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Taft College will remember legendary football coach Al Baldock by putting his name on the campus gymnasium.
The school’s board of trustees unanimously voted Thursday to add Baldock’s name to the Cougar Sports Center, which includes a gymnasium and softball field.
It will now be known as the Al Baldock Cougar Sports Center.
Baldock, one of the winningest coaches in junior college football history, died in September of 2009.
Impetus for renaming the Sports Center came from the Academic Senate, a faculty group that serves as a watchdog for the instructional program. The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution that was forwarded to the administration and then to the board.
It reads:
WHEREAS, athletics has long been an integral part of student life at Taft College and represents one of the most successful links between the campus and the community it serves, and
WHEREAS, no single sport more galvanized the community than did the football program, which began in 1927 with a 56-0 over county rival Bakersfield and ended in 1994, and
WHEREAS, no single individual left a more indelible impact on the football program than Al Baldock, who coached the Cougars from 1976 until the program’s demise, and
WHEREAS, Al Baldock guided a program that produced some of the finest community college teams in the nation with 137 victories, just 26 losses and five ties, and
WHEREAS, Cougar teams during the Baldock era won 15 conference championships, six state championships, six Potato Bowl crowns, and two national championships, earning him six Coach of the Year honors, and
WHEREAS, Al Baldock has been inducted into the Kern County Sports Hall of Fame, the California Community College Football Coaches Hall of Fame, was named a “Legend” at College of the Sequoias, where he also guided a championship program, and
WHEREAS, under Al Baldock’s guidance many of his players earned scholarships to four-year universities across the land with an impressive number playing at the professional level, and
WHEREAS, Al Baldock also had a profound impact on the personal lives of his players, as evidenced by remembrances from many former players and coaching colleagues following his death two years ago.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Cougar Sports Center be re-named the Al Baldock Cougar Sports Center in recognition of his contributions to the college and the community.
Taft College will remember legendary football coach Al Baldock by putting his name on the campus gymnasium.
The school’s board of trustees unanimously voted Thursday to add Baldock’s name to the Cougar Sports Center, which includes a gymnasium and softball field.
It will now be known as the Al Baldock Cougar Sports Center.
Baldock, one of the winningest coaches in junior college football history, died in September of 2009.
Impetus for renaming the Sports Center came from the Academic Senate, a faculty group that serves as a watchdog for the instructional program. The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution that was forwarded to the administration and then to the board.
It reads:
WHEREAS, athletics has long been an integral part of student life at Taft College and represents one of the most successful links between the campus and the community it serves, and
WHEREAS, no single sport more galvanized the community than did the football program, which began in 1927 with a 56-0 over county rival Bakersfield and ended in 1994, and
WHEREAS, no single individual left a more indelible impact on the football program than Al Baldock, who coached the Cougars from 1976 until the program’s demise, and
WHEREAS, Al Baldock guided a program that produced some of the finest community college teams in the nation with 137 victories, just 26 losses and five ties, and
WHEREAS, Cougar teams during the Baldock era won 15 conference championships, six state championships, six Potato Bowl crowns, and two national championships, earning him six Coach of the Year honors, and
WHEREAS, Al Baldock has been inducted into the Kern County Sports Hall of Fame, the California Community College Football Coaches Hall of Fame, was named a “Legend” at College of the Sequoias, where he also guided a championship program, and
WHEREAS, under Al Baldock’s guidance many of his players earned scholarships to four-year universities across the land with an impressive number playing at the professional level, and
WHEREAS, Al Baldock also had a profound impact on the personal lives of his players, as evidenced by remembrances from many former players and coaching colleagues following his death two years ago.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Cougar Sports Center be re-named the Al Baldock Cougar Sports Center in recognition of his contributions to the college and the community.
