Scott Holmstedt

Scott Holmstedt graduated from AHS in 1973 and had many great accomplishments as a high school student and athlete.

Scott was a two-year letterman in football, playing on the 1972 football team, which was previously inducted into the Hall of Fame. He played tight end for Coach Chuck Burns, and the team was the Coast-Valley league champions for 3A, which is the equivalent of the 5A level today. Built on an offense that was dominant at the running game, he was the league's highest scoring receiver. A highlight for Scott was a crucial game against Forest Grove in which Dennis Gantenbein threw three touchdown passes to him to keep their undefeated season alive. He was selected as first team All-League and second team All-State. Scott was also a two-year letterman in baseball in which his senior year the team earned first place in the Coast League and second in the Coast-Valley League. Along with his athletic accomplishments, he was an honor roll student and the editor of the Astor Post his senior year.

After graduating from Oregon State University in 1978, Scott returned to AHS. For over 20 years, he taught photography, art, computer design and was the yearbook adviser for over 10 years. Along with teaching, Scott coached football, first as the freshmen coach, then as the defensive coordinator for Miles Brenden and was the JV baseball coach for five years and varsity baseball coach for seven years from 1985-1991. Along with coaching the summer league Junior State team for seven years, he also volunteered as a Little League coach for four years, was president of the Babe Ruth league for five years and coached a Babe Ruth team for three more.

In 1999, when the district was just getting started with integrating technology into our schools, he was asked by Superintendent Len Carpenter to fill the position as district technology director. At that time, there was one internet connection at the high school and 25 computers. For the next 20 years as technology rushed into the classrooms, he was responsible for building a district-wide network, student database, maintaining a thousand computers and helping teachers integrate technology into their curriculums. Along with those responsibilities, and to help the district with funding new technologies, he wrote, and the district has been awarded, over four million dollars in different grant monies.

When the first hall of fame class was inducted in 1998, Mike Goin asked Scott to help out by designing programs, build a website and put together write-ups for wall displays. Little did he know 20 years later his talents would continue to support the hall of fame publications for all new inductions.