It doesn’t seem like more than three decades have passed since Kele Fitzhugh was diving for loose balls, taking charges and hitting 20-footers to lead the Nevada Union boys basketball team to the school’s first CIF Sac-Joaquin Section championship. But indeed it has. The year was 1981, and at the time, Nevada Union was in the midst of its hoop “glory days” when the Miners, under the tutelage of coach Kermit Youn, captured five league championships and a pair of CIF crowns over an eight-year span. Fitzhugh, a three-year varsity guard, was the catalyst of the 1981 squad. In fact, …
























