Gone, Lost & Forgotten: Their Best = Seattle Pacific

Frank Futado was a football player.  It was the sport he was known for growing up in Ripon, California.  He didn't wrestle.  In fact, the only winter sport he ever dabbled in at all was basketball.  Yet while playing football in college, he became interested in the the sport. It was something that fascinated him & something that he wanted to learn.  A local Dentist started a club team on campus & Furtado joined.  

Post graduation Furtado got a job teaching at George Fox University (another program we've lost) where ironically enough he helped to coach both wrestling & basketball. 

Seattle Pacific began to make plans to start a varsity program in 1965 & by the season of 1967-1968 Falcon wrestling began.  It only lasted through the 1973-1974 season, but in those seven years, at least one wrestler qualified to the NCAA Division II tournament every season.  The Falcons finished in ninth place in 1971 & in seventh place in 1972.  Not bad for a coach whose entire exposure to wrestling was taught to him by a local dentist. 

After the discontinuation of wrestling at Seattle Pacific, Furtado once again found himself associated in the sport of basketball.  He would spend the next 35 years as a trainer for the Seattle Supersonics.  

Ken Hagen
167 lbs 

Hagen was a two time NCAA Division II All American for the Falcons.  He placed sixth in 1970 & in fourth in 1971.  At the end of the 1970-1971 school year, Hagen was named Seattle Pacific's athlete of the year. 

Drake Lemm
150 lbs 

Lemm earned NCAA Division II All American honors in 1971 with a fourth place finish. 

Sam Myers
126 lbs 

Myers twice earned NCAA Division II Al American honors for the Falcons.  After placing fourth in 1971, he made the finals in 1972. 

Junior Allen 
190 lbs 

The late Junior Allen came to Seattle Pacific all the way from South Browerd High School in Florida.  He took third place at the 1972 NCAA Division II championships. 

Rick Maras
190 lbs  

Rick Maras was a two time NCAA Division II All American for the Falcons.  He placed fifth in 1973 & in fourth in 1974.