ARLINGTON – Former Arlington High School standout basketball star Kayla Burt is among those who will be inducted into the Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame this year.
The 2001 grad was a Street & Smith’s & USA Today All America Honorable Mention as a senior. She averaged 27.4 points a game and was the first female in the county to surpass 2,000 career points. She made The Associated Press state first team, and was the Herald Player of the Year as a junior and co-player of the year as a senior.
She was a scholarship player at the University of Washington and as a sophomore was in the starting lineup. But she suffered cardiac arrest, finishing her season and causing her to redshirt her junior year. She began playing again the next year and was awarded The V-Foundation Comeback Award and the 2004 Herald Woman of the Year in Sports. Also, she was team co-captain and Pac-10 All-Academic Honorable Mention. But she retire her senior year because of her heart condition.
Others to be honored include:
•Randy Courture, Ultimate Fighting Championships, Lynnwood.
•Bob Cummins, rowing, Everett.
•Karen Thorndike, sailing.
•Jack Westland, golf.
•Keith Kingsbury, coach, Edmonds.
•1955 Darrington High School boys basketball team.
•1981 Meadowdale High School girls soccer team.
•Bill O’Mara, radio sports broadcaster.
The banquet also will feature the 2016 Herald Man and Woman of the Year in Sports. The winners are Jacob Eason, quarterback of Lake Stevens heading to Georgia, and Mikayla Pivec of Lynnwood, who is heading to Oregon State to play basketball.
For the third year the event will honor the collegiate male and female athlete of the year: Dejon Devroe, track, Trinity Lutheran, and Emily Bland, track, Everett Community College.
The inductees were nominated by the public and the 30-member Hall of Fame Committee. They will be honored at the Sports Hall of Fame Banquet Sept. 28 at XFINITY Arena. For tickets go to http://tinyurl/HallofFameTickets.