Hall of Fame
Monte Vre Non will go down as one of the greatest basketball players, not only during the junior college era, but in the institution’s overall athletic history.
Vre Non was a two-time first team all-ICAC conference and NJCAA regional selection in his two seasons playing for Hall of Fame Head Coach Doug Allred. As a freshman in the 1964-65 season, the 6-2 guard averaged 18.0 ppg and was a 1965 NJCAA Region I All-Star Team pick.
One year later, Vre Non averaged nearly 21 points a game and helped lead the Rebels to a Region I title and a berth into the 1966 NJCAA National Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Vre Non closed out his two-year Dixie College career with 913 points (19.4 ppg). He scored in double figures in 42 of 47 career games with 23 games of 20 or more points, including five games of 30 or more points, highlighted by a 41-point performance in a win vs. Snow College during the 1965-66 season.
Vre Non went on to play two seasons at Weber State in Ogden, Utah, where he played basketball and competed in track and field. In 1968, he broke the then-Weber State and Big Sky Conference record in the pole vault with a vault of 15-3.
After graduating from Weber State in 1968, Vre Non went on to earn his Master’s Degree in Education at Western Montana College (now Western Montana University) in 1970. While there he became known as “Coach” when he served as an assistant coach and helped lead three sports to championships.
A native of Reno, Nevada, Vre Non is hailed as one of Nevada’s all-time great athletes. He starred in as a three-sport letterman at Reno High School, where he helped lead the Huskies to state championships in both football and basketball, and was a pole vaulter on the RHS track and field team. He also earned first team 1964 All-America honors in basketball as a senior.
In 1999, Ver Non was inducted into the Reno High School Hall of Fame, and in 2016, he was inducted in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) Hall of Fame.
Vre Non passed away in Reno in 2013. He was the father of three children - sons Yale and Shane, and daughter Holli, and he has one granddaughter.
