The first soccer player in school history will be among the individual inductees in the 17th class of inductees into the Eastern Washington University Athletics Hall of Fame taking place Sept. 30, 2017, in Cheney, Wash.
 
Goalkeeper Tiera Como-Irby was a two-time Big Sky Conference Defensive Most Valuable Player in 2005 and 2006 for the Eagles, who won the soccer program's first-ever Big Sky Conference title in 2004 with her in the goal. The graduate of Spokane's East Valley High School will be joined by basketball players Ronn McMahon and Fay Zwarych-Shaw in this year's class, as well as previously-announced football players Tony Brooks and Jackie Kellogg.
 
That fivesome will join the 1992 Football team in morning ceremonies taking place in conjunction with EWU's home football game versus Sacramento State on Sept. 30. Lt. William "Bink" Wall will be recognized posthumously as this year's recipient of the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame Service and Contribution Award.
 
McMahon was one of the top point guards in NCAA Division I as a senior in the 1989-90 season when he helped Eastern to an 18-11 record and runner-up finishes in the Big Sky Conference regular season and tournament. His school records of 130 steals and 4.48 average in 1990, as well as his 3.52 career average, all still rank among the top eight performances in NCAA history.
 
Zwarych-Shaw was a high-scoring basketball player from Vernon, B.C., setting a school record with 509 points (18.9 per game) in 1983. She earned first team All-Big Sky Conference honors in 1984 when she averaged 17.0 (475 total), and finished her career from 1981-84 with 1,303 points.
 
Brooks and Kellogg were both highly-honored as Eagles on different sides of the ball, helping the 1992 squad win the first of what is now nine Big Sky Conference football championships. Eastern advanced to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs and finished 7-4 under head coach Dick Zornes.
 
Kellogg was twice a first team All-Big Sky Conference selection and finished his career from 1990-93 with a school-record of 41 passes broken up that still stands. His 17 interceptions and 222 tackles were also among the top four in school history at the time. As a professional, Kellogg played in four different leagues during his nearly decade-long career, including a highly-successful eight seasons from 1995-2002 in the Canadian Football League.
 
Brooks became the first of EWU's big-play receivers that have become synonymous with the Eastern Football program in recent years. He was an All-American and finished his career from 1990-93 with all four school receiving records. His 167 receptions were a record for 10 years and now rank 10th (entering the 2017 season), and 3,013 yards, 26 touchdowns and 18.0 average per catch were also school records at the time. On single season lists, his 60 catches in just 10 games in 1993 was a school record that has now been surpassed by 22 other performances in school history.
 
The induction breakfast and ceremony will start at approximately 8 a.m. on Sept. 30. The public is invited to attend and the cost is $20 per person. Guests must register via a link that will be available later in July at http://goeags.com/HOF. Inductees will also be honored at halftime of EWU's football game against Sacramento State later that day (kickoff is TBA).
 
Established in 1996, this year's class of individual inductees in the Hall of Fame will bring the total to 83. The '92 squad will be the 15th team to be admitted. With the addition of Wall, there have also been 18 individuals and one organization honored as recipients of the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame Service and Contribution Award. All of the inductees and induction classes may be viewed at: http://goeags.com/HOF.
 
Below are bios of all of this year's individual inductees. A story on the 1992 football team may be found at: http://goeags.com/hof.aspx?hof=104&path=&kiosk.
 
