Two coaches and three athletes comprise Yakima Valley College's 2025 Hall of Fame class, which will be inducted during the school's annual athletic awards ceremony on May 29 at Sherar Gym. Coaches Al Rogers and Bob Garretson Jr. will join athletes Anthony Johnson, Barbie Shuel and Cheryl Rhea in the new class, YVC's fourth since the first induction in 1984.
 
As head coach of the volleyball program for 28 years, Rogers had the longest continuous run of any coach in YVC history and was named East Region coach of the year six times and amassed 614 career wins. YVC made 15 appearances in the NWAC tournament and collected five trophies, including a runner-up finish in 1989 when the team set the still-standing school record of 47 wins in a season.
 
Garretson took over YVC's baseball program in 1988 and recorded 351 wins over 17 seasons, retiring in 2004. He coached three NWAC MVPs and produced four trophies in the conference tournament, highlighted by a runner-up finish in 1993. After coaching the Yakima Beetles to American Legion World Series titles in 1975 and 1979, Garretson joined Bill Faller's staff in 1983 and was an assistant for five seasons
 
Johnson earned tournament MVP honors while powering YVC to the 2008 NWAC men's basketball championship with consecutive games of 25, 33, 38 and 29 points.  Johnson was also the East Region MVP and the school's male athlete of the year as a sophomore. Johnson's 1,349 career points ranks second in school history, and he still owns YVC records for free throws in a game, season and career.
 
Shuel, a Selah graduate, was instrumental in the winningest volleyball and basketball teams in YVC history and was named the school's female athlete of the year as a sophomore in 1991. In her two seasons in each program, YVC was 87-24 in volleyball with two top-three NWAC trophies and 64-3 in basketball with back-to-back NWAC championships.  As a sophomore, Shuel earned first-team All-East volleyball honors and was an all-tournament selection while in basketball, she was named East Region MVP and NWAC tournament MVP.
 
Rhea was a two-time YVC female athlete of the year in 1980 and 1981 and lettered in volleyball, basketball and track and field both years. As a freshman, the Eisenhower graduate Rhea led the East Region in rebounding and set a school record in the javelin at 139 feet, 3 inches with a runner-up finish in the NWAC championships. As a sophomore, she earned  All-East honors in volleyball and then duplicated those honors in basketball, leading the program to a sixth place NWAC finish.
 
The 2024-25 team and individual awards ceremony held in Sherar Gymnasium is slated run from 3 to 4 p.m. and be capped by YVC's male and female athlete of the year awards. The Hall of Fame ceremony will follow around 4 pm with a reception afterwards.