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Began 1986 — documented members as the school's and the hall's records give them, to the Class of 2026
The hall: Mishawaka High School's Athletic Hall of Fame began in 1986, the oldest of the city's three institutional halls, and its banquet in recent years has been held at Riverside Terrace. The school does not publish a complete roll in the record reached — the wall at the school is the roster of record — and the members below are those documented one by one in the hall's own notices, the schools' records and the state halls' pages: the verified set, with the full roll named in this section's expand note as the settling pull.
The documented members: LeRoy Johnson, of the class of 1957, was an inaugural inductee in 1986 — the same Johnson the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame took in 2025, in the entry below. Chuck Alexander (class of 1976) followed in 1989; Dick Freeman, the longtime official of the class of 1949, in 1993; and Steve Anderson, the volleyball coach of the school's three state titles, in 1995, sixteen years before the state's volleyball hall took him. Randy Shayler was inducted in 2001 and Byron Aldrich in 2003. Freddie Fitzsimmons — the 217-game winner, the city's first major leaguer — was inducted in 2019, seventy-six years after his last season, and his entry stands with the state baseball hall's below. One recent class of eight is documented by the Regional Radio Sports Network's announcement: Amy Mazner (1992), Steve Sandefer (2009), Gregg Smith (1993) and Ryan Watson (1994) among its named members, the ceremony on an April 23 at Riverside Terrace. Lorelee Smith stands in the Class of 2024. The Class of 2026, announced by the school in March 2026 and inducted at the banquet of Sunday 19 April 2026 at Riverside Terrace, runs seven: Kelly DeMeulenaere-Stephens (1992), Alex Dolly (2003), David J. Richards (1990), Jamie Lukaszewski (2006), Blair DeCraene (2001), Miguel Lozano (2012) and Anna Rohrer-Heiny (2015) — Rohrer in the same span of years in which the state track hall took her, below.
Sources:
- Mishawaka High School / School City of Mishawaka — the Class of 2026 announcement (March 2026) and the school's hall notices; the class-of-1968 alumni record for the hall's beginning in 1986.
- Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame (hoopshall.com) — LeRoy Johnson's inaugural induction of 1986 and Dick Freeman's of 1993, as the state hall's own pages record their Mishawaka school-hall standing.
- South Bend Tribune, December 2025 — Steve Anderson's induction into the school hall in 1995; Regional Radio Sports Network — the eight-member class announcement and the Class of 2024.
- City of Mishawaka, the historic-marker record — Freddie Fitzsimmons's school-hall induction of 2019.