Hall of Fame: Jim Wetmore

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KEVIN KONG
Sports Editor

After 29 years of teaching and 11 years of coaching boys’ varsity basketball, Jim Wetmore was recently inducted into the AHS Hall of Fame.
Wetmore attended California State University, Los Angeles and received his master’s degree in education from Azusa Pacific University.
Wetmore began teaching in 1983 and served as the head coach for basketball from 1984 to 1995. With his leadership, the team went to the California Interscholastic Federation quarter-finals three times, won 14 tournaments, won the Foothill League Championship in 1988 and won Almont League in 1995. Wetmore retired as coach with a record of 172-82. He has been named “Coach of the Year” by Pasadena Star News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune and “Post-Advocate Coach of the Year” four times.
“I really enjoyed […] coaching. I had a lot of good student athletes […] that have gone on to be successful in their lives, such as Hung Duong and Han Trieu,” Wetmore said.