BASHOF Nomination Criteria
YES -Nominees must be “on the field performers” (i.e. coach, manager, player).

YES Nominees must have been born or raised in one of the nine Bay Area counties and achieved their national or international fame in the Bay Area or elsewhere - or

YES -Came to the Bay Area in their “formative years” (i.e. as a youth, high school or college student, or as a rookie with a professional team) and achieved fame in the Bay Area and

YES -Nominees must be one who has made an extraordinary impact on the sports history of the Bay Area and gained national fame, or

YES -Nominees must be a member of the nominees national hall of fame of the nominees sport – or

Nominees must be selected and participated in a minimum of three all star games of their nation wide league – or

Nominees must be selected on the all star team (first team) of their sport by a national media sports organization – or

Nominees must be named most valuable player of their nation wide league a minimum of one year – or

YES-Nominees must be a member of the U.S. Olympic Games Team and have won a minimum of one individual gold medal – or

YES -Nominees who have won an individual national championship in their respective sport a minimum of one time – or

YES -Nominees must be a national or world record holder in their respective sport one time – or

YES -NOTE: Nominees over age 60 are not subject to this eligibility rule and may be nominated whether or not they are retired from their sport.

Ballot Nomination Process
Nominees must meet the criteria outlined above. In submitting your nominations, please include a 50 word description of each nominees accomplishments. Send nominations to:
Ballot Nominations Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame
One California Street, Suite 2630
San Francisco, CA 94111

VICTORIA “VICKI” MANALO DRAVES (USA)
1969 Honor Diver

FOR THE RECORD: OLYMPIC GAMES: 1948 gold (springboard; platform); NATIONAL DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS: 1946, 1947, 1948 gold (platform); 1948 gold (springboard); First woman in Olympic to win both springboard and platform diving crowns in same games.
Victoria Manalo Draves was the first woman in Olympic history to win both springboard and platform diving crowns in the same games. She was the only swimmer or diver to gold medal in two individual events at the 1948 London Olympiad. Her rise to No. 1 in the world was meteoric but far from easy. Vickie was a twin born in San Francisco to an English mother and Filipino father. When Vickie was 16, she and her sisters would take the trolley car to Fleishhacker Pool to swim and admire the divers. Admiration was mutual as one of the boy divers introduced her to Phil Patterson, coach of then national champion Helen Crlenkovich. Vickie learned rapidly under Phil, but her biggest hurdle was not on the diving board. Her diving club on Nob Hill required that she drop her father’s Filipino name and take her mother’s maiden name, Taylor. Finances were another problem and a year later, she joined Charlie Sava’s famed Crystal Plunge team where she worked with Jimmy McHugh. McHugh left coaching and on Sava’s advice, Vickie crossed the bay to dive with Lyle Draves and his star pupil Zoe Ann Olsen at the Athens Club in Oakland.
With a third diver, Glorida Wooden, Draves took his girls to the 1945 Indoor Nationals in Chicago and they placed 1, 2, 3 in the 3 meter springboard.
Wartime duties, another Nob Hill meet argument over Vickie’s Filipino parentage, and Draves returning to Southern California left Vickie once more without a coach. There followed some commuting to Los Angeles, a second and a third at the Outdoor Nationals, and then, on the death of her father, Vicki retired and returned to San Francisco and to her old job as a secretary in the Army Port Surgeon’s office.
When the war ended, Vickie finally moved to Southern California for good. She married her coach and her winning ways began immediately with the national Tower Diving Championship (10 meter platform), in 1946, 1947 and 1948. In 1948, she won her first springboard national title. She made the team but was not first at the Olympic Trials in either springboard or platform. She was the first woman of oriental ancestry to win an Olympic gold medal in diving. The first man was Korean-American Sammy Lee, who, like Vickie, stands 5’1” when he stretches. The incredible performances of these two Asian-Americans helped heal the scars of an Olympic-canceling World War, and personified the Olympic revival of individual competition regardless of race, creed or national origin.
http://www.ishof.org/honorees/69/69vdraves.html

ishof@ishof.org

1948 gold (platform) Medalist 1948 gold (springboard) Medalist

Diving in 1948 Summer Olympic Games (London) First women in Olympic history to win both 3 meter Springboard and 10 meter Platform Diving

Posing with her teammates from the USA Olympic Team

Lt.SammyLee,Armydoctor who won the men’shigh dive in the Olympics,congratulates VickiDraves,first American winner of two titles

this is all great and all….cept this is a Golden State forum….

