Robert L "Bob" Yniguez was another Hall of Famer that was an Arizona lifer.  Bob graduated from Superior High School, played basketball at Mesa Community College, and finished his education at Arizona State University.  Coach Yniguez began his career at Tolleson and then finished a forty year career at Tempe Marcos DeNiza and McClintock High Schools.  Bob taught social studies and was a certified counselor.  Bob was the Arizona Republic's Coach of the Year in 1980 when his Lady Padres of Marcos de Niza won the 5A State Championship.  His girls were also the State Runner-Up a year later.  Yn

Nancy Ellis was the sixth woman coach in the state of Arizona to be selected to the Hall of Fame.  Nancy was a member of the first Arizona State University Softball team in 1967.  After playing 4 sports and graduating at ASU, Ellis went to California to coach at Orange High School.  Her girls at Orange won the 1970 California softball title.   Shortly after that and still early in her career, Ellis managed to get the Mesa School District to add softball to the AIA girls athletic schedule.  Her first team at Mesa won the first Arizona softball title ever held.  In 1981, Coach Ellis moved ove

Ed Nymeyer coached basketball and taught PE at Flowing Wells High School winning state titles in 1963 and 1968.  His 1969 team was the state runner-up.  Coach Nymeyer came back later in his career and led the Flowing Wells girls to a state runner-up in 1985.  Coach Nymeyer caused quite a stir with the officials when he was creative with uniform design.  He once used Roman numerals on the jerseys and the rulebook was changed to say "Arabic" numerals.  The officials had trouble making X's and V's with their fingers to the score table.  Nymeyer also came out with poncho warmups (FW is the Caba