Inductees
Keith Spataro
Year: 2015
Gender: Male
About Keith:
A two-time Coast Conference Champion at Skyline College in 1989-91, Keith Spataro was a two-time Community College place winner and All-American. He was the Northern California Regional Champion for Skyline in 1990, as well as team captain and voted the Outstanding Wrestler. Keith was selected to represent USA Wrestling on the California Cultural Exchange Team touring Japan in 1990. He transferred to San Francisco State University where he was a NCAC Conference Champion, a West Regional Champion, a team captain and voted Outstanding Wrestler in 1993. He was a two-time NCAA place winner and All-American at San Francisco State from 1991-93. Spataro was the wrestling head coach at San Mateo High School while still competing in college, and his teams won three Peninsula Athletic League Championships while combining for a record of 47-8. After a year as co-head coach at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco, Keith became the head coach at Skyline College from 1995-2000 while he was coaching and teaching at Burlingame High School at the same time. Keith accepted the position of wrestling head coach at Menlo College from 2001-08 and he has been Director of Athletics there since 2008. His intercollegiate overall record was 182-116-1, and the teams won two Northern California Community College Conference Championships, two NAIA West Region Championships and two NCAA Division II West Region Championships. Spataro coached three Community College Champions, six National Champions, 29 All-Americans, 36 Honorable Mention All-Americans, and six Academic AllAmericans. Keith was NAIA West Region Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2006, Northern California Community College Coach of the Year in 1997 and in 2000, and California Community College Assistant Coach of the Year in 1994. The California Pacific Athletic Conference Athletics Director of the Year in 2010 and 2014, he was also NAIA Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year in 2014. He is very involved on many NAIA Boards. He was inducted into the Skyline College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011, and he is affiliated with the National Wrestling Coaches Association, National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors, and a Board Member of California USA Wrestling.
