Dustin Peace, a Class of 2000 graduate of Flowing Wells High School who later went on to coach at the school and Canyon del Oro, is one of five people who will be inducted into the Caballeros’ Hall of Fame in October.
The Flowing Wells 1999 spirit coed spirit line state championship team will also be honored in the ceremony that is Oct. 4 at the school.
Peace played linebacker at NAU for two seasons after earning all-city honors at Flowing Wells. A neck injury ended his career with the Lumberjacks during the 2001 season, and he returned to Tucson to work on his degree and begin his coaching career.
He joins his dad Damian Peace in the Flowing Wells Hall of Fame. The elder Peace, a receiver during his playing days, was inducted in 2015 as part of the 1975 state championship team under Larry Hart.
“I am honored to join so many great athletes and coaches in the Flowing Wells Sports Hall of Fame,” Peace mentioned on a social media post. “I am very grateful to the committee and all my coaches and teammates that molded me in my time at Flowing Wells. I absolutely loved high school and my coaches and teachers at Flowing Wells are the reason I have followed their same path.
“My dad’s 1975 state championship football team was inducted and I was always saddened that I couldn’t attend the Friday event because of coaching. I am so excited to join my father. He was always so prideful of Flowing Wells. … Congrats to all the other inductees I am looking forward to the October event.”
Peace coached under his Flowing Wells coach, Pat Nugent, as an assistant at CDO before becoming the head coach in 2009. He won the state championship that season with a 14-0 record. He resigned his position with the Dorados in January after leading the program to another state title with a 14-0 record.
Peace was 119-50 in his CDO tenure. He is one of six coaches in Tucson with at least two state titles. Jeff Scurran earned three titles at Sabino, and Richard Sanchez of Sunnyside, John Mallamo of Tucson, Ollie Mayfield of Tucson and Bob Smith of CDO each had two.
The other individuals who will be honored with a Flowing Wells Hall of Fame induction:
Richard Galvez (Class of 1968): An all-state quarterback when he was a senior who set four Tucson city records at the time — total offense (1,710 yards), passing yards (1,550), most touchdown passes in one game (five) and most passing yards in one game (317).
Frank Galvez (Class of 1969): Richard’s brother who became one of the city’s best defensive ends and punters in football and point guards in basketball by the time he graduated.
Aaron Briggs (Class of 2007): Earned a wrestling state championship as a senior at 140 pounds. He became a standout wrestler at North Michigan University and won a qualifying tournament to get into the U.S. wrestling team trials in 2012, finishing sixth at 163 pounds.
Lyndsay Leikem (Class of 2013): Member of the famed Flowing Wells Leikem family, Lyndsay led the Lady Caballeros’ basketball team to a sectional championship and eventually to the state championship game as a senior. Flowing Wells finished with a 29-5 record while she averaged 14.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 3.6 blocks and 3.0 steals per game. She shot 52 percent from the field as a senior and 40 percent from 3-point range. She went on to play at Indiana before ending her career with Kansas City-Missouri as a graduate student. Her father Ken Leikem, who has worked as a Tucson police detective, set the city passing yardage record at Flowing Wells, 4,452 yards, during his days as a Caballeros quarterback from 1980-82. Lyndsay’s twin daughters, Kirsten and Tristany, were inducted into the Flowing Wells Hall of Fame in 2018. They won four state doubles tennis championships, the first in Arizona history to accomplish that feat. Both played college tennis at Rhode Island and graduated with honors.
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