considered to be the single-most influential person in Free Methodist higher education where intercollegiate athletics were concerned. Despite controversy, he introduced varsity athletics to the campus in 1944, and later encouraged a full intercollegiate competition and membership in both the NAIA and NCAA. He died in 1969.