SAN ANTONIO – From Olympic medals to championship teams and UTSA football milestones, the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame celebrated its newest class during a gala Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The Class of 2026 was officially inducted during the black-tie tribute in the Stars at Night Ballroom. Honorees included Larry Coker, UTSA\u2019s first head football coach; two-time Olympic swimming medalist James Feigen; former UTSA quarterback Frank Harris; and Tameka Roberts-Nu\u00f1ez, an eight-time UTSA All-American in track and field.<\/p>\n
The 1971 Robert E. Lee High School football team, which won the Texas 4A state championship, was also inducted.<\/p>\n
The event also recognized Eddie Salas as the San Antonio Express-News Sportsman of the Year and Leighann Goode as Sportswoman of the Year.<\/p>\n
Salas returned as Harlan High School\u2019s football coach in August 2025 after undergoing treatment for Stage 4 large B-cell lymphoma of the bone. He learned he was cancer-free in July 2025 and later led Harlan to a 10-2 season and its second district championship in three years.<\/p>\n
Goode recently wrapped up her University of Texas softball career with back-to-back national championships. The O\u2019Connor High School graduate helped lead the Panthers to a UIL Class 6A state title in 2022 before playing four seasons for the Longhorns.<\/p>\n
Proceeds from the gala benefit San Antonio Sports youth and community programs, which provide sports and fitness opportunities for thousands of people each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – From Olympic medals to championship teams and UTSA football milestones, the San Antonio Sports Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-421129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}