 
 

Ronn McMahon (Athlete/Basketball)

In helping Eastern to an 18-11 record in the 1989-90 season, Ronn McMahon led NCAA Division I in steals with an average of 4.48 per game (130 total). Through the 2016-17 season, he still ranks among the all-time leaders in NCAA Division I in single season steals (eighth, sixth at the time with 130 in 1990) and season average per game (fifth, third at the time with a 4.48 average in 1990). He's also currently fourth (second at the time) in Division I in career average per game with an average of 3.52 (225 total in 64 games). He owns the school record with 225 career steals and the top two single season performances (130 in 1989-90 and 80 in 1988-89). He also has 12 of the school's top 26 steals performances (through 2016-17), including a school-record nine against Portland on Dec. 15, 1989. He also finished his career with 431 assists to rank second in school history, including 207 as a junior and 191 as a senior. He was a first team All-Big Sky Conference and All-Academic selection in the 1989-90 season when he led Eastern to runner-up finishes in the Big Sky in the regular season and post-season tournament. Eastern missed a NCAA Tournament berth when Idaho made a three-pointer at the buzzer in the Big Sky title game. Eastern's 18-11 record in 1989-90 was the school's best percentage-wise (.621) in EWU's first 27 seasons (through 2013-14) as a member of the Big Sky Conference. The school's 11-5 conference mark represented Eastern's best league record in the first 12 years as a member of the Big Sky. After receiving his EWU degree in 1989, he played from 1991-92 for the Yakima Sun Kings in the Continental Basketball Association, then played on the Canadian National Team from 1992-94. He was Canada's starting point guard, and played on the 1992 squad which played in the Tournament of the Americas against the original United States "Dream Team" and the likes of John Stockton, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley. Canada fell to the U.S. 105-61 and finished fifth, but in 1994 finished seventh at the FIBA World Championships in Toronto. He also played professionally in Mexico, for Marathon Oil and signed a variety of short-term contracts. McMahon returned to the area in 2008 and teamed with former teammates Dan Dieffenbach, John Garrison and Greg Olson to win their bracket at Hoopfest (street basketball tournament in downtown Spokane). McMahon is the President and CEO of the Greater Wichita YMCA, beginning his duties on Jan. 6, 2016. He previously lived in Tacoma, Wash., where he served as vice president of YMCA operations in Pierce and Kitsap counties. He led efforts to grow both participation and revenue by more than 300 percent, and helped make possible a four-fold increase in community support and free and assisted services. He became one of the nation's top-ranked squash players, and at one time was ranked 12th nationally among all professionals. As of April 2014 he was ranked third in the Seattle area and 120th nationally. McMahon and his wife, Lisa (Dabalos), met while they were at EWU. They have a daughter, Rachel, who lives in Tacoma, and a son, Sam, who concluded his sophomore season of basketball at Carroll College in Montana in 2016-17.
 

Tiera Como-Irby (Athlete/Soccer)

As both a junior in 2005 and senior in 2006, Tiera Como-Irby was selected as Big Sky Conference Defensive Player of the Year. She left Eastern having earned seven Big Sky Player of the Week honors and a pair of first team All-Big Sky accolades (2005 and 2006). In 2004, when the soccer program won its first-ever Big Sky Conference regular season title, she earned second team All-Big Sky honors. Como set school records for career shutouts (12), total saves (420), saves per game (6.46) and goals against average (1.44), which all still stand entering the 2017 season. She also set records for saves percentage (.816) and wins (16), which were later broken. She played in 65 total games in a four-year career that included two appearances in the Big Sky Conference Tournament. Entering 2017, she owns three of the top seven single season saves performances in school history with 152 in 2006 (second), 121 in 2005 (fifth) and 92 in 2004 (seventh), plus had 55 as a freshman in 2003 to rank 18th. She had identical saves percentages of .829 in 2004 and 2005 to rank second all-time at Eastern, and her five shutouts in 2005 and four in 2005 rank third and fourth, respectively. On single game lists, her 16 saves versus Weber State on Oct. 19, 2006, equal the fourth-most in school history, and she had two other performances of at least 13. Como was also honored academically on the All-West Region third team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America as a senior in 2006. She was named to the Big Sky All-Academic team four-straight seasons. She earned the team's Golden Eagle Award as a senior as EWU's most complete player on and off the field. The 2002 graduate of East Valley High School out of Spokane, Wash., majored in mathematics education and had a 3.46 grade point average. She received her bachelor's degree from EWU in 2007 and now resides in Spokane.
 

