Oregon 6A football final: Famous graduates of Central Catholic and Lake Oswego, including the president of Afghanistan – OregonLive

Oregon 6A football final: Famous graduates of Central Catholic and Lake Oswego

Yes, this is about sports (kind of). And yes, that’s a picture of Ashraf Ghani, the president of Afghanistan, shaking hands last week with U.S. President Donald Trump (photo by Alex Brandon, Associated Press).

It’s also a picture of a Lake Oswego High School alum shaking hands with a New York Military Academy alum.

When Central Catholic plays Lake Oswego for the Class 6A football state championship at noon Saturday at Hillsboro Stadium, both schools could have several famous alums cheering from afar, maybe even Afghanistan. Here are some notable graduates from both schools:

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RENEE BAUMGARTNER, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Baumgartner, a 1983 Central Catholic graduate, has been the athletic director at Santa Clara since 2015. She retired from her duties as head women’s golf coach at Oregon following the 2000 season after building the Ducks into one of the nation’s premier programs.

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TERRY BEAN, LAKE OSWEGO

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Bean is a pioneering gay rights activist, founder of the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. Bean, 71, will go to trial in May on charges of sodomy and third-degree sexual abuse. He’s accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy in a Eugene hotel room in 2013.

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MATT CHAPMAN, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Chapman, a 1968 Central Catholic grad, has been CEO of several prominent companies, most recently Northwest Evaluation Association, where he retired in 2018. Chapman is a member of the University of Portland’s Board of Regents and is a past board member for OMSI.

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KARI CHISHOLM, LAKE OSWEGO

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Chisholm has served as a political consultant for Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and John Kitzhaber, among many others, but he’s well known in the sports world as well. The 1991 Lake Oswego graduate correctly predicted the winner of the Heisman Trophy every year from 2002 to 2012 on his now-defunct site StiffArmTrophy.com.

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MICHAEL DOLEAC, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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A 1994 Central Catholic graduate, the 6-foot-11 Doleac led Utah to the 1998 NCAA men’s basketball championship game and was 12th pick of the 1998 NBA Draft. Doleac played 11 professional seasons before retiring in 2008. He’s now a physics teacher and high school basketball coach in Park City, Utah.

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STEVEN EVANS, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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A 2010 Central Catholic graduate, Evans became a soccer star at University of Portland, and in 2013 he was promoted from the Timbers’ U-23 team to the MLS club, becoming the second player to sign a homegrown player contract. He retired in 2015 and now coaches youth soccer in the Portland area.

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FARNAZ FASSIHI, LAKE OSWEGO

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Fassihi, Lake Oswego class of 1988, is an award-winning Iranian American journalist who writes about Iran for the New York Times. She became widely known for her coverage of the Iraq War in the early 2000s in the Wall Street Journal and is the author of “Waiting for An Ordinary Day: the Unraveling of life in Iraq.”

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VINCE FRITZ, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Fritz, a 1965 Central Catholic graduate, was a basketball star at Oregon State, earning All-American honors in 1969.

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ASHRAF GHANI, LAKE OSWEGO

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Ghani has been the president of Afghanistan since 2014. As a foreign exchange student, Ghani graduated with the Lake Oswego class of 1967. An anthropologist by profession, Ghani is pro-modernist and a fond admirer of former Afghanistan’s progressive King Amanullah Khan. Ghani was up for reelection this year, but results of the Sept. 28 presidential polls have been repeatedly delayed amid accusations of misconduct and technical problems with counting ballots, according to the New York Times.

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PATRICK GILROY, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Gilroy, a 1950 Central Catholic graduate who died in 2008, served as a circuit court judge for more than 30 years, presiding over famous trials such as Tonya Harding and serial killer Dayton Leroy Rogers.

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JOEY HARRINGTON, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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A 1997 Central Catholic graduate, Harrington had a star-studded quarterback career at Oregon, where in 2001 he was in the running for the Heisman Trophy. Harrington, the third pick of the 2002 NFL draft, played seven years of professional football. He’s now a college football analyst for Fox.

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BILL HEALY, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Healy, who died in 1993, is the founder of Mount Bachelor ski resort.

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ALEX JAMIESON, LAKE OSWEGO

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Jamieson, Lake Oswego class of 1993, is the co-creator of the Oscar-nominated 2004 documentary “Super Size Me” with Morgan Spurlock (they were married from 2006-11). She’s the author of “The Great American Detox Diet” and “Women, Food & Desire.”

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MICHAEL JONES, LAKE OSWEGO

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Jones, Lake Oswego class of 1993 along with Jamieson, gained fame in the early 2000s as an internet entrepreneur and now is CEO of the startup studio Science Inc. in Southern California, where he helps young CEOs turn their ideas into real companies. Jones was named one of L.A.’s 500 most influential people in 2017 by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

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NEIL LOMAX, LAKE OSWEGO

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Lomax, Lake Oswego class of 1977, played for the Cardinals in the NFL from 1981-88 and had to retire in 1990 for health reasons. The Portland State alum made the Pro Bowl in 1984 and 1987. He’s been the football coach at Fort Vancouver High School since 2018 and lives in Lake Oswego.

