Hall Adds 10
For Friends of Iowa State Athletics October / November 2006 Inductions Reaches 70% for fi rst time Hall Adds 10 Athletes’ Grad Rate Tops Undergrads Iowa State student-athletes recorded a higher Champions, pioneers, coaching graduation rate than undergrads for the fi rst time legends & administrators honored (Photos of inductees on page 5) in seven years and only the fourth time in school history. It is also noteworthy that, for the fi rst time ever, seven-out-of-ten Cyclone student-athletes he 2006 class of inductees into Iowa State’s Athletics Hall graduated. of Fame includes champions, pioneers, coaching legends “Our most basic goal in the Iowa State athletics Tand administrators, all of whom helped create modern-day department is to educate our athletes,” Athletics intercollegiate athletics competition as we know it today. Director Jamie Pollard said. “It’s fundamental that The inductees included Beth Bader (golf), Jon Brown (track), we continue to provide the resources for Cyclones John Crawford (basketball), Barry Hill (football), Russ Hoffman to achieve their academic dreams. (gymnastics), Jerry McNertney (baseball), Hugo Otopalik (wrestling & Pollard also saluted the work of the student- golf), Keith Sims (football), Clay Stapleton (football & administration) athletes. and Winifred Tilden (administration). “The credit goes to the men and women in our Some inductees, like Barry Hill, used the ceremony as a reason to return program, who have demonstrated the ability to to campus. “It’s the greatest honor of my life,” said Hill, an All-America handle the scholastic demands of one of the world’s defensive back who made his fi rst visit to ISU in 32 years.
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