WACO, Texas – Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, arguably the most decorated football player in the history of the program, illuminated the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame 2022 featuring eight pre-school students from six sports. different.
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Griffin’s latest signings include Jeremy Alcorn (men’s golfer), Taylor Barnes Fallon (volleyball), Demond “Tweety” Carter (men’s basketball), Doak Field (soccer), Gary Kafer (track & field), Josh Ludy (baseball) and Quentin Iglehart-Summers (track & amp; field).
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It will also be recognized as being the former Baylor papers and decorated by Air Force pilots Col. Tyree Newton (baseball) and Col. Wilbur Mehaffey (football), the latest addition to the “B” Association Wall of Honor.
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The 2022 Hall of Fame party is scheduled for 6:30 pm Friday, November 18, inside the Tax Room of the Tax Building on the Baylor University campus. Tickets are $ 50 per person, with table sponsors also available in green rates ($ 600) and gold ($ 800) and can be purchased by contacting Group “B” 254-710-3045 or by email at tammy_hardin@baylor.edu.
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Founded in the 1960s, the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame recognizes and honors individuals whose participation and contributions have strengthened and strengthened the university’s athletics program. Student-players are required to wait 10 years after completing their eligibility before being appointed to the Hall of Fame.
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Since the first class in 1960 including coach Floyd “Uncle Jim” Crow and Baseball’s Ted Lyons, 257 honorees have been chosen or already engraved in the Hall of Fame, while Newton and Mehaffey became the 30th in the 31st. added to the wall of honor. The winners of the Hall of Fame and Wall of Honor will also be honored at McLane Stadium during the Baylor-TCU football match on Saturday, November 19th.
In second place in the history of the program with five individual victories, Alcorn earned the first team of the All-Big 12 and the prestigious All-America honored to be the second tier of 2005. That year, he was twice named Big 12 Golfer of the Month, won three medals. honor, with an average of 71,763-strokes which was rated the second best in school history at that time.
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Fifteen years later, he is still one of the all-time leaders in the top-10 finish (17), top five finish (11) and average points (73.19). After a career that included two wins on the Adams Tour, Alcorn has been a college assistant for the last eight seasons at Texas Tech, Coastal Carolina, and Liberty, leading the flames to third place in the NCAA Championship this year.
As part of the historic volleyball season of 2009 that included the first Sweet 16 program and their first victory over a team in the top 10, Barnes Fallon had 50 assists, 20 assists and eight kills. beat the Bears’ 3-1 victory over Cal to create the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Along with her friend and 2020 Hall of Fame inducte Anna Breyfogle Lyon, she was one of the first All-Americans program, earning the prestigious AVCA 2009.
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Twice as an all-state and first-team All-Big 12 selected as a planner, Barnes Fallon still holds Baylor’s professional assist record (5,120) and broke the school and record of the 12 Big with 205 career services. In addition to leading the team in acs and four-year direct assistance, she is one of only two players in program history with 4,000 professional assistants and 1,000 digs (1,135).
A bachelor of McDonalds All-American basketball, Carter played six years of basketball at Reserve (La.) Christian School, scoring a national record of 7,457 points, leading his team to four state championships. Baylor, broke the list of the top 10 in the career with 1,437 points and is in the top five all-time professional 3-pointers made (274), assisted (474) and stole (153).
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After averaging 10.6 points for NIT 2009, Tweety averaged 15.0 points and a Big 12-lead 5.9 assists as high, helping the Bears to their then-school record of 28 wins and their first appearance in Elite Eight while earning a team Fourth All-America is honored. After 12 years of professionalism, he was appointed Baylor Basketball Development Manager in March.
Captain of Baylor’s 10-2 Southwest team in the 1980s, Field was a four-year starter in a cohesive team that included Lester Ward and All-American Mike Singletary. Acquiring All-SWC honors that season, Doak was the team leader in the 1979 Peach Bowl and 1980 Cotton Bowl and is ranked seventh in all-time performance (330) and third in assists (166).
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Selected to play in the Hula and Japan Bowl all-star games, Field was taken in the seventh round of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. The former statewide player from Burnet High School (Texas) played for one year with Cardinal St. Louis and three USFL seasons he spent with the Chicago Blitz and Arizona Wranglers before suffering an injury ending his career.
Griffin set 54 in Baylor school records, passing 10,366 yards and 78 touchdowns running for 2,254 yards and 33 TDs. Recovering from a knee injury early in his career, RG3 won the 2011 Heisman Trophy as a fourth-round pick and led the 10-3 Bears team to their first victory in 19 years, passing 4,293 yards and 37 touchdowns.
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Before that, he won the Big 12 and finished third in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Track & amp; Field champion who is a former first-semester student. No. 2 overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, Griffin earned the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year honors by leading the Washington Redskins in playoff games and playing eight seasons in the league before becoming a football analyst at ESPN College.
After winning the restoration championship and the Texas Relays at Gatesville High School, Kafer chose Baylor for the 50 scholarships he received from one of the top in the country. New in 1972, Kafer became South West’s first 7-foot jumper, clearing a 7-0 ¼ to win the Fort Worth Coach Games.
