Alex Morgan, Dr. Harry Edwards, Mike Montgomery Named to Bay Area Sports Hall

Alex Morgan, a former star soccer player at Cal and lontime member of the U.S. Women's Socer Team, Dr. Harry Edwards, who has counseled athletes dating back to the 1960s and is a professor emeritus of sociology at Cal, and former Golden Bears basketball coach Mike Montgomery have been named to the 2025 class of the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.

Alex Morgan played at Cal from 2007 to 2010 and was called up to the US WNT during her senior season. She was a two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion (2015, 2019) and an Olympic gold medalist in 2012. She was U.S. Soccer's Fenale Athlete of the Year in both 2012 and 2018.

Morgan, 35, announced her retirement from competitive soccer in the summer of 2024.

Edwards, 82, was a two-sport athlete at San Jose State, his alma mater, starring in basketball and track and field. He made his reputation over decades after his playing days.

Edwards founded the Olympic Project for Human Rights in 1967, which considered a boycott by black athletes at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. It also led to the famous podium protests by Tommie Smith and John Carlos following Smith's world-record-setting 200-meter dash performance.

Beginning in 1985, Edwards was a consultant to the San Francisco 49ers and later helped create the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, whose graduates Cal alum and former NFL coach Ron Rivera.

Montgomery, who turns 78 on Thursday, made his name as coach at Stanford, which he led to four Pac-10 titles,12 NCAA tournament appearances and a Final Four in 1998 during his 18 seasons. He was 393-167 at Stanford.

After an unsuccessful two-year stint as coach of the Golden State Warriors, Montgomery returned to the college scene as Cal’s coach from 2008-09 through 2013-14.

His Cal teams won at least 20 games five times in six seasons, earned four NCAA tournament bids and won the 2010 Pac-10 title — still the school’s only conference championship since the retirement of Pete Newell after the 1959-60 season.

Montgomery’s 32-year record as a Division I head coach was 677-317, including 130-73 at Cal.

Also named to the 2025 class of Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame were baseball star Joe Rudi, and football’s Eric Wright.

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