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Antioch Sports Legends Re-apply to the Antioch Community Foundation for 2021 Grant

The Antioch Sports Legends, along with other non-profits will be re-applying in 2021 for a grant from the Antioch Community Foundation. Thank you once again to Antioch Community Foundation Board of Directors and President Keith Archuleta, for our grant request being approved in 2020! We’re so grateful to be one of the non-profits to have…

Snelson Family Honors 2010 Inductee Coach Bill Snelson With Donation to ASL Museum

The Antioch Historical Museum’s Sports Legends Program Co-Founders, Alumni and volunteers would like to take this opportunity to thank Joyce, Eric and Inger Snelson for your recent very generous donation to the Antioch Sports Legend Program and Museum in the in the memory of your husband, and father Coach Bill Snelson HOF 2010. We are…

CoCo Farms Continues to Support the Antioch Sports Legends Program and Museum

Thanks to Co-Founders Tom Menasco and Eddie Beaudin, the Antioch Sports Legends are benefiting from CoCo Farm’s generosity. For nearly a year Menasco and Beaudin made presentations to the owner/operators of CoCo Farms before an agreement was made last October. This was just in the nick of time as with all of 2020 events being…

“Coach” Bill Snelson died peacefully at home on January 14, 2021 at the age of 91.

Bill Snelson was born in Glenn County, CA. After graduating from Corning High, he was attending Shasta College when the Korean War started and he left to serve a 4 year stint in the Air Force. He was honorably discharged in 1954 and returned to school, where he met Joyce Hill, and they married in…

In Memory of Alvin “Kelly” Martin (1924-1995) on his 25th Memorial Anniversary

Alvin “Kelly” Martin 1924 – 1995 Not a day goes by that we don’t think about you. We miss that kind gentleness about you and that twinkle in your eye. Those kind heartfelt words you had, your ability to always say the right thing and point us in the right direction. Congratulations on being inducted…