May 2020

Former BC standout Grant Harris named to the Big South All-Academic Team

Grant Harris

Campbell baseball senior Grant Harris has been named to the 2020 Big South Conference All-Academic Team. Harris joined the Campbell baseball program in 2018 as a transfer from Bellevue College. Through two full years as a Camel, Harris has maintained a near perfect 4.0 GPA as he pursues his degree in sport management from Campbell.


Clarkston Bantam Jalena Henry signs with Bellevue College

Jalena Henry

Clarkston basketball player, Jalena Henry, has signed to play ball at the next level. Henry signed with Bellevue College on the west side of the state. The 5-11 Bantam post was a force in her senior season. She averaged a team high six rebounds per game and scored a little over seven points per contest.


Kirk Kilgour

Basketball - Inaugural Inductee 2019 Kirk Kilgour was a basketball athlete in 1967-68. He played on two different championship teams for Coach Ernie Woods. One at Mira Costa High School in California and the other as an integral part of Bellevue's first basketball team in 1967-68. According to Coach Woods, he was by far the ...more about Kirk Kilgour


Leon Edmonds

Basketball - Inaugural Inductee 2019 Leon Edmonds was a basketball athlete in 1967-68. He was MVP of the 1968 WAACC Basketball tournament as he led the Helmsmen to the title in the school's first ever season. Leon was the team captain and leading rebounder. He still holds the best single game free throw percentage making ...more about Leon Edmonds


Rhonda Bell

Rhonda Bell was a track athlete in 1980-81. She was posthumously inducted into the BC Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019 as one of the inaugural inductees.


Ernie Woods

Basketball - Inaugural Inductee 2019 Ernie Woods led his Bellevue teams to 541 wins, two NW championships, 15 league titles, 7 regional championships, and 29 tournament titles in his 30 years at Bellevue. He has received basketball's "Coach of the Year" honor seven times. In 1968, the Bellevue Tip-Off Tournament became the first pre-season tournament ...more about Ernie Woods


Ray Washburn

Baseball - Inaugural Inductee 2019 Ray Washburn came to Bellevue Community College in 1971 following a 10-year career in the major leagues, where he won two World Series rings while pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals, and pitched in a third World Series with the Cincinati Reds. Washburn also made history on Sept. 18, 1968 ...more about Ray Washburn


Orly Waller

Track - Inaugural Inductee 2019 Orly Waller was a cross country and track athlete in 1979-81. He was a two-time cross country individual champion in 1979 and 1980, one of only four men to win back-to-back titles. He led his Bellevue teams to conference crowns during those two seasons. He helped the Helmsmen track team ...more about Orly Waller


Thornton Perry

Coached Track, Basketball, Cross Country - Inaugural Inductee 2019 Thornton Perry has done it all at Bellevue College, beginnng in 1971 and continuing on today. "TP," as he is known on campus, started out working in the library, as well as being the head basketball scorekeeper and timekeeper. He also was the bus driver for ...more about Thornton Perry


Jerry Maris

Track - Inaugural Inductee 2019 Jerry Maris was a cross country and track athlete in 1979-81. He helped lead Bellevue cross country teams to NWAACC titles in 1979 and 1980, the first of six straight championships for the Helmsmen. He placed fourth in 1979 and third in 1980 at the conference cross country meet. He ...more about Jerry Maris