Fay Zwarych-Shaw (Athlete/Basketball)

Zwarych-Shaw was a first team All-Big Sky Conference selection (then known as the Mountain West Athletic Conference) in 1984, joining future Eastern Hall of Famers Lisa Comstock (first team) and Brenda Souther (second team) on that squad. Zwarych also earned second team honors in 1983. She helped Eastern finish 21-7 overall and 12-2 in the league as a senior to finish as the Big Sky runner-up in both the regular season and tournament under Hall of Fame coach Bill Smithpeters. Zwarych finished her career from 1981-84 with 1,303 points, which was second in school history at the time. She also ranked in the top 10 in school history for career free throw percentage (.704), She owned the top two scoring performances in school history with 509 points in 1983 and 475 the following season, but those marks would be surpassed by Souther in 1987. She averaged 18.9 points as a junior and 17.0 as a senior, and her 217 field goals made and 473 attempts in 1983 were also both school records at the time. The 1984 EWU graduate went on to play two seasons in Australia, playing for Parramatta and Bankstown club teams. The year prior to her arrival in Australia, Eastern Hall of Famer Maria Loos played for Parramatta. In a tournament in Sydney, Zwarych played against Comstock and her club team from Germany. Originally from Vernon, B.C., Zwarych now resides in Riverside, Calif., where she has lived since 1987. Running and hiking are among her hobbies now, and she is a season ticket holder for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks NHL hockey team. She follows in the footsteps of a large group of former women's basketball players inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame, including Loos (1999), Comstock (2003), Souther (1998), Janelle Ruen (2014) and Kathleen Nygaard (2015), as well as Smithpeters (2010) and the 1986-87 NCAA Tournament team (2013).
 

Tony Brooks (Athlete/Football)

The first of EWU's big-play receivers that have become synonymous with the Eastern Football program in recent years, Tony Brooks was an All-American and finished his career from 1990-93 with all four school receiving records. His 167 receptions were a record for 10 years and now rank 10th (entering the 2017 season); his 3,013 yards were a record for 12 seasons and are now sixth all-time; his 26 touchdowns were also a record for 12 years and now rank eighth; and his 18.0 average per catch remained as a record for four seasons and currently ranks fourth. On single season lists, his 60 catches in just 10 games in 1993 was a school record that has now been surpassed by 22 other performances in school history. He had 1,024 yards in 1993, representing just the second performance in school history with 1,000 or more receiving yards (there have now been 19 entering the 2017 season). He played on Eastern's 1992 squad that shared the Big Sky Conference title with Idaho and advanced to the FCS Playoffs. Brooks was a third team NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (then known as I-AA) All-American in 1993, and earned first team All-Big Sky honors as both a junior and senior. Brooks was also selected to the Big Sky All-Academic team in each of his four seasons as an Eagle. In his final two years, the Eagles were 14-7, as EWU finished 5-6, 5-6, 7-4 and 7-3 in his four seasons. He signed a contract with Winnipeg of the CFL in 1994 before going into the insurance business. Brooks lettered for Eastern from 1990-93 and is from Tacoma, Wash., and Mount Tahoma High School. Eastern selected him to its "100 for 100" All-Time Team in 2008. In 1999, Dick Zornes selected him to the "Z" Team consisting of 36 players that he felt were the best players and made the largest contributions toward the 158 games Eastern won in Zornes' 26-year association with Eagle Football. Brooks is now a State Farm Insurance agent, and lives in his hometown of Tacoma. He plays an agent in a popular 2011 television commercial for State Farm. In it, he is credited for buying a couple a live falcon because he saved the family so much on insurance. In January 2016 he was announced as the winner of the Tom Oswald Memorial Award, which was created in 2007 in the memory of former Cheney High School coach Tom Oswald. Oswald succumbed to cancer on Aug. 4, 2006, and recipients are selected by the Eastern coaching staff for following Oswald's creed of "Doing the Right Thing" for youth. Tony and his wife, Leonor, graduated from Eastern in 1994. They have two children, Allie and Lisi, who both attend Lincoln High School in Tacoma where Brooks is an assistant football coach.
 

