SIR Bidwell Branch 110 Luncheon March 27, 2023
Mike Sherrard.
Mike Sherrard was our luncheon speaker on March 27th.
Mike graduated from Chico High School where he was a multi-sport
athlete, lettering in football, basketball, baseball and track.
He then graduated from UCLA in 1986 with a BA in History.
He entered UCLA as an unrecruited walk-on athlete and left
the school with UCLA records for most catches and yards in
a career as well as most catches in a season in UCLA history.
He then played professional football as a wide receiver in
the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, San
Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, and Denver Broncos.
Sherrard's mother Cherrie, ran the 80-yard hurdles in the
1964 Summer Olympics, where she was a teammate of Bob Hayes.
She won a gold medal in the 1967 Pan American Games.
His father Robert, played college basketball, semi-pro baseball
and was a college professor at California State University.
After retirement, Mike worked as a fundraiser for Autism Speaks.
In 2010, he was hired as the wide receivers coach at Oaks Christian
School. In 2014, he was the offensive coordinator at Oaks Christian.
In 2015, he was hired as the wide receivers coach at Newbury Park
High School.