2022 Marv Scott Coaches Award Recipient continued

Roy Young

Roy Young is working on his fifth decade as an influential coach in the Tacoma School District. A 1974 graduate of Mount Tahoma, where he was an infielder on the baseball team where he played for Dean Mellor and Ken Schulz, Young’s coaching career started in soccer and softball before settling in for an incredible stretch of longevity on the baseball diamond. Roy retired from teaching in September of 2021.

After graduating from the University of Washington in 1979, Young has spent the rest of his life coaching kids. He was the baseball coach at Tacoma’s Foss High School, a position he held from 1988–2017. Young’s effort has been evident in his influence on many players and also in the quality of the baseball facility at Foss, which has seen a transformation over the years on the bluff above the Cheney Stadium parking lot. Young picked up some turf skills with summer work on the crew at Cheney Stadium and Safeco Field under former head groundskeeper Bob Christofferson.

In 2008, the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association honored Young with the Don Freeman Award for dedication and commitment to high school baseball. In 2011, Young was inducted into the WSBCA

Hall of Fame. Now, he adds the Marv Scott Coaches Award to his résumé.

In an uncommon coaching pairing, Young has been a diving coach in the Tacoma School District for 40 years. In addition to his high school coaching responsibilities, Young also spent a dozen years running baseball summer ball teams (Tacoma Dodgers, Foss Legion). Roy coached 117 high school seasons, most of them in the Tacoma school district. He had 12 state champions in diving, 2 state titles (Connie Mack & Babe Ruth) in summer baseball with the Dodgers and coached 4 All-American divers at the University of Puget Sound.

Young’s spikes have also torn around the basepaths as a player. He was a member of the Tipton’s Carpet Service slowpitch team from 1976–80 and the Angelas and Pederson’s modified fastpitch teams from 1980–91.

CY GREENLAW OLD-TIMER’S SALUTE AWARD

The “Cy Greenlaw Old-timers Salute Award” is named after one of our area’s most gracious and kindhearted individuals to ever set foot in a ballpark. And, as the first recipient of the Oldtimer’s Salute Award in 2003 it is only fitting to honor one of Tacoma’s true pitching legends!

A three-sport star at Kapowsin High School, Cy made a name for himself in the old Tacoma City League and played nine seasons in the minor leagues. In 1935 he was a member of the Tacoma City League champion Superior Dairy team coached by Ocky Haughland. In 1937, Greenlaw pitched for Johnson Paint of Tacoma which finished firth at the National Baseball Congress tournament in Wichita, KS.

In 1940 he played for Vancouver, B.C., in the Western International League before the he joined the U.S. Army in 1941 and after the war ended he joined the Tacoma Tigers of the Class B Western International League and was an 18-game winner in 1946, winning a 3–0 seven-inning no-hitter against the Yakima Stars at Tiger Park. In fact, Greenlaw is one of only 14 pitchers to ever throw a no-hitter in local professional baseball history. But his career was on the decline. After three seasons with Tacoma, he played three more seasons with Wenatchee before retiring from baseball in 1951.