HUSKY HALL of FAME Class of 2021
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HUSKY HALL OF FAME Class of 2021 Jon Brockman, Men’s Basketball, 2005-2009 Claire Carter, Women’s Tennis, 2001-2004 Eric Drew, Men’s Tennis, 1996-1999 Gregg Alex, Ralph Bayard, Harvy Blanks, Lamar Mills & Carver Gayton Football, “1969 - The Five Who Dared” Jake Locker, Football, 2007-2010 Kristen Rivera, Softball, 2002-2005 Marques Tuiasosopo, Football, 1997-2000 Craig Waibel, Men’s Soccer, 1994-1998 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Graves Building Box 354070 • Seattle, Washington, 98195-4070 • www.GOHUSKIES.com Jon Brockman Men’s Basketball, 2005-2009 • Four-year starter from Snohomish, Wash., where he was a Mc- Donald’s All-American at Snohomish High School. • Still holds the Washington single-season (391) and career (1,283) rebounds records. Career total ranks No. 4 in Pac-12 Conference history, while his 724 boards in conference play are most ever. • 1,805 career points are fourth-most in Washington history. Had 96 career double-digit scoring games, second most in school history. • Led the Pac-10 Conference in rebounds three seasons in a row (2007-2009). Led the UW in rebounding and field-goal percentage for four seasons in a row, and also led Huskies in scoring in 2007-08. • First-team all-conference selection in 2007 and 2009, and a sec- ond-team selection in 2008. Also named first-team Pac-10 All-Fresh- man in 2005-06. • Won the Tom Hansen Pac-10 Medal as the UW’s top senior, male student-athlete for the 2008-09 year. Also three-time team MVP and four-time winner of the basketball team’s 101 Club Scholar-Athlete Award. • Three-time team captain who helped lead Washington to the NCAA Sweet 16 as a freshman and to the second round of the NCAA Tournament as a senior in 2009. • Selected by the Portland TrailBlazers in the second round (38th overall) of the 2009 NBA Draft. • Played for the Sacramento Kings and the Milwaukee Bucks for a total of three seasons before playing professionally in France and Germany. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Graves Building Box 354070 • Seattle, Washington, 98195-4070 • www.GOHUSKIES.com Claire Carter Women’s Tennis, 2001-2004 • Four-year letterwinner from Nottingham, England, U.K. • UW’s only four-time All-American, she burst onto the scene as a freshman in 2001 with a 32-9 singles record. 32 wins remain the UW single-season record. • Reached the NCAA singles round of 16 as a freshman to earn her first All-America honor. • Played in the NCAA Doubles Championships three times with three different partners, twice reaching the quarterfinals, in 2002 with Darija Klaic, and again in 2004 with Dea Sumantri. • Carter’s 93 career doubles wins remain a UW record, and she finished in the top-10 in the ITA doubles rankings in 2003 and 2004. • Washington has two NCAA Quarterfinal appearances in program history, and Carter was a freshman on the first team, in 2001, and a senior on the second team, in 2004. Prior to the 2001 team making the Quarterfinals, the Huskies had never gone past the first round. • Finished all four seasons ranked in the top-60 in singles, and was ranked 32nd in the final poll in both 2001 and 2004. • Went on to serve as an assistant coach at Washington in 2005-06, before moving to the Bay Area where she worked as a tennis pro. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Graves Building Box 354070 • Seattle, Washington, 98195-4070 • www.GOHUSKIES.com Eric Drew Men’s Tennis, 1996-1999 • Four-year letterman from Woodinville, Wash. • Became Washington’s first NCAA singles semifinalist in over 40 years when he made a run to the semis in 1999, earning All-America honors. • Also earned All-America honors in doubles as a senior, pairing with Robert Kendrick, as the two finished the season ranked 13th, the highest year-end doubles ranking in UW history. • Finished the 1999 season ranked 20th and also had year-end rank- ings in 1998 (33), 1997 (90), and 1996 (64). • Also made the semifinals of the 1998 Pac-10 Championships. • An All-Pac-10 first-team selection in 1999 and a second-teamer in 1998. • Still ranks 8th in school history with 86 career singles wins and 7th with 72 doubles wins. • Helped the Huskies qualify for the NCAA Championships all four years, and helped provide big challenges to home favorites UCLA (2-4) and Georgia (3-4) in the second rounds in 1998 and 1999. • Currently serves as a volunteer assistant coach for the Huskies under Matt Anger. