A Real Salt Lake legend and a Weber State Olympian headline Utah Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024

Real Salt Lake legend Kyle Beckerman will be one of five people inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame on Monday. Lindsey Anderson, Kevin P. Gates, Robert Craig Poole and Rod Tueller join the former RSL midfielder as new members.

The induction ceremony takes place at the Little America Hotel, starting with a reception at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are available at utahsportshalloffame.



org . Utah Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024 (Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) Real Salt Lake midfielder Kyle Beckerman (5) acknowledges the crowd after the game at Rio Tinto Stadium Sunday, October 22, 2017. Kyle Beckerman After being traded from Colorado to RSL in 2007, the dreadlocked midfielder became a fan favorite and a team captain who helped establish Salt Lake’s soccer culture.

Beckerman won an MLS Cup and played for the United States in the World Cup. He is now the head coach of the Utah Valley University men’s soccer team. (Eric Gay | AP) Lindsey Anderson, right, during the first heat of the women's 3,000 meter steeplechase race at the U.

S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore., Monday, June 30, 2008.

Anderson is joining the Weber State track and cross country program as an assistant coach. Lindsey Anderson The Morgan High product is already a member of the Big Sky Conference Hall of Fame and the Weber State Athletics Hall of Fame. She holds Wildcat records in the steeplechase, the 10,000 meters outdoors and the 5,000 meters indoors.

She was also the first Weber State athlete to compete in the Summer Olympics, running in Beijing in 2008. Anderson has since returned to her alma mater to coach. Al Hartmann photoAudience, Pine View and Carbon High Schools stand for the National Anthem for the quarterfinals of the Class 3A baseball tournament at Kearns High School on a windy Thursday May 19.

Kevin P. Gates When his high school needed a new baseball field, Gates asked, “Why don’t we do this right?” The end result was the $3.5 million Gates Field at Kearns High School, a diamond that has become a jewel on the Salt Lake Valley’s west side.

Robert Craig Poole The former BYU track coach mentored 14 NCAA individual champions during his 30-year career with the Cougars. Along the way, his teams also posted 15 top-10 finishes in the NCAA indoor and outdoor meets. (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) l-r ÒMost of us thought it was a dream,Ó said Joel Gardner, right, of the Utah Sports Hall of Fame, Wednesday, May 15, 2019.

Gardner, who is a past president of the Utah Hall of Fame talks about the display of the Oquirrh Bucket with Rod Tueller, former athletic director of Utah State University. The Oquirrh Bucket was a traveling trophy given to the Utah State Collegiate Champion basketball team that won the tournament between Utah State University, Weber State University, University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Rod Tueller A Cache Valley athletics icon, Tueller coached basketball at Logan High School before becoming a coach at Utah State.

During his tenure with the Aggies, Tueller worked for six years as an assistant and then took over as the team’s head coach in 1979. He won a Big West Conference Championship and, notably, spent four years in the dual role of head basketball coach and athletic director..