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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