“I’m very excited to welcome these men into the class of 2024 for the Sports Hall of Fame,” said Alumni Office Director Carlos Bravo, ‘86, who was the Master of Ceremony at the event. “Each of these gentlemen represents the best of the best in their respective sport and exemplified the magis while student-athletes at the school.”
The Belen Alumni Association of Jesuit Schools from Cuba and Miami and Belen Jesuit instituted the Belen Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. Members are chosen on the basis of their playing ability, sportsmanship, character, and their contribution to their team or teams and to the game they participated in for el Colegio de Belén, Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, el Colegio de Dolores, Sagua, Electromecánica, and Montserrat.
Athletic achievements at Belen are important, but accomplishments after graduation are also considered. Coaches are chosen based on their coaching, managerial or executive ability, sportsmanship, character and contribution to their organization or organizations and the sport they coached.
For more information and to nominate a Belen alumnus for this honor, click here.
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the School property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit sits on a 30-acre site in western Dade County, only minutes away from downtown Miami.