Lauren Allison

Lauren Allison is undoubtedly one of the best offensive soccer players in program history and is the 2nd women’s soccer player to be inducted into the EvCC Hall of Fame. She enters with the 2024 class as the all time single season leading goal scorer with 22 goals and also has the most career goals with 35 compiled in the 2014 and 2015 seasons.  

Lauren was an adept passer as well, ranking 5th all time at EvCC in single season assists, and finished with 11 in her career which ranks 4th all time at EvCC.  Altogether with goals and assists, Lauren has the highest career point total at EvCC with 81.  

Lauren was recruited locally out of Stanwood High School where she was named 2nd team all Wesco in her freshman year, and was first team all wesco her sophomore and junior year while also receiving league MVP honors in her junior season.  She was a member of head coach Geoff Kittle’s 5th recruiting class, and as a freshman in 2014 played a key role in the team’s fourth north region title and the program’s first ever NWAC Championship.  Lauren led the team in goals scored that season with 13 and was named the MVP of the NWAC tournament along with receiving all north region honors.    

Lauren returned for her sophomore season in 2015, and was 2nd in the NWAC in goals scored with 22 and was also named the north region MVP.  The Trojans again made the NWAC playoffs and advanced to the NWAC quarterfinals after defeating Tacoma 4-0, a game in which Lauren had 2 goals. That year she was named the EvCC Female Trojan athlete of the year and was also the Snohomish County Collegiate Female athlete of the year.  

After Everett, Lauren went on to play at NCAA DII school St. Martins where she scored a career 7 goals in two seasons for the Saints, and was also named to the All GNAC Academic team in 2017.  Although injuries limited her playing time while at SMU, Lauren is grateful for the opportunity to finish out her college playing career.  She earned her degree in Psychology and is currently working on her masters degree in applied behavior analysis. Lauren resides in Mukilteo, WA and works as a registered behavioral technician for children that have developmental disabilities. 

Mace Brady

In 1965, Mace Brady joined Everett Junior College’s gymnastic team for Hall of Fame head coach George Gyorgyfalvy and competed with fellow Hall of Famer Dick Foxal. That year of competition the team went 6-1, with its only loss to UW’s freshman team. Competing at the Northwest Championships, featuring mostly four-year university programs, Mace Brady led the team with 254 points. Prior to attending EJC, Mace competed on the Bothell High School gymnastic team.  During his senior year the team won the state championship. He was an all-around competitor and placed first on both vaulting and trampoline. 

From 1966 to 1969, he attended Eastern Washington State College where he earned varsity letters for the next three years. During this time, the team ranked in the top ten in the

National NAIA Championships each year. Eastern’s highest ranking was 3rd place. Brady placed 5th in vaulting and 9th on floor exercise in 1967. He was ranked 4th in vaulting in 1968.  In 1969, he was a finalist (top 6) in rings, vaulting, floor exercise, parallel bars and trampoline. His highest ranking in all-around was 8th nationally.

In 1970, while assistant coach at Eastern, he competed in the PNW Open where he won the all-around, receiving 3 gold medals, 1 silver and 1 bronze.

After completing his active duty assignment in the army and returning home, he was asked by Dr. Hughes, head gymnastic coach at the University of Washington, to be his assistant coach. He spent two years in that position before becoming a head coach at the high school level. He was the boy’s gymnastic coach for three years at Bellevue High School and then at Mercer Island for another seven years. Since the UW gymnastic team was dropped from NCAA status to club status he’s been active with the University of Washington Men’s Gymnastics Foundation (WMGF).

Brady retired from both teaching—Mercer Island for 32 years—and from the army reserves after serving for 30 years (concurrently). He retired from the army at the rank of colonel. He is a graduate of the US Army War College and holds a master’s degree in education from Seattle University. After retiring, he had two books published: Supreme Truth, a terrorism novel based on actual events and Caught in the Rush, that brings to life his grandfather’s adventure in the Klondike goldrush.

