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Whittier College

Hall of Fame

John Weber

Helend Copeland Garcia

  • Class
  • Induction
  • Sport(s)
    Cross Country, Track & Field
  • 4 Cross Country letters, 1991-92, 92-93, 93-94

  • 3 Track & Field letters, 92-93, 93-94, 94-95

  • Cross Country MVP, 1993-94, 94-95

  • Track & Field MVP Runner, 1994-95

  • Cross Country Most Improved, 1992-93

  • SCIAC Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Year, 1994-95

  • SCIAC Champion Women’s Track & Field 3000m, 1994-95, 1st

  • All SCIAC Women’s Cross Country 1st Team, 1994-95, 2nd

  • All SCIAC Women’s Cross Country 2nd Team 1992-93

  • NCAA III Women’s Cross Country Championships Participant, 1994-95

  • Purple & Gold Female Athlete of the Year 1994-95

  • Born in California 1973, Helen graduated from Whittier Christian HS in 1991

  • She lettered in Cross Country and Track, receiving Whittier Christiancs 1990 Most Valuable Player Award for Cross Country

  • Upon graduating from Whittier College in 1995, she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to teach Kindergarten and First Grade at Holy Ghost Catholic School, where she is currently in her 11th year

  • Helen earned her elementary teaching credential from the University of New Mexico in 1998 and received the 2008 accompanist for Albuquerque’s Immanuel Prebyterian Church Youth Choir since 2004.

 

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