Menlo School inducts 10 into Athletics Hall of Fame, recognizes champion snowboarder with Lurie Award

Menlo School inducted 10 into the Athletics Hall of Fame and a national champion snowboarder received the Robert A. Lurie Award. Inducted into the Hall of Fame: Kyle Utsumi (water polo coach), Phil Huff ’89 (golf), Matt Lapolla ’89 (football, baseball), Tiffany Lee ’04 (tennis), Michal Oda-Burns Martin ’04 (soccer, cross country, track), Max Glenn ’09 (tennis, basketball), Ryan O’Holleran ’09 (football, basketball, lacrosse), Jaye Boissiere ’14 (soccer), Mikey Diekroeger ’14 (baseball, basketball), Jack Heneghan (football, basketball) ’14.

Snowboarder Kelly Marren Nachbar ’09 received the Robert A. Lurie Award. She is a former U.S. champion snowboarder and national snowboarding halfpipe team member. During her time on the U.S. team, she had numerous top 10 finishes in World Cups, Revolution Tours, World Championships, XGames, Dew Cups, and U.S. Open Circuits.

An avid gymnast while a Menlo Middle School student, Marren turned her focus to snowboarding. She was among the first women to land a “backside 900” — two and a half full spins while spinning backward — in the halfpipe. Eventually, Kelly became the first snowboarder from Northstar to make the U.S. National Halfpipe Team.  She captured titles in the USA Nationals in 2010 and 2012. While attending Stanford, she competed on the triathlon team.

Menlo Athletics Hall of Fame inductees include:

Kyle Utsumi,  Girls’ Water Polo Coach, Swimming Assistant Coach

Utsumi coached the girls’ water polo team for nine seasons from 1997-2005 and was Assistant Coach for the swim team for 11 years, serving nine of those 11 years as Aquatics Director. Under his tenure, the girls’ water polo won three girls’ CCS Championships in the top tier (1998, 2004, 2005). Utsumi established the Middle School aquatics program. In the national arena, he was head coach of USA Youth and Junior National women’s teams and served on the U.S. Women’s Olympic team coaching staff in 2004 & 2008. After Menlo, he was a women’s assistant coach from 2007-2022 for Stanford, which landed seven NCAA championships. He is now the Director of Water Polo at Punahou School in Honolulu.

Phil Huff ’89, Golf

Huff, a three-time MVP, helped Menlo win the Peninsula Athletic League Tournament as a junior and senior, and was crowned CCS champion in 1989. A team captain, he led the Knights to a league crown and into the NorCal team finals his senior year and finished in fifth place at the NorCal High School Championships in his junior and senior seasons.  In college he was a two-time captain and four-year letter-winner at Cal.

Matt Lapolla ’04 Football, Baseball

At Menlo, Lapolla, a running back/linebacker, was selected Peninsula Athletic League Ocean first-team and served as captain as a junior and senior. As a junior, he had 1,000 -plus all-purpose yards in league play. As a senior, he had 206 carries for 1,320 yards and 14 rushing TDs. Lapolla was a four-year letterwinner in baseball, and as a senior captain was the starting catcher for the CCS Championship team. In college: Lapolla played football for four seasons at Pomona, and for his work-study, he developed a data system for recruiting.

Tiffany Lee ’04 Tennis

At Menlo, Lee lifted the Knights to three NorCal titles and three Central Coast Section championships from 2000-2002. She was a 2002 and 2003 All-American and first-team, all-league selection. During her senior season, she led the Knights to a league title and was named MVP. In college: Lee played the 2004-05 season for Cal before transferring to Rice University, and promptly paced Rice to its first conference championship. She earned two All-Conference USA Third Team honors for the Owls and was a two-time Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete. As a senior, she also won the 2008 Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports-Scholar Award.

Michal Oda-Burns Martin ’04 Soccer, Cross Country, Track

At Menlo, Oda-Burns was a two-year letter-winner in cross-country, soccer, and track & field, specializing in sprints and relays. She was named team MVP in all three sports and was selected junior Athlete of the Year in 2003 and CIF Scholar-Athlete finalist in 2003. Oda-Burns went to Menlo Middle School, played for a Washington state Olympic Development team, and when she returned to Menlo as a junior, she played on a NorCal Olympic Development team for two years. In college: Oda-Burns went on to play soccer at UCLA during her sophomore and junior years.