Dick Foxal

Dick Foxal was a gymnast at Everett Junior College in 1965 and 1966 under legendary Coach George Gyorgyfalvy. Foxal was a key member of the team when Coach Gyorgyfalvy started up the program as a club in 1965 and then had its first full season of competition in 1966 where Foxal was the team captain. In that first 1965 season, Foxal was the lone representative from EJC to compete at the Northwest Championships in Pullman, WA and proceeded to score more total points than the entirety of two other competing schools. Then in his final season at EJC Foxal finished at the Northwest Championships with 124 points, second only to fellow Everett Community College teammate and  hall of fame inductee Mace Brady.

Foxal went on to compete at Central Washington where he participated in the NAIA National Championships and then eventually got his master’s degree in physical education.  He began coaching in high school and found much success being named the State of Oregon High School Coach of the year in 1975 as well as the National High School Coach of the year in that same year.  

Dick then began coaching collegiately at Central Washington before becoming the head coach at the University of Washington in 1977 where he coached for three seasons while also serving as a coach for the men’s junior national elite team for four years. He eventually took the head coaching job at Montana State in 1984 and was subsequently selected as the Mountain West Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1985.  

Foxal arrived in Corvalis in 1987 where he would spend the next 21 years of his 38 year coaching career.  At Oregon State University he helped guide the women’s team to 13 NCAA Championships and 10 top 10 finishes.  He primarily worked with athletes on the uneven bars and coached 11 athletes to  All-American honors.  With this success Foxal was named West Regional Assistant Coach of the Year honors five times including his final season of coaching in 2008 before his retirement.

Dick impacted the lives of many students during his coaching career.  At Oregon State alone, there were four individual title winners and 59 that earned All American Honors.  Beyond athletic accomplishments, his athletes appreciated the daily life lessons, humor, and genuine compassion for their growth.

Inderbir Gill

Inderbir Gill played for the Trojans in the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons and averaged 16.7 points, 7.5 assists, 6 rebounds and 4 steals his sophomore season.  In that season he led the entire NWAACC in steals and assists.  Gill came to Everett CC from University High School in Spokane, where he was twice named an Honorable Mention for the All Greater Spokane League.  He chose EvCC for head Coach Larry Walker’s fast paced style of play that his teams were known for.  

After EvCC Inderbir’s basketball career took off when he transferred to the University of Northern British Columbia.  In 2010 Gill had an MVP year, where his team won the Canadian National Championship and he was named the tournament MVP as well as the Canadian Collegiate Male Athlete of the year.  In 2011 Gill was named both the conference and National Player of the year.  In three seasons at UNBC Inderbir averaged 18.5 points per game, 4.8 rebounds, and 5.9 assists.   In total, Gill recorded 1001 career points, which ranks him 4th all time at UNBC and his 5.9 assist per game average ranks number one. In 2021 Gill was the first inductee into the UNBC Athletics Wall of Honour as one of the most decorated athletes of all time at the school.  

Inderbir then got the opportunity to play professionally overseas primarily in his native country of India and found success in the emerging 3 on 3 leagues.  He began in 2016 ranked as the #1 player in the USA for the FIBA 3X3 which is a professional world tour league.  He first played in Japan for three years and then later in India. Inderbir is still playing 3x3 currently for the Toronto Patriots, and in his professional career has won three championships and three times has been named MVP. 

George Gyorgyfalvy

George Gyorgyfalvy coached gymnastics and taught physical education classes at Everett Junior College from 1961-1967.  It was in his fourth year at EJC that he started the gymnastics program that began to compete across the pacific northwest against other college programs.  Over the next three years, George coached a number of standout athletes who performed well in the big competitions.  Among these athletes were EvCC Hall of Fame inductees Mace Brady and Dick Foxal, who went on to have his own illustrious 38 year coaching career.  

In 1967, George left EJC for an opportunity at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, where for 21 years he taught such courses as soccer, gymnastics, weight lifting, conditioning, skiing, and kayaking as well as coached many years for the competitive gymnastics and soccer programs. George retired from Lane CC in 1988 and eventually relocated to Bend Oregon living out his golden years as an avid skier, kayaker, and hiker. He was even a recurring traveler to the Austrian Alps and his homeland of Hungary.

