Saturday, May 13, 2023

2023 TCU Athletics Hall of Fame Class Announced

 
 
The 2023 TCU Athletics and TCU Block T Association 2023 Hall of Fame induction class includes the 1983 women's golf team, Scott Atchison '99 (baseball), Ricky "Tank" Carder '11 (football), Kishelle Paul-Guy '09 (track & field), Matthew Purke '13 (baseball), Sarah Scherer-Oursland '13 (rifle) and Carrie von Uhlit '10 (equestrian) as the 55th class. David Medanich '79 (men's soccer) is the Vintage Category honoree. Longtime athletics trainer Chris Hall '83 is the Special Contributor recipient.
 
The class will be inducted on Thursday, September 28, in a ceremony at TCU's Brown-Lupton University Union. They will be recognized at TCU's September 30 home football game versus West Virginia.

The 1983 women's golf team, which consisted of head coach Fred Warren, Marci Bozarth, Kris Hanson, Anne Kelly, Jenny Lidback, Rita Moore and Rae Rothfelder-Deal, won the 1983 NCAA women's golf National Championship that was held in Athens, Georgia. The team became the first TCU women's program to win a national championshipt. Bozarth, Lidback and Moore were named All-Southwest Conference honorees. Bozarth and Lidback earned All-American honors.
 
Atchison was a standout pitcher for the Horned Frogs from 1995-99, earning All-Southwest Conference honors in 1995 and 1996 and being named All-Western Athletic Conference in 1999. He led TCU in wins and innings pitched in 1995 and 1999, when he also led the squad in earned run average. He earned the program's Outstanding Pitcher Award in his final season with the Frogs. Atchison was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 2004-15, playing for the Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and Cleveland Indians.
 
Carder was a three-time All-Mountain West Conference selection (2009-11). He was named MWC Defensive Player of the Year in 2010 and 2011. He is a two-time All-American honoree, being named to six different All-America teams in 2010 and a pair of All-America squads in 2011. Carder was selected in the fifth round of the NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills in 2012. He played five seasons in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns (2012-16), where he tallied 50-plus tackles in 78 games played.
 
Guy was a three-time All-American at TCU, where she ran primarily third-leg for the Horned Frogs in the 4x400 relay event. She earned All-American honors in that event in 2006 (outdoor) and 2007 and 2009 (indoor). Guy was the Mountain West Conference Indoor Champion in 60-meter hurdles in 2006 and 2008. She was a four-time MWC Outdoor Champion in the 100-meter hurdles, coming in first-place from 2006-09. Guy owns the school record in the 400-meter hurdles (outdoor) with a time of 57.70, which she ran in Des Moines, Iowa, on May 26, 2007. Her 4x400 relay team owns the school record with a time of 3:30.00 (2006).
 
Purke is TCU's all-time leader in single-season wins, totaling 16 victories in 2010. His 142 strikeouts that season ranks second-most in school history. He earned All-Mountain West Conference First Team honors, in addition to being named the MWC Freshman of the Year. A 2010 All-American, Purke was the National Freshman of the Year that season. Despite being drafted 14th in the first round in the MLB Draft in 2009, Purke opted to attend TCU. He was drafted in the third round by the Washington Nationals in 2011. Purke made his major league debut on May 20, 2016, with the Chicago White Sox.
 
Scherer-Oursland was an eight-time All-American for the rifle team, earning the honor in air rifle and smallbore all four years as a Horned Frog. She fired a perfect score of 600 in air rifle as a junior; at the time, she was the second female to do so and fourth athlete overall. She helped lead TCU to team national championships in 2010 and 2012, when she was a national champion in the smallbore event. Following her career at TCU, she was a two-time Olympian in 2012 and 2016.
 
Von Uhlit becomes the first TCU equestrian athlete to be named to the Hall of Fame, following a decorated career. She is TCU's all-time leader in wins (89), victories in Reining (49), overall winning percentage (.739) and single-event winning percentage (.778 in Horsemanship). She posted a program record 24 Most Outstanding Performer (MOP) awards, which included a school-record 17 MOP's in Reining. With TCU in its second year of collegiate equestrian competition, von Uhlit helped propel the equestrian team to a Western National Championship over Georgia in 2008.
 
Medanich was a three-time All-Southwest Conference player for the Horned Frogs from 1977-79. He led the Frogs in scoring four of his five seasons, while netting a school-record 93 career goals. A five-year captain, Medanich started every game in which he played at TCU. He joins his father, Frank Medanich '44, who as a football player was inducted into TCU's Hall of Fame in 1993.
 
Hall served as the longest-tenured Athletic Trainer within the TCU Athletics department for 30 years. He became TCU's Director of Sports Medicine in 2003, becoming the fifth head athletic trainer in school history. A 1983 graduate of TCU, Hall was primarily responsible for athletic injury recognition and care, treatment and rehabilitation for the men's basketball team. He also was coordinator of all athletic training support services for the athletics department. Prior to his retirement from TCU in 2015, Hall worked with and covered every sport that competed for the University.

 

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