PRICE – Utah State Eastern Athletics will be welcoming two new members to its Hall of Fame on Tuesday at their annual end of the year banquet.

This year’s inductees are former CEU student-athlete Jerry Carlson and former CEU Men’s Basketball Coach Ronnie Stubbs.

The banquet will be begin at 6 p.m. inside the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center.

Jerry Carlson

Jerry Carlson was born in 1949 in Price, Utah. He grew in a coal camp located in Wattis, Utah. His father and grandfather were coal miners in the coal camps of Castle Gate and Wattis.

Jerry attended Carbon High School, College of Eastern Utah and Weber State.

In high school he played football, basketball, tennis and ran track. He played basketball and participated in track at CEU.

Jerry was named the CEU Track Athlete of the Year in 1969. He won first place in the high jump at the BYU Invitational.

He has received the Second Miler award from the Boy Scouts of America, an Honoree Doctorate Degree from CEU, the President’s Award from CEU and the Small Business of the Year Award from the Price Chamber of Commerce.

Recently Jerry received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southeast Energy Producers Association.

Over the years, he has helped countless youth programs and without his support, there would be no college baseball field in Price.

Jerry has been married to his wife Patty for 46 years and they are the proud parents of five children with 22 beautiful, gifted and amazing grandchildren.

Ronnie Stubbs

Ronnie Stubbs was born in Canton, Mississippi.  He contracted polio at the age of three years old and being so young, Ronnie did not realize the seriousness of the disease. His mother Helen told him that he would probably have a hard time walking when he got older.  With that said, his doctors never told him that he should not play basketball, let alone high school and college basketball. After a lengthy stay in the hospital, he returned home.
After a few weeks, Ronnie’s mother moved to New York for work and left him under the care of his loving grandmother Daisy and grandfather Otis Lee. They bought him a tricycle; his grandmother put all of the furniture against the wall and turned him loose. Ronnie rode that tricycle from sun up to sun down, he was hell on wheels!
At the age of eight, Helen sent for her son and he moved to New York City to live with her. That is when Ronnie fell in love with basketball. There was nothing more important to him than basketball. After his 9thgrade year, Ronnie moved to Los Angeles, California where he played basketball for Washington High School. After one year at Washington High, he moved to Inglewood where he finished his high school career.

Coming out of high school, Ronnie did not have the grades to attend a university. That is when the College of Eastern Utah head coach Curt Jensen gave him a call. He played for two years under Coach Jenson and then went on to play at Southern Utah University, where he finished his college career. Later, Ronnie relocated to Price, Utah where he accepted a teaching and coaching position at Notre Dame Jr. High. During his first year as Head Coach of the Notre Dame boys’ basketball team, Ronnie’s outstanding leadership and technical skills led the young men to win the County championship. Coach Stubbs later went on to coach the girls’ basketball, boys’ football, and the track teams at Notre Dame.

After a few years, Ronnie advanced to become Coach Jenson’s assistant at CEU.  During this time, he was mentored by Coach Jenson and gained skills that would turn out to be valuable assets, that he would use for the rest of his coaching career. Coach Jenson decided to retire, and Ronnie was at a point where he was ready to step in and take the team another level. With the blessing of Coach Jenson, Bill Petersoi, and Bob Taniguchi, CEU President Mike Peterson gave him the job as interim head coach at CEU. Coach Stubbs and his team won 12 out of their last 18 games that year!

Ronnie Stubbs was the Head Coach at CEU from 1985 to 1995where he won over 200 games. That winning total gave him the most wins in CEU basketball history. Later, Ronnie spent 2 years at Midland College and 3 years at Loyola Marymount University in California. After that, he spent 1 year as assistant to President Grace Jones.

Ronnie moved on to coach for 6 months in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Later, Ronnie was hired to teach Physical Education at West High School in the Salt Lake City School District.  At West High, Coach Stubbs became the basketball coach and athletic director of the school with more than 2,300 students. In the spring of 2019, Coach Stubbs retired as girls’ basketball coach and athletic director.

Coach Stubbs earned his Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and a minor in Psychology from Southern Utah University.  He lives in Salt Lake City, with his wife Jennifer and they have three children, Brittany, Nicholas, and Kaetlyn and two grandchildren.

Coach Stubbs will remain a Physical Education teacher at West High School. Ronnie will also continue to mentor athletes and new coaches in the community. In closing, Coach Stubbs has a few words he lives by:”Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you are going.”