Prior to his life in the United States, George served in the Hungarian Army in World War II and saw action in the closing months of the war against invading Russian forces.  After the war, he earned a college degree from a physical education academy in Budapest before an unfortunate set of circumstances led to being imprisoned in a grueling communist-run political prisoner Gulag labor camp for three years in the early 1950s. After making his last of many death-defying crossings of the Iron Curtain by the mid-1950s, he immigrated to the United States in 1957, to reunite with his parents and brother.  Soon after his arrival in the US, he enrolled at the University of Colorado and earned his Masters degree in Physical Education in 1960.  It was then Everett Junior College that provided George with his first full time permanent teaching position, which was a major milestone in his long teaching career. 

On March 6th, 2011 George passed away at the age of 86 in his Bend, OR home.  He lived an extraordinary life and undoubtedly had a monumental impact on the lives of his students.

Obituary

Geoff Kittle

Geoff Kittle took over the women’s soccer program in 2009 and proceeded to coach for seven seasons.  In that time he became the all time winningest coach in program history with a total of 88 wins, and added the programs first region title in just his second season at the helm.  Kittle’s teams qualified for the NWAC playoffs in six out of his seven seasons which included 4 north region titles and the programs first ever NWAC Championship in 2014 (Hall of Fame Team).  From 2011 until Kittle’s final season in  2015, his team’s won at least one playoff game in each of those seasons, and in 2014 Geoff was named the NWAC coach of the year.  

To date, Geoff’s teams in 2014 and 2015 are the most offensively prolific in program history, scoring 68 goals in 2015, and an EvCC team goal record of 70 goals in 2014 which is an average of over 3 goals per game.  In his EvCC career of coaching 140 games the Trojans scored 323 goals for an average of 2.3 goals per game.

Geoff coached over 100 athletes in seven seasons, many of which earned opportunities to play at the four year level, including Claire Nelson who went to NCAA Division I Cal State University Bakersfield, EvCC Hall of Fame Inductees Brianna Ellis and Lauren Allison, and a number of other athletes at various levels. 

Geoff has been a teacher in the Marysville school district since 2003 and has coached on and off at the high school level.  He and his family reside in Marysville and he enjoys attending his daughter Ashlynn’s soccer games and son Mason’s band concerts.  He also enjoys visiting national parks in the Winnebago and just recently began a hobby of running 5k races with his wife, Shannon. 

2014 Women's Soccer Team 

The 2014 NWAC Champion Trojan Women’s soccer team was a product of success after four straight previous seasons of advancing to the NWAC playoffs. The 20 win season is not only the most in program history, it's also one of only 14 teams in the history of the NWAC to eclipse the 20 win mark in a single season.

The team started out the season 5-0 and conceded only one goal before losing the first game of the season to Highline, the eventual west region co-champions.  EvCC would only lose one more game the rest of the season and it was to Trinity Lutheran College, who competed at the NAIA level.   

The Trojans rolled through the west region crossover portion of the schedule at 6-1 and outscored opponents 32-2.  Everett looked even better through north region play, going undefeated and posting 6 shutouts, winning the north region title for the 4th time in program history.   

In the playoffs, EvCC still had plenty of offensive firepower, defeating Bellevue 3-0 and East Region Champions, Spokane 3-2.  They would meet #1 ranked and Co-West Region Champion Peninsula in the NWAC Championship game at Starfire Stadium.  After a scoreless 80 minutes of action, Alma Mana’o got the game's only goal, capturing the program’s first ever NWAC Championship. 

Geoff Kittle was named the north region and NWAC coach of the year while Victoria Lentz, Kelsie Neill, Emily Nelson, Mikayla Whitton, and Lauren Allison were named to the NWAC All Star Team.  Lauren Allison was also named the NWAC Tournament MVP.   

In addition to the most wins in EvCC program history the 2014 team also scored the most goals with 70.  Ten goals allowed ranks as the best defensive team in EvCC history as does the 15 shutouts.