It doesn’t matter if you were a Tiger or a Yellow Jacket or Warrior. If you played on or coached a team at Edmonds High School, Woodway High School or the current Edmonds-Woodway High School, you could be a candidate for the Edmonds-Woodway High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

Edmonds-Woodway’s current athletic director, Angie McGuire, this week announced that she is seeking nominees to the Hall of Fame, which is aimed at recognizing athletes from all three schools — starting when Edmonds High School first opened its doors in 1909, to the opening of rival Woodway High School in 1967, to the merger of the two schools in 1990.

“There have been so many amazing people – athletes, coaches and teams – that have come through these schools,” said McGuire, an Edmonds native who was among those in the first class to enter the merged Edmonds-Woodway in 1990-91.

McGuire noted that the merger “was a somewhat contentious time” for Edmonds High and Woodway High alums. “Hard-core Tigers have a hard time shouting ‘Go Warriors,'” said McGuire, herself a two-sport athlete at Edmonds-Woodway who also spent six years as the EWHS girls basketball coach. “This is an opportunity to bring everyone back together and get them connected to the school.”

The EWHS Athletic Hall of Fame will not only recognize the accomplishments of student-athletes, coaches, teams and sports contributors but will also preserve the history of high school athletes citywide, she said.

Turns out that the Hall of Fame already has one member, nominated by former EWHS Athletic Director (and now current Edmonds School District Athletic Director) Julie Stroncek. That person is Mike Pittis, who had a 40-year coaching career in the Edmonds School District, including 20 years coaching volleyball at Edmonds-Woodway High School. Pittis, who retired from his volleyball coaching position in January 2010, is serving on the newly formed Athletic Hall of Fame Selection Committee, which will review all nominees, McGuire said.

In creating the Edmonds-Woodway Hall of Fame, the committee has reviewed what other area schools have done in terms of creating successful models, including Mountlake Terrace, Cascade and Stanwood high schools, McGuire said.

“We want the community to get involved by nominating a coach, player or team that they were on,” McGuire said. To submit a nomination, use the form here. The committee will notify all inductees by June, and a recognition banquet for those selected will be held at EWHS in fall 2015.

All honorees will be part of a Hall of Fame display, likely to be installed in the trophy case now visible next to the EWHS gym.

And if you are interested in learning more about the history of all three high schools, including their athletic teams, you are in luck. My Edmonds News was given a tour of an EWHS display, just outside the school library, that includes memorabilia from all three schools. And the Edmonds HIstorical Museum is currently offering a “Washington Schoolhouses” exhibit that features an extensive collection of photographs, artifacts, and oral history related to local schools — including Tigers, Yellow Jackets and Warriors yearbooks and athletic uniforms.

Notes McGuire: “Our goal is to bring that history back into our school.”