Head coach Rudy Carey of the East High School Angels sits on the bench during the first half against the Palmer Terrors at Panek Gym in Denver on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
Pro football legend Tony Boselli, former Denver Post columnist Woody Paige and record-setting high school basketball coach Rudy Carey are among a group of five individuals selected for induction into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame .
The three will be joined by former Broncos defensive end Barney Chavous and longtime sportswriter Scott Stocker in the Class of 2024, the Hall of Fame announced Tuesday afternoon.
All five will be featured at the 59th Annual Banquet on April 17 at the Hilton Denver City Center.
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Woody Paige waits for a home run ball in 1998.
For Boselli, the former star offensive lineman at Fairview High School who was inducted into both the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame, such honors are now old hat. The USC product was drafted second overall in the 1995 NFL Draft by Jacksonville and then earned three All-Pro and five Pro Bowl nods in seven seasons with the Jaguars.
Paige has covered Colorado sports since the 1970s and works as a columnist for The Post, Rocky Mountain News and now the Denver Gazette. He has also been a panelist on ESPN’s “Around the Horn” since the early 2000s and has authored nine books.
Carey has coached boys prep basketball in Colorado for more than four decades, winning three state titles with Denver Manuel and another seven with his alma mater, Denver East. Last winter, he broke the CHSAA record for career wins (now at 897), previously held by Dick Katte, and led the Angels to his record-tying 10th state championship.
Chavous spent his entire 13-year NFL career with the Broncos (1973–85), helping lead them to their first Super Bowl trip in January 1978 as a member of the Orange Crush defense. The defensive end collected 75 sacks and eight fumble recoveries during a career in which he started 178 of 183 games. After his playing days, Chavous coached high school football in Augusta, Georgia.
After receiving a Bronze Star as a nurse in a combat zone in Vietnam, Stocker founded Colorado Sidelines, which covered high school sports. From 1971 to 1985, he served as a reporter, editor, publisher and distributor for the publication – and also worked as a part-time emergency room and intensive care unit nurse in Boulder in the 1970s. He then wrote for the Rocky Mountain News from 1985 to 2009 and founded the Fred Steinmark Award, given to high school athletes who excel athletically, academically and in the community.
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