Hall of Fame
Bill Noxon
Fruitia Monument/Grand Junction
Bill Noxon coached football and baseball at Grand Junction and Fruit Monument high schools, compiling a mark of 133-54-4 (.707), one state championship and five second place finishes over 19 years. His football teams won 11 conference titles. He coached baseball at Fruita where his teams finished runner up in the state on three occasions. A member of the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (2008), Noxon also coached collegiately at Western State College where his teams posted an 84-43-2 mark. In 1968, the 1948 Denver North graduate became the seventh member of Colorado’s “100-win” club with the likes of Dutch Nogel, Tom Sutak, Gil Everly, Lloyd Gaskill, Pat Panek and Tom Hancock. He was noted for teams that were well-mannered and exhibited strong character.