Jackie Kellogg (Athlete/Football)

Kellogg was a first-team All-Big Sky selection as both a junior and senior, including 1992 when Eastern shared the Big Sky title with Idaho. He finished his career from 1990-93 with a school-record of 41 passes broken up that still stands, as well as 17 interceptions, which are still the second-most in school history (entering the 2017 season). He also had 222 tackles, which at the time was fourth in school history and currently ranks 27th (entering 2017). Kellogg helped lead the Eagles to the 1992 Big Sky Conference championship and a berth in the NCAA Football Championship Division Playoffs (then known as I-AA). In his final two years, the Eagles were 14-7, as EWU finished 5-6, 5-6, 7-4 and 7-3 in his four seasons. Kellogg was also selected to the Big Sky All-Academic team in each of his four seasons as an Eagle. He was selected by the Eastern Athletic Department to the "100 for 100" All-Time Football Team, which was honored on Sept. 27, 2008, to commemorate Eastern's 100th year of football. In 1999, Dick Zornes selected Kellogg to the "Z" Team consisting of 36 players that he felt were the best players and made the largest contributions toward the 158 games Eastern won in Zornes' 26-year association with Eagle Football. As a professional, Kellogg played in four different leagues during his nearly decade-long career, including a highly-successful eight seasons from 1995-2002 in the CFL. He played 6 1/2 years with the Calgary Stampeders and the last 1 1/2 years of his career with the Edmonton Eskimos. He helped the Stampeders win the 1998 Grey Cup and played in 14 playoff games, including four Grey Cups (1995, 1998, 1999 and 2002). In his career (including playoffs), he played in 117 games and had 301 tackles, 18 pass knock downs, eight sacks and 28 interceptions for 507 yards in returns (18.1 average) with six touchdowns. He equaled his career-high with 55 tackles in 20 games in 2002, and he was selected to the West Division All-CFL team in 1998 and 1999. In 1998, he ranked second in the CFL with eight interceptions for 72 yards and a touchdown. He also had 55 tackles in a total of 20 games as Calgary beat Hamilton 26-24 to win the CFL championship. In 1999, Calgary lost 32-21 to Hamilton in the Grey Cup as Kellogg earned CFL Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in the playoff semifinals (the third POW award in his career). In a total of 20 games, he had six interceptions for 90 yards in returns and 49 total tackles. His other career highlights include the 2000 season, when he had 31 tackles, five interceptions and two sacks. Two of the interceptions were returned for touchdowns in 2000 – including a 110-yard return – and twice he was honored as CFL Defensive Player of the Week. In 1997, he joined the team in week 17 and played in just three total games. But he was selected as the CFL defensive player of the week in week 18 when he had four tackles, three pass knock downs and a blocked punt. He joined the Stampeders late in 1995 after being released by San Francisco in the NFL in the team's final cuts just prior to the start of the 1995 regular season. He had the same fate with the 49ers as a rookie in 1994. In 1995 and 1997, he played for the Frankfurt Galaxy of the World League. In 1997, he finished the year with 34 tackles, 10 passes defensed, two interceptions and an 18.9 kickoff return average. In 1995, he intercepted three passes in the team's first game and finished second in the league with a total of seven. He also had 50 tackles, 14 passes defensed and two blocked kicks. In addition, after leading Calgary to the CFL playoffs in 2000, he joined Memphis of the ill-fated XFL in 2001. He had one interception for the Maniax. Jackie resides in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife, Jodi, and their two children – Trey, 19, and Jazmyn, 16.  He continues to stay involved with football coaching at Foothills Composite High.