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Graves Building Box 354070 • Seattle, Washington, 98195-4070 • www.GOHUSKIES.com Gregg Alex, Ralph Bayard, Harvy Blanks, Lamar Mills & Carver Gayton Football, “1969 - The Five Who Dared” • During the 1969 football season, four Black members of the Wash- ington football team – Gregg Alex, Ralph Bayard, Harvy Blanks, and Gregg Alex Lamar Mills – were suspended after refusing to pledge personal loyalty to head football coach Jim Owens. In the face of racial tension and adversity, the young men stood by their actions, believed in them- selves, and stayed committed to an intense personal sacrifice for the greater good. • Later that week, before departing for a road game at UCLA, remain- ing Black members of the team travel party got off the buses carrying the team to the airport as a show of solidarity. Ralph Bayard • Assistant coach Carver Gayton, a former UW letterman and first Black coach in program history, resigned to show solidarity with the players. • Under pressure from the public and campus groups, three of the four players were reinstated to the team just before the final game of the 1969 season, the Apple Cup vs. Washington State. In that game, Bayard caught two touchdown passes to lead the Huskies to their only Harvy Blanks victory in a 1-9 season. • Despite all of the adversity that they faced, all five of these men went on to distinguished careers outside of football. Bayard, who earned a PhD from the UW, eventually returned as an assistant athletic director in the 1990s. He has spent much of his time since then working in the child welfare field. Alex, who has run an addiction treatment facility, served 13 years as a team chaplain for the Husky football team and Lamar Mills was key in supporting UW players after the devastating injury to Curtis Williams in 2000. Mills became an attorney in Seattle, focusing on public defender work, while Blanks, who had been injured at the time of his suspension and who was never reinstated, earned a master’s degree from Cornell and became an actor, director and playwright. Gayton earned his bachelor’s, master’s and PhD from UW. He’s worked as an FBI agent and had a long career at Boeing, among many other pursuits. Gayton has been an advocate for education reform and has served as a keynote speaker on that subject all over the world. Carver Gayton UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Graves Building Box 354070 • Seattle, Washington, 98195-4070 • www.GOHUSKIES.com Jake Locker Football, 2007-2010 • Four-year letterman quarterback from Ferndale, Wash. Two-time team captain (2009, 2010) and two-time winner of the UW’s Guy Flaherty Most Inspirational Award. • Led Washington to its first winning season and bowl-game berth in in eight years in 2010, when Washington avenged a loss from early that same season with an upset win over Nebraska in the 2010 Holiday Bowl. • Played in and started 40 games as a Husky. Rushed for 1,939 career yards, easily the school record to this day. Also passed for 7,639 yards and 53 touchdowns. • His 7,639 career passing yards were second-most in UW history at the end of his career, and still rank No. 4. His 53 TD passes were also second-most at the time and currently fourth-most. • Ranks third in UW career history with 9,578 yards of total offense. • Rushed for 986 yards as a redshirt freshman in 2007, the school record for a QB. Also rushed for 29 career TDs, most ever by a quarterback and tied for fifth-most overall. • 2007 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. • Quarterbacked UW to memorable upset victories over USC in back-to-back seasons in 2009 (at Husky Stadium) and 2010 (in Los Angeles), as the Huskies won each on last-second field goals. • Selected by the Tennessee Titans as the eighth overall pick of the 2011 NFL Draft. Played four seasons for the Titans, starting a total of 23 games at quarterback, before retiring after the 2014 season. • Led Ferndale High to the 2005 2A state title, finishing the season with a 14-0 record. Passed for 1,603 yards and 25 touchdowns while rushing for 1,339 and 24 scores, earning Parade All-America. Also a standout baseball player who was drafted by the Angels in 2006. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Graves Building Box 354070 • Seattle, Washington, 98195-4070 • www.GOHUSKIES.com Kristen Rivera Softball, 2002-2005 • A four-year letterwinner from Perris, Calif. • Washington’s only four-time All-American, she was a second- team selection as a freshman in 2002 and a first-team honoree in 2003, 2004 and 2005. • Also a four-time, first-team All-Pac-10 selection and the four-time winner of the UW’s MVP award, sharing the honor with a teammate as a freshman. • Played in the NCAA Tournament in each of her four years, reach- ing the Women’s College World Series in both 2003 and 2004.