Hall of Fame
Alicia Beecher is listed as a two-sport athlete—basketball and track and field. A more accurate description would be that she is an eight or 10 sport athlete. She participated in nearly every event in track and field except distance running. Certainly, she picks up seven as a heptathlete.
“Alicia brought quality and unselfish play to the floor ever time she was called upon,,” said Bill Olin, former women’s coach.
Beecher improved every year in basketball. She finished her senior year averaging over six ppg and four rpg, which allowed her to accumulate 554 points and 396 rebounds in her career. The teams she played with included a district champion and also a co-champion team.
Beecher overcame a crunched training schedule and was still one of the finest track and field athletes in the history of our school. For two years, she nearly won the district championship by herself. In ’91, she was first in the javelin, second in the 100m hurdles and triple jump, third in the long jump, fifth in the high jump and 200m, sixth in the shot put and the 100m. In the 1991 GSAC meet she also threw the javelin for a first place finish, was third in the 100m hurdles, fourth in the 200m and fifth in the long jump.
In 1992, she followed that with being first again in the heptathlon, hurdles and javelin, second as a member of the 4x100m and 4x400m team relay, second in the 200m and fourth in the 100m. At the GSAC meet in 1992 she was a member of the 4x100m team that took first. She took first in the 100m hurdles, first in the triple jump, second in the javelin, fourth in the heptathlon and sixth in the long jump. She was a member of the 4x400m team that ran a 3:51 in the 1992 NAIA National Meet. She is a two-time All-American in the heptathlon finishing fifth in ’91 and sixth in ’92. Beecher went on to a teaching career in the San Diego area.
The award for Outstanding Achievement by an Athlete was presented to Beecher by Bob Brower.
