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By PAUL DELANEY
Staff Reporter 

Medical Lake's newest athletic Hall of Fame class to be honored

 

Last updated 9/21/2017 at 11:20am



The following are the newest members of the Medical Lake High School Athletic Hall of Fame and will be honored at halftime of the Sept. 22 Cardinal football game against Newport, and officially inducted during a dinner on Saturday, Sept. 23. For additional information on the event contact Medical Lake athletics director, Justin Blayne at (509) 565-3291 or via email at blayne@mlsd.org.

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Jim Bauman

Class of 1967

Jim Bauman was active in athletics all four years of high school, participating in football, basketball and baseball, as well as track.

Bauman set numerous MLHS football records and earned awards for Most Valuable and Most Inspirational. As a senior, he was voted the school’s Athlete of the Year.

Following graduation he attended Eastern Washington State College on a four-year Army scholarship and graduated in 1971 with a bachelors in pre-physical therapy and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.


Bauman earned his masters of education degree in 1975, but at the “ripe old age” of 41, in 1989, he was accepted into the doctoral program at Washington State University.

While concurrently studying and working in the WSU athletic department, he received his Ph.D in psychology in 1995 and began a 27-year career, as a licensed psychologist in the field of sport psychology. He worked with numerous athletes and teams in the Olympics, Major League Baseball, the NFL and NHL, among others.

Jim and his wife Diana were married in 1986 and live in Mount Vernon, Wash.

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Roxanna Macheel (Ralphs)

Class of 1970

Roxanna Macheel was no stranger to winning. She won her first tennis trophy at age nine using a bowed racket with several strings missing.


Macheel’s active involvement throughout high school included lettering in tennis at MLHS. Macheel was known for her Cardinal Pride, serving as a cheerleader for three years

Going on to play for Washington State University for four years, Macheel became the only girl in the history of MLHS to play at the Division 1 college level. She also competed in volleyball and field hockey at WSU.

After graduating from WSU she taught physical education and music.

At the time of her induction into the MLHS Athletic Hall of Fame Macheel had been married to her husband David for over 30 years, raising four children.

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Joseph Prescott

Class of 1974

Like so many kids whose dad or mom was military, Joseph Prescott was among them and saw much of the country and the world prior to arriving at Medical Lake.

A multi-sport athlete in high school, he played football and basketball every year, earning varsity letters three times in both.

During high school and afterwards, Joe worked a myriad of jobs, everything from sacking groceries at the base commissary to building concrete cruise missile bunkers at Fairchild Air Force Base.

In 1975 Joe began work at Lakeland Village. After working several years at Lakeland, Prescott became a surveillance specialist for Spokane County Juvenile Court, assisting with troubled youth. This experience helped him for his job with Spokane School District 81 at North Central High School where he was the vice principals’ liaison.

Prescott continues his 30-plus years of public service to Spokane County and the State of Washington and is employed at Eastern State Hospital. He is the proud father of a daughter and a grandson.

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Jessica Young (Stewart) Class of 1999

Jessica Young truly fits the definition of a student-athlete. She not only was an outstanding athlete in high school but also a very committed, hard working scholar. As a Renaissance student (accelerated learning) and member of the National Honor Society, Young graduated from MLHS in 1999 with a 3.9 GPA.

Young was a four year varsity letter winner in track and field. She broke three school records as a junior and also played basketball and volleyball.

Graduating with honors from MLHS in 1999, Young received many academic and community service scholarships that helped her attend Eastern Washington University.

Young would become a registered nurse and soon was working in labor and delivery and later became an oncology and end of life/palliative RN.

Young and her husband Tyson have been married 10 years and the parents of two daughters.

Paul Delaney can be reached at pdelaney@cheneyfreepress.com.

 

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