Tina Gregory
The Hamilton City School District will induct 12 new members to its athletic hall of fame on Jan. 16 at the Courtyard by Marriott in Hamilton. The reception will begin at 6 p.m., followed by the dinner at 7.
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at the high school athletic office or Clark’s Sporting Goods.
Aaron Cook, Don Curtis, Alex Davis, Robert Garretson, Tina Gregory, Jerry Law, Stan Lewis, Ed Mignery, Stan Lewis, Garland Munz, Brian Nicely and Ted Norris are this year’s inductees.
This is the second in a series profiling the inductees.
Tina Gregory (Class of 1986)
Tina Gregory played three years of fast-pitch softball at HHS.
She went 6-1 as a sophomore, helping Big Blue win the Greater Miami Conference title. In her junior season, HHS went 28-2 en route to a Division I state championship. Gregory was 9-0 in the circle and batted .528 to earn second-team, All-GMC honors.
Gregory went 12-1 as a senior as Big Blue again won the GMC. She was named first-team GMC, All-Southwest and All-Ohio. She finished her career 32-2 with a 1.31 ERA.
Gregory was elected to the Butler County Softball Hall of Fame in 1993.
Jerry Law (Class of 1965)
Jerry Law graduated from Taft after playing football and basketball for three years and track for two years.
As a junior, he led the team in interceptions and was named most valuable defensive back. He also led the team in picks as a senior as the Tigers were ranked top 10 in the state.
In basketball, Law averaged 13 points per game and led the team in steals en route to all-league and all-district honors. The team finished 19-4.
Law held the school record in the 180 low hurdles for many years. He had scholarship offers in football and basketball, but chose to attend Ohio State.
Stan Lewis (Class of 1931)
Stan Lewis graduated from HHS after playing football, basketball and track.
The Big Blue football team went 10-0 in his junior season. Lewis played both ways, and also punted. He was the top scoring player in the nation with 205 of the team’s 331 total points. Opposing teams scored only 13 total points.
He continued his career at Miami, where he led them to a Buckeye Conference championship in 1932 and a co-championship in 1933. Lewis was honorable mention All-American in 1933 and second-team All-Buckeye Conference and honorable mention All-Ohio in 1934.
In 29 years working with the Middletown Middies, Lewis was a teacher, assistant coach, assistant principal and athletic director.
Lewis was inducted into Miami’s Hall of Fame in 1984. He died in 1993.
Ed Mignery, football coach, 1988-2002
During his 14 years coaching football at Hamilton High School, Mignery totaled 77 wins (third in HHS history behind fellow hall-of-famers Dana King and Lou Florio).
Mignery’s 1994 team went 8-3 and won its first Greater Miami Conference title in 30 years and made its first-ever playoffs in 26 years. The 1997 team went 10-0 en route to a GMC championship and another playoff bid. Mignery was named GMC Coach of the Year in 1994 and 1997. He was also named the AP Division I Coach of the Year in 1994 and was the head football coach of the South team in 1995 in the Ohio North-South All-Star Game.
He was instrumental in updating the Virgil M. Schwarm Stadium and building the Blue Room, which displays memorabilia of all Central High, Hamilton High, Garfield High and Taft High football teams. Mignery sent 97 Hamilton High School students on to play at the college level.
Mignery, who played at Badin under legendary coach Terry Malone, is 144-118-1 in 26 years of coaching.