SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - The West Coast Conference is slated to induct its 14th Hall of Honor class on Saturday, March 9, at the Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nine individuals, one from each member institution, will be recognized in a special ceremony as part of the 2024 Credit Union 1 West Coast Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament.
 
For San Francisco, Luis "Lou" Sagastume, a national champion with the San Francisco men's soccer team during his time on the Hilltop and former coach of the Dons, was selected by the WCC for this year's class.
 
The 2024 WCC Hall of Honor class includes Gonzaga's Cheska Fairbanks (women's cross country), LMU's Anthony Ireland (men's basketball), Pacific's John Dunning (women's volleyball head coach), Pepperdine's Dwayne Polee (men's basketball), Portland's Rob Conner (men's cross country head coach), Saint Mary's Omar Samhan (men's basketball), San Diego's Stan Washington (men's basketball), San Francisco's Luis "Lou" Sagastume (men's soccer) and Santa Clara's Julie Ertz (women's soccer).
 
For a full list of WCC Hall of Honor inductees click here.
 
Luis "Lou" Sagastume Bio:
 Luis "Lou" Sagastume was born in Guatemala in 1944, but grew up in Northern California as he graduated from Lincoln High School in San Francisco. Upon his arrival at USF, he suited up as midfielder for the men's soccer team from 1964 to 1967. In his junior and senior years, Sagastume was selected team captain and earned Second Team All-American honors in 1966, the same year that the Dons won the NCAA Men's Soccer National Championship. He then proceeded to graduate from USF in 1968 and was inducted into the San Francisco Athletics Hall of Fame in 1974.
 
In 1968, Sagastume was signed to the Oakland Clippers of the North American Soccer League, but did not play any first team games with them.

Looking at his coaching career, he began his path as a head coach for the St. Ignatius College Preparatory boys' soccer program in 1964. Fast forward a few years to 1967, Sagastume returned to the Hilltop to coach USF's junior varsity soccer program. Over his two seasons with the Dons, he finished with a 30-2 record. In 1974, he got a job as an assistant coach at Cal State Chico, where he then worked for four seasons. After his time in Chico, Sagastume became a player-coach with the San Antonio Thunder of the NASL in 1975.

In 1977, Sagastume returned to St. Ignatius to coach two more seasons. While he was coaching at St. Ignatius, San Francisco State then hired Sagastume as head coach for their men's soccer program in 1978. Over the next two seasons, he compiled a 22-8 record at SFSU.  In 1980, Sagastume took a new job as head coach of the United States Air Force Academy men's soccer program, where he went on to have a 303–196–43 record with the Falcons before retiring in April 2007. 
 
Later that year (2007), he became head coach of the men's soccer program at St. Mary's High School in Colorado Springs, Colo.
 
In 2009, Sagastume was inducted into the San Francisco State Athletics Hall of Fame. More recently, he received the United Soccer Coaches Latino Award of Excellence in 2020.

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