Columbia Basin Athletics is proud to announce the 2026 Class of Inductees- Ray Biggs, Bill Donckers, Steve Schultz and the back-to-back NWAC Champion 1963 and 1964 Baseball Teams.

Ray Biggs

Ray Biggs was a two-year CBC letterman for CBC's football team in 1964 and 1965, helping the Hawks to conference titles both seasons.  Biggs earned First Team All-Conference honors in 1965 as a defensive tackle.
Ray went on to play defensive tackle at Montana State University in 1966 and 1967, winning the Big Sky Championship in both seasons. His college coaching career included stops atWalla Walla CC, Colorado State
Colorado Mesa University (playing for the NAIA national championship in 1982) And Yakima Valley College. In 1989 Biggs joined National Football Scouting where he served as a West Coast NFL scout. In 1994 Biggs embarked on a 17-year career with the Houston Oilers, scouting on the west coast. He stayed with the Oilers as they moved to Tennessee and became the Titans, playing in the Super Bowl in the 2000 season.
After retiring in 2011, he continued working with the NFL Combine in Indianapolis for another eight years.
Hall of Fame Honors:
In 2000, he was inducted into the NWAC HOF
In 2011 his Colorado Mesa team was inducted into the CMU HOF
In 2020 his Montana State football teams were inducted into the MSU HOF
In 2023, 1965 CBC Football Team was inducted into CBC Hall of Fame
 In 2025 he was inducted into the Montana Football HOF

Bill Donckers

Bill Donckers was a two-year captain and the starting quarterback for CBC's 1970 NWAC Championship football team where he earned First Team All-Conference honors and was an Honorable mention All-American. As a junior at San Diego State, Donckers backed up Brian Sipe who would go on be the NFL MVP in 1980.  As a senior for the Aztecs, he earned All-Pacific Coast conference honors as a captain of the football team before embarking on a professional career.

An eye injury kept him out of the NFL draft, but he was selected by the Hawaiian Islanders in the upstart World Football League.   Making his way to the NFL, Donckers was a free agent with the New England Patriots in 1973, and Oakland Raiders in 1974.

In 1976, Donckers made the St Louis Cardinals and played for two more years, coached by his former San Diego State coach and NWAC Hall of Famer Don Coryell.

Bill was inducted into the NWAC Hall of Fame in 1994.  He was inducted into the Renton High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.

Bill passed away in 2012.


Steve Schultz

Steve Schultz grew up playing football and baseball in Pasco.  He was a starting pitcher for Pasco HS in 1967 and 68, graduating from Pasco in 1968. CBC had dropped baseball in 1971, allegedly to funnel more funds into the football program.  Lynda Meyers brought baseball back to CBC in 1986. Schultz started coaching baseball with Scott Woodward at Richland High School in 1982.  After six years leading the Bombers, the pair moved to Columbia Basin College in 1989.  At about the same time, Schultz started working as professional waterfowl guide. He continued guiding during the waterfowl hunting season between fall ball and the regular baseball seasons. He's recognized as a world class duck/goose caller and hunter in the world of waterfowling.  As a personal friend of the Duck Commander Crew including Phil Roberston (deceased) and Miss Kay, he was an honorary Duckman featured on two videos that were put together with hunts done in Washington State.
 
Schultz and Woodward left CBC after the 1996 season.  Schultz returned to the CBC dugout in 1998, retiring again in 2004. Steve returned in 2014, retiring again after 2015.  He returned in 2017 and retired again in 2019. He coached nine Region Champions and helped CBC claim an NWAC Title in 2001, the program's first since 1964. In 2019, the ABCA/NWAC initiated the ABCA/NWAC Assistant Coach of the Year. Steve Schultz was the first recipient of this award. In 55 years, CBC is 1,451 – 783  (.650).  Steve Schultz has been a part of 583 wins, more than any other coach in the storied history of the program.

1963 and 1964 Baseball

Len Pyne worked at CBC from 1956 to 1985, spending eight of those years as the Head Baseball Coach.  Pyne emphasized speed, recruiting the fastest athletes he could.  He said he figured he could teach them how to hit, as long as they were strong pitchers, catchers, and especially if they were fast runners. The Washington Junior College Conference was divided into two divisions – Northern and Southern.  The Northern Division includes, Columbia Basin, Yakima, Wenatchee, Skagit Valley, and Everett, while the Southern Division included Clark, Grays Harbor, Centralia, Olympic, and Lower Columbia.  In baseball, the Northern and Southern Division Champions met in a best of three series for the State Championship.
 
1963 at CBC vs Clark JC
The Hawks posted a 24-5 record in 1963, with all but one loss coming at the hands of four-year schools. The Hawks needed 13 innings to win the second game in a row in a three-game series to claim the State Championship at Sanders Field in Kennewick.
 
1964 at Clark JC
The Hawks posted a 21-12 overall record.   CBC and Yakima were tied on the last day of the regular season, forcing a one-game playoff to determine the Northern Division Champion.  CBC blistered Yakima 23-3 to earn the right to defend the state championship.

The Hawks won the best of three series in Vancouver to claim back-to-back state championships.