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FRANK LOLICH, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Lolich, a 1963 Central Catholic graduate, was a standout high school pitcher who went on to play college baseball at BYU and professionally for five years in the New York Mets’ organization.

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DR. CHARLES LOPRINZI, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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A former Rams tennis star who graduated in 1971, Loprinzi is noted for his work as an oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

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KEVIN LOVE, LAKE OSWEGO

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Love, Lake Oswego class of 2007, is a five-time NBA all-star and won an NBA championship with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016. He’s the all-time leading scorer in Oregon big-school boys basketball history with 2,628 points. Love told ESPN last year that he was in the process of establishing a foundation centered on mental health with an emphasis on helping young boys, saying, “I think I’ve found my life’s work.”

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EDGAR O. MITCHELL, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Mitchell, a 1982 Central Catholic graduate, is a former track and field star who was one of the country’s premier shot putters during the 1980s. He became a Portland police officer.

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MARISSA NEITLING, LAKE OSWEGO

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Neitling, Lake Oswego class of 2002, is best known for her roles in the TV series “The Last Ship” and the 2015 film “San Andreas” starring Dwayne Johnson (The Rock). She’s also a huge Ducks fan.

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JULIANNE PHILLIPS, LAKE OSWEGO

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As an actor, Phillips is best known for her role on the TV show “Sisters” from 1991-96, but she’s probably best known overall as the first wife of singer Bruce Springsteen (they married in 1985 in Lake Oswego). The 1978 Lake Oswego graduate hasn’t acted since 1997.

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FRED QUILLAN, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Quillan, who died in 2016 at age 60, is a 1974 Rams graduate who was a standout offensive lineman at Oregon, and then went on to an 11-year NFL career. Quillan was a two-time Pro Bowler who played on two San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl teams.

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GALEN RUPP, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Rupp, one of the country’s all-time great distance runners, is a three-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016). He won a silver medal in the 10,000 at the 2012 Games and a marathon bronze in 2016. He also won the 2017 Chicago Marathon.

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MATT SANTANGELO, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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A 1996 Central Catholic graduate, Santangelo was a starting guard at Gonzaga, during a time when the Zags were just beginning their run as a nationally known team. He’s now executive director of Spokane Hoopfest.

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BRENNAN SCARLETT, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Scarlett went undrafted out of Stanford as an outside linebacker, but he’s had a four-year NFL career. He has 3.5 sacks and two forced fumbles this season playing for the Houston Texans. He played four years at Cal before becoming Stanford’s first graduate transfer.

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DON SCHOLLANDER, LAKE OSWEGO

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Schollander loved football while attending Lake Oswego High School in the early 1960s, but he was too small, so he chose swimming. Good choice. He won a total of five gold medals and one silver medal at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. With four gold medals, he was the most successful athlete at the 1964 Olympics. He lives in Lake Oswego and runs Schollander Development, a real estate development company.

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TIM SOLSO, LAKE OSWEGO

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Solso, Lake Oswego class of 1965, was the CEO of General Motors from 2014 to 2016 and CEO of Cummins Engine Co. from 2000 to 2011.

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KATY STEDING, LAKE OSWEGO

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Steding, Lake Oswego class of 1986, helped lead Stanford to its first women’s basketball national championship in 1990. She also won a gold medal playing for the U.S. women’s basketball team in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Steding was a founding player for the Portland Power in the now-defunct American Basketball League and played two years in the WNBA.

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PETER STOTT, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Stott is a successful local businessman and philanthropist who is president of Columbia Investments, Ltd., and chairman and CEO of Market Express. A multipurpose athletic facility at Portland State is named after Stott.

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SALIM STOUDAMIRE, LAKE OSWEGO

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Stoudamire, Lake Oswego class of 2001, is the third-leading scorer in Oregon big-school boys basketball history with 2,219 points. He starred for Arizona and played three seasons in the NBA.

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JOHN STRONG, LAKE OSWEGO

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Strong has gone from founding Laker Broadcasting while a student at Lake Oswego High School in 2002 to becoming the U.S. Soccer and Major League Soccer’s lead announcer.

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LARA TENNANT, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Tennant, a 1984 Central Catholic graduate and Renee Baumgartner’s sister, in August became the ninth golfer to win the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship in back-to-back years (2018 and 2019).

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GEORGE VAN HOOMISSEN, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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A 1947 Central Catholic graduate, Van Hoomissen spent three decades as a judge, including 12 years as an Oregon Supreme Court justice, and seven years on the Oregon Court of Appeals.

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JOE WESTON, CENTRAL CATHOLIC

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Weston, a 1956 Central Catholic graduate, is known in Portland as a highly successful commercial and residential real estate owner (American Property Management), as well as a philanthropist.

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