Five inducted into San Ramon Valley High’s Athletic Hall of Fame

The San Ramon Valley High School Alumni Association inducted four former students and one coach into its Athletic Hall of Fame during a dinner event last Thursday.

The Hall of Fame honors exemplary alumni and staff members for their athletic achievements at SRVHS, college or in their professional lives. Nominees need to have graduated from SRVHS at least 10 years before the award year.

Last week’s dinner marked the ninth induction since the program was inaugurated in 2000. In their induction, the 2017 selected five athletes join the ranks of over 40 SRVHS alums and staff members to have also received the honor.

Peter Worstell

Worstell founded the lacrosse program at SRVHS back in 2002, and is credited with transforming SRVHS lacrosse into a nationally renowned program. He also helped to launch lacrosse programs at other local high schools, and was one of the founders of the Diablo Scorpions youth lacrosse programs.

Worstell has been honored by other organizations as well. He has been named the East Bay Athletic League’s “Coach of the Year” multiple times and recently received the U.S. Lacrosse Todd French “Man of the Year” award.

It’s not his first Hall of Fame either — Worstell has been inducted into the Halls of Fame for Garden City High School Athletics, Long Island lacrosse, University of Maryland lacrosse and Northern California lacrosse.

Randy Pereira

Pereira, class of ’67, was a dual athlete, part of both the football and track teams at SRVHS.

He was the first freshman to play junior varsity football at San Ramon Valley — league rules prohibited freshmen from playing varsity at the time — and as running back, he set a JV rushing record of 903 yards that year.

Pereira lettered all four years in track, and was undefeated in dual meets in the shot put and discus throughout his high school career. His shot put and discus records stood for almost 40 years.

He was awarded a football scholarship to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he played tailback.

Now Pereira is a finance professional and investment banker, living in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife of 36 years.

Kelly (Crow) Fuca

Fuca, class of ’04, has been playing volleyball since she was 11 years old.

During her freshman year, Fuca played on Monte Vista’s varsity team as a starting outside hitter, and, after transferring to SRVHS, as a varsity starter there for the next three years. She was selected first for the All-EBAL team all four years, and was the league’s MVP in 2002.

As a senior, Fuca was named “Player of the Year” by the North Coast Section, the Contra Costa Times and the Tri-Valley Herald; she also was named “Fall Athlete of the Year” by Sports Focus and the SRV Female Athlete of the Year.

She played Division 1 volleyball at San Jose State University and played professionally in Vordingborg, Denmark after college.

Now, Fuca works as a realtor and lives in San Ramon with her husband, who is also an SRVHS alum.

Robby Smith

Smith, class of ’05, has made wrestling his life.

He lettered at SRVHS and was named EBAL champion for all four years of his high school career, and was NCS champion and placed at the state meet for three of those years.

After attending Northern Michigan University, Smith was invited to the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs. He’s been competing at 130 kg since 2012, previously at 96 kg.

Smith was a member of the 2016 U.S. Olympic team, has placed fifth in the world championships twice, has served as a member of the U.S. world team three times, is a two-time U.S. Open champion and took home bronze in the Pan-American games.

He is currently still living in Colorado Springs, preparing for the 2020 Olympics.

Dave Bottom

Bottom, class of ’81, was a swimmer and water polo player.

At San Ramon Valley, he swam on the varsity team for four years and played varsity water polo for three. He served as team captain his senior year, and earned five individual NCS titles, was named all-league four times, set six individual SRVHS swimming records and was named an All-American in six individual swimming events.

He also received an All-American title in water polo after the 1980 season.

Bottom attended Stanford University on a full swimming scholarship, where he was team captain for two years and All-American for four. He also set three American swimming records and was an NCAA finalist for all four years.

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