The 2005 Ohleyer Award was granted to Tyrone McGraw, a senior at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco. Tyrone was presented his award at the Commissioner’s Dinner in November.
The Brian Ohleyer Award is a prestigious award established in memory of the outstanding young Olympian Brian Ohleyer who lost his life in a traffic accident in 1996. This is the 5th year the Olympic Club Foundation has awarded the Ohleyer Award to an outstanding Bay Area high school student who best demonstrates the ideals exemplified by Brian’s life, an individual whose superior athletic and academic skills were matched by personal qualities of leadership and community service. Past Ohleyer Award Recipients are Jeffrey Deal, Galileo HS, Tony Dinh, Sacred Heart Cathedral HS, Natalie Joffe, Marin Catholic HS, and Sam Walsh, Serra HS.
Tyrone was chosen from an elite group of students recommended by their school administration from over 125 public and private high schools in the Bay Area. The pool of candidates all had excellent academic records, played a sport at an elite level and found time to contribute in some meaningful way to his or her community.
Tyrone is regularly featured in the Chronicle High School sports section for his accomplishments as one of the best running backs in the State and leader of the relay team that won the 2005 CCS championship. This past summer he qualified for the USA Track and Field Junior Olympics. He has been invited to the elite Nike Football Training Camp and this season he scored nine touchdowns in a three game stretch. A natural leader, Tyrone is the captain of the football and track teams.
It is clear from the faculty that he is universally loved and respected at Riordan. His school counselor says that “Tyrone is a person who has an immediate positive impact in everything he gets involved with.” Tyrone challenges himself in every aspect of life. He has earned a 3.9 GPA with a curriculum full of advanced placement courses and he was selected in a competitive application process to participate in two summer internships at UCSF.
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