Robert "Pudgy" Hunt - Masters Athlete

Robert “Pudgy” Hunt, a 1957 Knappa High School graduate held the Oregon high school all-time career scoring record with 2,584 points until this year, when it was broken by Kevin Love of Lake Oswego High School. “Pudgy” also still shares the class 2A Boys high school tournament record for an individual game with 45 points. He was an All-Tournament selection in 1955, 1956 and 1957.  In 1955 Knappa won the boys basketball Championship.
Hunt went on to Gonzaga University where he was team captain and the leading scorer for the 1961-62 season averaging 20 points per game. Following college, “Pudgy” was a member of several AAU State Championship teams including Claudia’s and the MAC Club.  He also began participating in the AAU Masters program with the his own East Bank Saloon team which has 15 AAU National Championships making the All-Tourney team 5 times and also a tournament MVP selection in 1988.

He was also involved in National Masters Basketball, the World Masters Games and the World Senior Games.  Hunt  is known as one of the  star players on one of the best teams in national and international masters (age-group) basketball competition.   Internationally, the East Bank Saloon team has one nine gold medals in Toronto, Brisbane, Melbourne, Edmonton, Buenos Aires, Las Vegas, Costa Rica, Solvania and Brazil. Silver medals were one in Portland and Uraguay.