WATCH 2020 JESUIT DALLAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO

Jesuit Dallas is proud to announce the Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2020. The Rangers are historically one of the strongest high school athletic programs in the state, having won 125 state championships, and a state-best 67 boy's district titles since joining the UIL in 2003. Five men that have shaped that remarkable legacy are among those that will be inducted at the 22nd annual Blue & Gold Banquet on Saturday, May 2, which is open to all supporters of the Jesuit community.
 
CHARLIE DELONG
 
One of the most revered high school coaches in North Texas, Charlie DeLong has served as the head varsity coach of soccer at Jesuit Dallas since 1981 and recently earned the 600th victory of his illustrious career. Entering the 2020 season, Coach DeLong is the seventh-winningest active head coach in the nation and is the third-winningest coach in the history of Texas boys' high school soccer. During his long and accolade-filled career, DeLong has won 87 percent of the games he has coached and is a 17-time state champion at Jesuit Dallas.
 
DeLong has earned two consensus Texas Coach of the Year honors (2010, 2017) since Jesuit joined the University Interscholastic League (UIL) in 2004 and is a four-time Dallas Metroplex Coach of the Year (1988, 2006, 2010, 2017). In addition to earning the 1991 Region III High School Coach of the Year honor, DeLong helped the Rangers capture 15 Texas Christian Interscholastic League (TCIL) state titles and a pair of UIL titles in 2010 and 2017.
 
In 2010, Jesuit Dallas soccer was ranked No.1 in the nation according to ESPN and the NSCAA, and finished the year 25-0-0 to become the first private school in UIL history to capture a state crown in any sport. From 1988-1991, Jesuit Dallas established a national-record, 72-game unbeaten streak (69-0-3), a record that still stands.
 
Throughout his time at the helm of the Ranger soccer program, DeLong has mentored several professional athletes and 11 Jesuit Dallas Hall of Famers, including former Gatorade Texas Player of the Year Christopher Dean '91, Puerto Rico national team member Scott Jones '02, U.S. National Team member and MLS All-Star Kenny Cooper '03, and MLS alumni, Ian Kalis '08 and Kingsley Bryce '11.
 
In addition to his excellence on the soccer pitch, DeLong was the cross country head coach from 1983-85 and has been a football varsity assistant coach since his arrival at Jesuit. 
 
DENNIS TRAYNOR '87
 
A four-year starter on Jesuit's varsity baseball team, Traynor helped lead the Rangers to TCIL state championships in 1985 and 1987 while emerging as one of the top sluggers in the Metroplex. Finishing his career as a two-time all-state selection at shortstop, Traynor closed his junior and senior seasons with batting averages that ranked among the top 10 in the DFW area. His stellar senior campaign garnered All-TCIL State Tournament First Team honors and honorable mention all-area plaudits, the latter of which included the top student-athletes from public and private schools.
 
At Centenary, Traynor's high school career translated to a historically stellar career playing for the Gents' baseball team. A two-time All-Trans America Athletic Conference selection (1990, 1991), Traynor still holds the single-season program record with 60 runs scored during the 1990 season and finished his three-year career ranked second in runs scored (141), third in stolen bases (57), fourth in walks (120) and sixth in assists (316).
 
Following his playing career, Traynor continued his relationship with the game as an assistant coach for Centenary  (1992-93), head coach of Dixie Baseball in Shreveport, La., and as a coach with the Keller Youth Baseball Association.
 
TONY CORONA '01
 
A star runner for the cross country and track & field programs, Tony Corona was a four-time TCIL individual state champion who specialized in the 800-meter run. In track, Corona was a three-time team captain and the first sophomore captain in program history. Earning Team MVP honors in 1999 and 2001, Corona set a school record during his sophomore year in the 800m and won TCIL state championships in 1998, 1999 and 2000. One of the five-fastest 800m runners in the nation during the 2001 indoor season, Corona was a member of the Rangers' TCIL state championship track team in 2000 and competed on a 4x800-meter relay team that won the 2001 high school national championship.
 
Corona left Jesuit Dallas with school records in the 800-meter run, the sprint medley relay, and the 4x400-meter relay, while helping Jesuit to the 2000 TCIL State Championship and a pair of titles at the Texas Relays. In 2000, Corona led Jesuit to a victory in the 4x400m and replicated his heroics in Austin a year later in the sprint medley.
 
In cross country, Corona led the Blue and Gold to TCIL team titles in 1998 and 1999, capturing the individual TCIL state crown to cement the second of back-to-back state championships. Corona capped his Jesuit career by earning the Jesuit Dallas Athlete of the Year award in 2001.
 
After graduating from Jesuit, Corona attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. He earned All-Patriot League honors every year from 2002-05, and helped extend the Black Knights' run as league champions to 10 years. At the time of his graduation, Corona's time in the 800m ranked in the program's all-time top 10.  
 
ALEX RINALDI '07
 
One of only five student-athletes during Jesuit's history to secure an individual state championship in the UIL, Alex Rinaldi was a standout wrestler who captured the 180-pound UIL 5A State Championship in 2007. A three-time state qualifier, Rinaldi entered state as the top seed and bested Highland Park's Ted Gambordella with an 8-6 decision in the finals to become the second wrestler in Jesuit Dallas history to win a UIL state title.
 
The masterful title run in 2007 capped a high school career which saw Rinaldi post a 124-32 record at Jesuit, including an 81-10 record over his last two seasons in a Ranger uniform. In addition to his excellence on the mat, Rinaldi was a multi-sport athlete at Jesuit, starting at center for Jesuit's football team during his senior season while earning two letters as a member of the Ranger lacrosse team.
 
Rinaldi wrestled collegiately at Drexel University, earning a spot on the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) All-Rookie Team in 2009 after scoring a victory in the CAA Championships at 165 pounds. A four-year contributor for the Dragons, Rinaldi continues to give back to the wrestling community where he now serves as an assistant coach at Boston College High School.
 
TOM SCOTT '08
 
With karate set to make its Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2020, Jesuit Dallas alumnus Tom Scott '08 is seeking to make history as a member of the U.S. Olympic Team. The first American to be ranked No. 1 in the world according to the World Karate Federation, Scott delivered a sensational performance on the final day of the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, en route to a Gold medal.
 
Scott is one of the most decorated karateka's in the history of the United States. A 15-time national champion and six-time Pan American Gold medalist, he has been named USA Karate Male Athlete of the Year on five separate occasions. At the 2019 Pan American Games, Scott replicated the heroics from his Gold-medal performance at the 2015 Games in Toronto by defeating Hernani Verissimo of Brazil in the final. Throughout his illustrious career, Scott has earned 36 medals on the international stage and is one of two Americans to ever take gold in both a kilo and open weight category, accomplishing the feat at the 2012 Pan American Championships.
 
The third-degree black belt is currently ranked fifth in the Olympic standings and has the opportunity to become the first Jesuit Dallas alumnus to compete in the Summer Olympic Games this August in Tokyo.