Max Glenn ’09 Tennis, Basketball

At Menlo, Glenn helped Menlo School to four CCS Championships — two in basketball and two in tennis. The Knights boys’ tennis teams went on to win two NorCal Championships in 2008 and 2009. During his junior and senior seasons, Glenn captured two individual CCS Doubles titles with Patrick Chase in 2008 & 2009. In college, Glenn was a captain for two years for UC Santa Barbara, the 2013 Big West Conference champion. He was named most improved in 2010 and 2011 and most inspirational in 2012 for the Gauchos.

Ryan O’Holleran ’09 Football, Basketball, Lacrosse

At Menlo, as a senior captain, O’Holleran was a first-team all-league linebacker and earned defensive MVP honors. O’Holleran was the lone sophomore selected first-team all-league, and was a second-team, all-county pick in 2006 when the Knights were co-champions of the Peninsula Athletic League-Ocean. He helped Menlo basketball to CCS and league titles as a junior and a league co-championship as a sophomore. He also played a season of lacrosse. In college, O’ Holleran started his first several years at linebacker and finished his career as a tight end for UC Davis. O’Holleran was awarded the “Special Teams Player of The Year” for the Aggies in 2013 and served as captain.

Jaye Boissiere ’14 Soccer

At Menlo, Boissiere earned West Bay Athletic League MVP honors in 2012 when she led the Knights to the Central Coast Section Div. III title. She represented the United States at the U-23, U-18, U-17, U-16, and U-14 levels. She played for the U18 national team in the 2014 Ten Nations Tournament in Spain. In college, a four-year letter-winner for four-time Pac-12 Conference champion Stanford, she made three Women’s College Cup appearances, and won a 2017 national title. She was MVP of the 2017 NCAA Women’s College Cup, and the 2018 MAC Herman Watchlist for best women’s soccer players in NCAA Div. I. After college, Boissiere played with the Washington Spirit before matriculating to medical school at Duke in 2022.

Mikey Diekroeger ’14 Baseball, Basketball

At Menlo, the shortstop and pitcher batted .365 and had 55 RBIs in his four-year career at Menlo. As a senior, he turned a game-ending triple play at shortstop in the CCS playoffs, making a diving catch, tagging second, and throwing to first to launch Menlo into the quarterfinals. Diekroeger batted .351 as a freshman, and Menlo went on to win a CCS Div. III Championship. In his junior season, Menlo returned to the CCS finals and finished with a 22-7 record. He also played basketball, averaging 5.4 points his junior season. In college, Diekroeger led the team at Stanford in on-base percentage as a freshman and as a sophomore started all 54 games at third base, finishing with 26 RBI and a team-high 15 doubles. He started all 39 games as a junior.

Jack Heneghan ’14 Football, Basketball

At Menlo, Heneghan was co-offensive MVP for the Peninsula Athletic League and a San Francisco Chronicle all-metro selection as a senior quarterback. He was selected to the all-state small-schools second team. He passed for 2,974 yards and 37 touchdowns. Heneghan also helped the basketball team to a 21-8 record and was an all-WBAL junior. In college, the Dartmouth quarterback and captain was named All-Ivy League Honorable Mention and Academic All-District First Team. As a senior, he ranked fourth in the Ivy League with a 139.43 efficiency. As a junior, he received the team award as the offensive underclassman who contributed most to the success of the team after producing one of the most prolific passing seasons in Dartmouth history, ranking second in completions and attempts, plus third in yardage. After college, he signed an undrafted free-agent contract with the San Francisco 49ers.

Photo credit: Javier Flores Photography

Back row, from left: Jason Agrella (Boissiere presenter), Tiffany Lee ’04. former tennis coach Bill Shine (Lee and Glenn presenter), Jack Heneghan ’14, former football coach and Menlo teacher Mark Newton ’88 (Heneghan & O’Holleran presenter), Ryan O’Holleran ’09, former Menlo AD, teacher and baseball coach Craig Schoof (Lapolla presenter), Phil Huff ’89, Henry Huff (Huff presenter), Angie McPhaul ’06 (Utsumi presenter), Donoson FitzGerald (Oda-Burns presenter)

Front row: Kenny Diekroeger ’09, Jaye Boissiere ’14, Danny Diekroeger ’10, Mikey Diekroeger ’14, Matt Lapolla ’04, Michal Oda-Burns Martin ’04, Kyle Utsumi