Julia Mancuso - Olympic Champion

Julia Mancuso

Julia Marie Mancuso (born March 9, 1984) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. She won the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and was the silver medalist in both downhill and combined in 2010, and the bronze medalist in the combined in 2014. She has also won five medals (two silver and three bronze) at the World Championships and seven races in regular World Cup competition. Her four Olympic medals are the most ever for a female American alpine skier.

During the Olympic Alpine Skiing competition in Torino in 2006, former Olympic gold medal winner Picabo Street stated what a big disappointment the U.S. women skiers have been up to the point. Right after she said that, 21 year old Julia Mancuco skied her perfect gold medal winning Giant Slalom race (see above). Even the Italian fans present cheered for that "Mancuso" girl from Lake Tahoe. If Olympic medals are the chief manner of judging success, Julia has gone on to win two more silver medals (Vancouver 2010) and a bronze medal (Sochi 2014). She is half Calabrian and half Cisalpine ancestry.

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Dan Pastorini

Dan Pastorini

Dante "Dan" Anthony Pastorini (born May 26, 1949 in Sonora, California) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, and the Philadelphia Eagles.

NFL career

Pastorini was drafted by the Houston Oilers in the first round (third overall) of the 1971 NFL Draft out of Santa Clara University. The draft was dubbed "The Year of the Quarterback" with Pastorini taken third behind Jim Plunkett (first) and Archie Manning (second).

Pastorini was known as a tough quarterback throughout his career.[citation needed] From 1971 through 1979, Pastorini missed only five regular season games, playing through the pain of broken ribs and even a punctured lung at times. He was the first player to wear the now ubiquitous "flack jacket" under his uniform to protect broken ribs. He did not play behind what would be considered a quality offensive line until 1977 when the Oilers hired Joe Bugel as offensive line coach and brought in players like Greg Sampson and, later Leon Gray. By 1978, the Oilers had a running game with the drafting of future Hall-of-Famer Earl Campbell.

Pastorini was also named to the 1975 AFC Pro Bowl Team.

Pastorini's best season came in 1978 when he threw for a career high 2,473 yards and 16 touchdowns. In the 1978 playoffs, Pastorini fared very well, helping lead the Oilers to wins over the Miami Dolphins and AFC East division champion New England Patriots.

Pastorini's last game as a Houston Oiler was the 1979 AFC championship game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, a game which many Oilers fans contended was decided when, in their opinion, the officials blew a call on a Mike Renfro TD reception. Instant replay rules, in any form, were not in effect at the time, so the play could not be reviewed, as it would be in the present day. The best replay angles NBC could provide of the play show Renfro clearly catching the ball and getting both feet in the endzone with no juggling. It was not clear to the referees but was very clear to all viewers of the game that Renfro had complete control of the ball when he hit the ground. His feet according to the replays were both inbounds when he had possession of the ball. The play was a major turning point in the momentum of the game, which resulted in a Steeler triumph.

Later in 1980, Oilers owner, Bud Adams, traded Pastorini to the Oakland Raiders, in exchange for an aging Ken Stabler, who was 3 years Pastorini's senior.

Five weeks into the 1980 season with Oakland, after posting a 2-2 record, Pastorini broke his leg against the Kansas City Chiefs. The fans, who had been unhappy with his performance and wanted to see backup Jim Plunkett, cheered when they realized he was hurt. Plunkett, a Heisman Trophy winner out of Stanford, and former starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, had been with the Raiders as a backup quarterback since 1978. He took over and led the Raiders to a Super Bowl victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in January 1981.

Outside of football

Pastorini raced hydroplanes, drag-raced cars, judged wet T-shirt contests, and starred in a 1974 B-movie called Weed: The Florida Connection and then co-starred in a 1979 Lee Majors movie called Killer Fish. He married glamour model June Wilkinson, who appeared in Playboy Magazine. She is British and 9 years older. They had one child, a daughter, and later divorced.

