Larry Fitzgerald, Pedro Gomez in 2022 Arizona Sports Hall of Fame class

Arizona Cardinals legend Larry Fitzgerald and late journalist Pedro Gomez are among the many 2022 class members coming into the Arizona Sports activities Corridor of Fame, the Arizona Sports activities and Leisure Fee introduced Wednesday.

They’re joined by former Phoenix Mercury star and WNBA coach Jennifer Gillom, Northern Arizona ladies’s basketball participant Peggy Kennedy, Seton Catholic Preparatory highschool basketball coach Karen Self and Valley sports activities philanthropist Michael Ok. Kennedy.

The 2022 class will likely be inducted in a ceremony on Nov. 1 at Chateau Luxe, a Phoenix occasion venue.

Tickets go on sale Sept. 1 and will be bought at AZSportsHOF.com.

“The 2022 class embodies the soul of Arizona Sports activities,” ASEC govt director Nikki Balich-Cammarata mentioned in a launch. “Whether or not they’re famend domestically, nationally or globally, every of those honorees has earned enshrinement for shaping Arizona’s sports activities historical past.”

To be eligible, candidates wanted to fulfill considered one of three standards: Be native to Arizona, be instantly acknowledged as an Arizonan or have made at the least two vital contributions to the sports activities neighborhood within the state.

Larry Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald is already a shoo-in for the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame with a 17-year profession that included 11 Professional Bowl picks and one All-Professional choice.

His 17,492 profession receiving yards, all with Arizona, rank second all-time within the NFL behind Jerry Rice (22,895). The Cardinals icon additionally ranks second all-time behind Rice (1,549) with 1,432 receptions and is sixth in receiving touchdowns (121).

Fitzgerald has moreover made his influence within the Valley from charitable and enterprise views together with his self-named basis. He’s additionally a minority proprietor within the Phoenix Suns.

Pedro Gomez

Primarily a baseball journalist, Gomez was a newspaper author who landed in Arizona with a cease as a columnist for the Arizona Republic. He joined ESPN in 2003 and have become an MLB broadcaster who additionally helped with protection elsewhere, together with the Cardinals’ out-of-the-box drafting of quarterback Kyler Murray in 2019.

Gomez served as a trustee for the state’s sports activities corridor of fame from 2015 till his loss of life in 2021.

Peggy Kennedy

Kennedy set scoring information for the NAU Lumberjacks for a profession (1,082) and single season (411). She left as the varsity chief by common in factors (19.0 per recreation) and rebounds (11.3).

Kennedy was drafted into the Ladies’s Skilled Basketball League in 1979 by the Chicago Hustle and for her half within the first ladies’s professional basketball league was a part of an induction into the Ladies’s Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2018.

Jennifer Gillom

A Mercury participant from 1997-2002, Gillom earned an All-Star spot in 1999 and completed her profession in Phoenix with averages of 13.4 factors and 4.5 rebounds per evening. Gillom was added to the Mercury Ring of Honor in 2006 and labored within the WNBA as an assistant and head coach for seven seasons. She is presently head coach at Xavier School Prep in Phoenix.

Karen Self

The Seton Catholic Prep coach and Arizona State product gained 12 state titles and 5 runner-up finishes over her 30 years in cost on the faculty. She holds a 775-155 document as coach, good for third in whole wins in state historical past.

Self coached the McDonald’s All-American recreation in 2020 and in 2008 gained the Phoenix Suns’ Spirit of Cotton Award, the primary feminine coach to take action.

Michael Kennedy

He was the Tremendous Bowl XLII host committee chairman, an govt committee member for Tremendous Bowl XLIX and has served as chairman for the Phoenix Open as a member of the Thunderbirds nonprofit group.

Kennedy has been president of the Arizona Diamondbacks Basis since its inception in 1997.

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