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Former UCLA athletes Willie Banks, Kenny Easley, Brian Goodell, Tim Leary, Jerry Robinson and Sinjin Smith and the late Briggs Hunt, former Bruin football player and wrestling coach, will be inducted into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame on Sunday at the James E. West Center. A reception is at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7.

Banks was one of the world’s best triple and long jumpers. He set a world record of 58 feet, 11 1/2 inches in the triple jump in 1985 and was a member of two U.S. Olympic teams.

Easley, a free safety, and Robinson, a linebacker, were the only two football players in the Pacific 10 Conference to be named consensus All-Americans three times.

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Easley was an NFL All-Pro four times with Seattle Seahawks and was named the American Football Conference defensive player of the year in 1984.

Robinson, whose 468 career tackles are the most in school history, began his 12-year NFL career with the Philadelphia Eagles and is a member of the Raiders.

Goodell, a world-class freestyle swimmer, was a member of two U.S. Olympic teams. In the 1976 Olympics, he won gold medals and set world records in the 400-meter and 1,650 freestyle events.

A former UCLA quarterback, Hunt was also a national amateur and Pacific Coast Conference wrestling champion. The Bruin wrestling coach for 30 years and a full professor, Briggs served as a wrestling judge in the 1956 Olympics and as coach of the U.S. Greco-Roman wrestling team in the 1960 Olympics. He died in 1973.

Leary, currently pitching for the New York Yankees, has played with several major league teams. In 1988, he was named the NL comeback player of the year as a member of the Dodgers, who won the World Series that year. He was an All-American at UCLA in 1979.

Smith, the leading money winner in the history of professional beach volleyball, was a two-time All-American who helped the Bruins to NCAA championships in 1976 and 1979.

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William M. (Bill) Jones, who served for 22 years with the Santa Monica school district and also owned a management consulting firm before retiring, was inducted into the University of Toledo’s Varsity “T” Hall of Fame. Jones was a top basketball guard at Toledo in the 1930s and later played professionally with the Toledo Chevrolets and Harlem Globetrotters.

Bobby Gardner, Santa Monica High senior defender, and Steve Kilmann, Beverly Hills High senior midfielder, were named to the All-Southern Section 4-A Division soccer team. Second-team selections included Beverly Hills junior forward Matt Humiston and Santa Monica senior midfielder Carlos Suarez.

Al Monk shot a 37 for nine holes to win the A flight at the March tournament of the Penmar Men’s Golf Club. Other flight winners and their gross scores: Elias Harb, B, 37; Bob Koller, C, 40; Roman Colbert, D, 46, and Ian Rankine, temporary handicaps, 37.

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