WACO, Texas – Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, the most decorated footballer in the history of the program, confirms the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame 2022 class which includes eight former sports students from six different sports.
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Joining Griffin in the newly released team will be Jeremy Alcorn (men’s golf), Taylor Barnes Fallon (volleyball), Demond “Tweety” Carter (men’s basketball), Doak Field (football), Gary Kafer (track & field), Josh Ludy (baseball) and Quentin Iglehart-Summers (track & field).
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Also known were former Baylor correspondents and Air Force pilots decorated Col. Tyree Newton (baseball) and the late Col. Wilbur Mehaffey (football), as an addition to the “B” Association Wall of Honor.
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The 2022 Hall of Fame party is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 18, in the Fashion Building Banquet Room at the Baylor University campus. Tickets are $ 50 per person, with a support table also available at the green ($ 600) and gold ($ 800) level and can be purchased by contacting the “B” Association at 254-710-3045 or by email at tammy_hardin@baylor.edu.
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Organized in 1960, the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame recognizes and honors the participants and contributions enriching and strengthening the university sports program. Student-athletes are required to wait 10 years after completing their eligibility before being selected to the Hall of Fame.
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Starting with the first class of 1960 included coach Floyd “Uncle Jim” Crow and baseball’s Ted Lyons, 257 dignitaries nominated or even placed in the Hall of Fame, while Newton and Mehaffey became the 30th addition to the Wall of Honor. Recipients of the Hall of Fame and the Wall of Honor will also be honored at the McLane Stadium during the Baylor-TCU football match on Saturday, May 19th.
Ranked second in program history with five individual wins, Alcorn won first All-Big 12 and honorable All-American honors as the second winner in 2005. That year, he was twice named the Big 12 Golfer of the Month, winning three medals. honors, and he had an average of 71,763-strokes which stood as the second-best in school history at the time.
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Fifteen years later, he still ranks among the regular leaders in the top ten (17), top five (11) and scoring averages (73.19). Following a professional career that included two wins on the Adams Tour, Alcorn has been the assistant coach of the college for the past eight seasons in Texas Tech, Coastal Carolina, and Liberty, leading the Flames to their third straight straight NCAA Championship this year.
Part of the history of the 2009 volleyball season included a first-team Sweet 16 bet and the first win over a top-10 team, Barnes Fallon had 50 assists, 20 diggers and eight assassins in the Bears’ 3-1 offensive win over Eight Seeds. in the second match of the NCAA Tournament. Along with her colleague and 2020 Hall of Fame inductee Anna Breyfogle Lyon, she was one of the first All-Americans in the program, earning a prestigious honor from AVCA in 2009.
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A two-time all-region and first-team All-Big 12 setter, Barnes Fallon still holds the Baylor record for service assist (5,120) and broke the school and Big 12 record with 205 career aces. In addition to leading the team in the ranks and assisting the four-year straight, he is just one of two players in the program history with four thousand assists and one thousand digs (1,135).
Baylor basketball first McDonalds All-American, Carter played varsity basketball for six years at Reserve (La.) Christian School, scored a world record 7,457 points, and led his team to four world championships. In Baylor, he broke the top-10 job description with 1,437 points and levels in the top five all-time work 3-points scored (274), helpful (474) and steals (153).
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After averaging 16 points for the last NIT in 2009, Tweety averaged 15.0 points and Big 12-leading 5.9 assists as a senior, helping the Bears to that time a school-record winning twenty-eight and their first Elite Eight appearance earning fourth team All. -America is honorable. After 12 years of pro career, he was named Baylor basketball’s director of player development in March.
Captain of the Baylor football 10-2 Southwest Conference team competition in 1980, Field was the first four years in a series of corpses consisting of Lester Ward and All-American Mike Singletary. Gaining consensus All-SWC honors that season, Doak was the team leader in the 1979 Peach Bowl and 1980 Cotton Bowl and is in seventh-all-time performance (330) and third in assist (166).
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Chosen to play in Hula and Japan Bowl all-star matches, Field was drawn in the seventh game of the 1981 NFL Draft against the Philadelphia Eagles. A former boxer from Burnet (Texas) High School played one year with St. Louis.
Griffin set or tied fifty-four school records in Baylor, exceeding 10,366 yards and 78 touchdowns running 2,254 yards and 33 TDs. To overcome a knee injury early in his career, RG3 won the 2011 Heisman Trophy as a junior for the fourth year and led the 10-3 Bears ’team to its first bowl win in 19 years, surpassing 4,293 yards and 37 touchdowns.
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Earlier, she won the Big 12 title and finished third in the 400-meter dash at the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Track & amp; Field Competition as a New Year’s Eve. Second in the 2012 NFL Draft tournament, Griffin earned the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award for leading the Washington Redskins to the tournament and played eight seasons in the league before becoming a college football commentator with ESPN.
After winning back-to-back competitions and Texas Relays titles at Gatesville High School, Kafer nominated Baylor over the 50 scholarships he was awarded as one of the top athletes in the country. As a newcomer in 1972, Kafer became Southwest Conference’s first 7-foot high jumper, winning 7-0 ¼ to win the Fort Worth Coaches Indoor Games.