Dan Pastorini drove a Top Fuel Dragster as part of the NHRA Full Throttle (Winston) Drag Racing Series in the mid 1980s. He collected several national event victories. His first came in Atlanta at the NHRA Southern Nationals in 1986.

Pastorini currently lives and works in Houston. His highly anticipated autobiography -- Taking Flak: My life in the fast lane -- is scheduled for release in November of 2011. He currently is launching a new line of food products.

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Quarterback

Personal information
Date of birth: May 26, 1949 (age 62)
Place of birth: Sonora, California
High School: Bellarmine College Prep
Height: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight: 208 lb (94 kg)

Career information
College: Santa Clara
NFL Draft: 1971 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3
Debuted in 1971 for the Houston Oilers
Last played in 1983 for the Philadelphia Eagles

Career history
Houston Oilers (1971-1979)
Oakland Raiders (1980)
Los Angeles Rams (1981)
Philadelphia Eagles (1982-1983)

Career highlights and awards
1× Pro Bowl selection (1975)
1× Super Bowl champion (XV)

Career NFL statistics as of 1981
Pass attempts: 3,055
Pass completions: 1,556
Percentage: 50.9
TD-INT: 103-161
Passing Yards: 18,515
QB Rating: 59.1

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Remembering Kevin Restani

Remembering Kevin Restani

[from RiordanHS.org; see above link for more information]

April 25, 2011 marked the one-year anniversary of the passing of a basketball and San Francisco legend Kevin Restani. Kevin’s unexpected death left a void in the lives of those that knew him, especially his family from Archbishop Riordan High School and the Olympic Club.

Archbishop Riordan High School President, Patrick W. Daly and Olympic Club Foundation Chair, Steve Carnevale came together to develop a partnership to recognize the accomplishments of this extraordinary man.

Kevin was a loving husband and a gifted athlete who enjoyed spending countless hours helping children in need. It was decided in order to recognize Kevin’s life, the gymnasium at Archbishop Riordan would receive a complete overhaul and be named after him. The new facility will be called the Kevin Restani Sports Arena. The Olympic Club Foundation with Archbishop Riordan and its alumni community are excited about making this project a successful partnership.

Phil Galvin, Director of Basketball Operations at the Olympic Club stated “This is the right job for us [the Olympic Club Foundation] to do. Everything Kevin started was in the Riordan gym. If you were to tell him [Kevin] this is what was going to happen, he would say, “Yeah, absolutely!” There is no one more deserving of such an honor for what he did for this school [Archbishop Riordan], the city, and the Olympic Club. He was truly one of a kind.”

Archbishop Riordan High and the Olympic Club Foundation are excited to be embarking upon the initial phase of an athletic renovation campaign at Archbishop Riordan High School. The plan looks to the future of archbishop Riordan while memorializing Kevin, a class of 1970 graduate from Archbishop Riordan High School and an integral member of the Olympic Club basketball Program.

This initial phase of the renovation, the Remembering Restani Campaign, charts a clear and focused course to address the capital needs of the current facility. the goal is to modernize the existing gymnasium. The modernized facility will meet the needs of archbishop Riordan student/athletes and youth athletics.

The Remembering Restani Campaign encompasses the replacement of the gym floor, lights, baskets and lower bowl seating, as well as renovations and upgrades to the main locker room, team rooms, and offices. The modernization of the Restani sports arena is the first step of a three phase athletic facilities campaign. With a state-of-the-art gymnasium and projected new facilities, Archbishop Riordan will provide modern athletic facilities to meet the needs of its diverse student body and the youth of San Francisco.

The renovation of the Restani Sports Arena will introduce a new grand lobby. The lobby’s focus will be the Kevin Restani Memorial Wall.

The current estimated cost of the gymnasium renovation is $3.2 million. Raising funds to begin construction by spring 2012 is the goal of the school and the Olympic Club Foundation.

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