About
We created the Suzanne Manlet Foundation (SMF) to honor Suzanne Manlet. Suzane was a Ventura County icon - coach, teacher, player, mentor, friend to everyone she ever met.
The Suzanne Manlet Foundation annually sponsors scholarships for two
Hall of Fame Athletes of the Year. The Athletes are invited
to submit essay applications with their information forms when they are
nominated to represent their schools at the Hall of Fame Induction
Banquet every year.
The initial funding is $1000 per student, which will be renewed each
year for a total of four years. The recipients are required to
maintain a 2.0 GPA and provide proof of registration for each year
(through sophomore, junior and senior years).
The Suzanne Manlet Foundation is a memorial to the legendary CIF
Championship Softball coach at Simi Valley High School. The
generosity of the Foundation reflects Suzanne’s ebullient spirit and
sense of purpose. More than wins and losses, she instilled in her
players a work ethic and sense of mission that superseded the actual
games. Her Foundation works like Suzanne did – to impact the
lives of young people in the most positive way it can.
Suzanne Manlet was posthumously inducted into the Ventura County Sports
of Hall of Fame in 2004.