Why not go to various news websites sfgate, contracostatimes, san jose mercury, etc and contact their sports writers? I think that’d be more effective than posting on a Golden State Warriors forum…

I have contacted those writers but there is a total of 60 media sports editor writers. You guys have more suggestion of who are these media outlets.

How do they determine who gets a vote and who doesn’t?

I got you covered .. shoot me an email at pbhattacharya@hoopsworld.com and I’ll tell you what you need to do. Hope you have plenty of minutes on that cell phone :)

I just finished emailing more than 40 emails but it really count if the Sports Editors know about it because they hold the vote.

Thank you Pree. Sorry it was on a warriors forum but with it pertaining to the bay area this forum was a source that would open some doors to people who cared specifically about Bay Area Sports History.
Its hard emailing and not knowing if the email was read at least in forum people are replying.

Sorry to the people that hated the post and thanks a lot to the people who just read it.
Nobody really know the first women to win two gold medalist was a Bay Area Native and was also doing this during racism and in the midst of WWII

Nominee Selection Process

BASHOF maintains a list of individuals eligible for induction into the Hall of Fame. Each July, the list is updated and sent to a panel of 60 Media Selectors (veteran sportswriters & broadcasters) from around the Bay Area who vote for contemporary and veteran athletes. The votes are tallied in August and the winners are notified and announced to the press in late September/early October. The class of athletes is then inducted into the Hall of Fame the following April at the Enshrinement Banquet.

Thank you Pree. Sorry it was on a warriors forum but with it pertaining to the bay area. This forums was a source that would open some doors to people who cared specifically about Bay Area Sports History.
Its hard emailing and not knowing if the email was read at least in forum people are replying

First Filipino-European Descent to get an Olympic Medal and the first woman in Olympic history for the U.S in receiving a Gold Medal(2 Total) and Lt Lee was the first of Asian descent.

+1

And I too apologize for those of us who don’t appreciate anything significant beyond the Warriors. I always thought of this site as being a site for the Warriors and the Bay Area so her story sure warrants a fanpost

I’m not sure what I can do but I did email out 20 copies of this to KNBR and Tim K. Hopefully they can start something.

we should ban those members who are disrespectful and ignorant….they seem to be increasing in this warriors community

For viewing this. Sooner or later we will be advocating for some stars from the bay to be inducted-Mullin? Pierce? Kidd?

I ‘ll keep you guys posted by this week. I am in contact with the Bay Area Hall of Fame on the process. Thanks for the support and of course if it doesn’t interest you don’t post. There is obviously a lot of different Fan Post that you could have viewed but you chose to view this one knowing it doesn’t pertain to your needs. At least your really interested in posting more comments and learning what I had to say. Thanks guys.

Waiting for pree’s email???

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me and my roomate used to use the same account(not sure why) and he had posted some silly and disrepctful comments here, on the username norcalsoldier. I thought they were kinda out of line and repetetive, so I had contacted SB Nation and asked if they can delete the account and I made a new one. He usually is a decent guy, not sure why he made those posts, so I apologize(for him) if they offended anyone.

Anyway, great post and great read, its amazing how many great athletes are from the Bay Area that main stream sports fans dont know about. I wrote an email to Ann Killion(of the San Jose Mercury), and linked this page hoping she can possibly write something on this. Thanks for sharing this knowlegde about this and educating us about this topic. Let us know if they’re is any progress or if they’re is anything else we can do to help.

this doesnt interest me that much but…....if you want some serious pub on this topic, try writing TFC, Balitang America in particular. They have a wide audience which effectively would target Filipino Americans who would be potentially passionate about this issue. This would be a great story for Balitang America with the olympics going on …

Even the new show Adobo Nation should be all over this one.

Hope that helps

I will keep you guys posted on the results of her induction and for people that don’t care, please disregard this post.
thanks gsom

I was worried for a moment but Pree came to the assistance. Give this guy a big kudos he has helped me in a tremendous way by spreading the news. I appreciate pree and GSOM.

Words can’t explain my thanks.

thanks pree

on the ballot……thanks Pree