PORT ANGELES — A husband-wife coaching team of Peter and Julie Stewart, basketball standouts Taylor Larson and Jeremiah Johnson, and the 2015 Northwest Athletic Conference champion Pirate women’s basketball team make up the sixth induction class entering the Pirate Athletics Hall of Fame this spring.
The 2025 Pirate Hall of Fame induction ceremony is set for 5 p.m. Saturday, May 31, at Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles.
“This induction class is all basketball and it’s going to be a great night,” said Rick Ross, associate dean for Athletics and Student Life. “The ‘Stewart Era’ of Pirate basketball was a very memorable time for all of us, Taylor was one of the most dominant post players in our women’s basketball history, Jeremiah won a championship and came back to work here to help us win seven more, and that 2015 team was so fun to watch with so many talented women — and, rumor has it, they’re all coming. What a reunion that’s going to be.”
The 2025 induction class is the sixth since Peninsula College Athletics launched a Pirate Hall of Fame in 2014. It’s held every two years. There is a complete list of inductees on the gopcpirates.com website.
Pirate fans wishing to attend the May 31 ceremony may reserve their space at pencol.edu/events. There is no admission fee.
Taylor Larson
Taylor Larson was recruited to Peninsula from Juneau, Alaska, in 2011 and played two years for the Pirates, re-writing the Pirate women’s basketball scoring records. The 5-11 post was arguably one of the most dominant post players in Peninsula College women’s basketball history. In her freshman year, she broke seven scoring records, including points in a game, 35, and points in a season with 470.
In 2012-13, she smashed virtually all of the Pirates’ scoring records, including points in a game (41), points in a season, 470; points in a career, 905; as well as nine other records for best average, attempts, and field goals made in games, season and career. She was named North Division MVP. Those back-to-back tournament appearances were the first for Coach Alison Crumb Rose, who began her career as head coach in 2009. Larson went on to play at Central Methodist University, eventually graduating from Eastern Washington University and returning to Juneau, where she works in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis, helping children with disabilities.
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson first put on a black and gold jersey in 2009-10. The Hunstville, Utah, product became the Peninsula College student body president and team captain in his sophomore year in 2010-11, and this time helped his Pirates break through to win the school’s first men’s basketball championship since 1970. That Pirate team went 22-7 and won four straight games in the championship tournament to bring the trophy back to Peninsula. Johnson graduated and transferred to New England College, where he and Danika Goodwin Johnson, who also played for the Pirates, were married and both played basketball for the Pilgrims. Upon graduation, Johnson was hired by Peninsula College to work in athletics and student life.
Peter Stewart
Peter Stewart accepted the position as Peninsula’s third head basketball coach after the school re-started athletics in 1997. Stewart came to PC in 2002 following coaching stints in Australia, Malaysia and Canada and a playing resume that included a professional career in Australia and a college career as captain of the University of North Dakota men’s basketball team.
He inherited a team that won only three games in 2002-03, but remarkably took the 2003-04 team to the college’s first-ever league championship, a 23-7 record and a third-place finish in the NWAC. In his eight years as head coach at Peninsula, he won 127 games, 90 percent of his home games and made six trips to the NWAC Tournament, placing second in 2006, third in both 2004 and 2007, and fourth in 2008 and 2010. He won three North Division championships and was twice named North Division Coach of the Year. One of those region championships was a historic night in Pirate sports history, when Peter and Julie Stewart had their teams at each end of the gym cutting down the nets. Stewart left Peninsula for the head coaching job at Minot State University, and has always been connected to the sport of basketball, in 2025 working as Director of Player Development at Wayzata Girls Basketball Association in Minneapolis.
Julie Stewart
Julie Stewart made her head coaching debut in 2003, one year after moving to the Peninsula with her husband Peter, who had taken the men’s basketball head coaching position.
She produced a winning season right out of the gate, going 13-12 in 2003-04 and the very next year recruited a lineup that gave Peninsula College its’ first-ever women’s basketball league championship, winning the North Division with a 12-4 record and going 21-10 overall.
She then stepped aside to focus on her family, returning three years later to the head coaching job for the 2008-09 season, when she went 13-3 to finish second in the North and 19-11 overall with another trip to the NWAC Tournament.
The Stewarts moved back to the Midwest in 2010, where Julie once again returned to her passion of coaching, this time at Bishop Ryan High School in Minot, N.D., from 2011-17, when the team won three state championships. She continues to have success at the high school level as head coach at Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minn., where she won the Lake Conference title in 2025 and she was named Section Coach of the Year.
2015 Women’s Basketball Team
The 2014-15 Peninsula Pirates women’s basketball team made history in March 2015, winning the college’s first-ever Northwest Athletic Conference women’s basketball championship. Coach Alison Crumb Rose’s Pirates went 13-1 to win Peninsula’s second North Division championship and then won four straight games at the Toyota Center in Kennewick to capture the NWAC title, beating Lane 85-75 in the championship game.
That Pirate team went 23-5, winning more games than any PC women’s team before them. It was the fourth straight year making the postseason under Rose and the Pirate women have made the playoffs every year since.
The 2014-15 Pirates included: Nika Criddle, Gabi Fenumiai, Savanna Gonzales, Amanda Hutchins, Zhara Laster, Cherish Moss (now head coach of three-time state champion Neah Bay), Cierra Moss, Whitney Nemelka, Madison Pilster, Porsche Santiago, Miranda Schmillen, Jackie Schubal, Imani Smith and Jonelle Staveland and assistant coaches Danika Johnson and Mike Knowles.
