Murray State Athletics Announces 2024 Hall of Fame Class
4/30/2024 10:08:00 AM | Baseball, Football, Men's Basketball, Women's Golf, Women's Soccer, Women's Volleyball, Hall of Fame
The 42nd class produced amazing achievements from 1967-2019
Murray State Athletics announced the 42nd class to the MSU Hall of Fame as a collection of Racer Greats are remembered for outstanding performances in
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The 2024 class includes: Daniel Calhoun (Baseball, 2006-09), Becca Lamb (Volleyball, 2007-10), Coach Velvet Milkman (Women's Golf, 1993-22), Ja Morant (Men's Basketball, 2017-19), Miyah Watford (Women's Soccer, 2017-19), Quincy Williams (Football, 2014-18) and Jack Wolf (Football, 1967-71).
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The 2024 class is highlighted by three former Racers that are at the highest level of their sport, Ja Morant, Quincy Williams and Jack Wolf.
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Morant's (2017-19) rise to the second selection of the 2019 NBA Draft to the Memphis Grizzlies occurred in two seasons with the Racers men's basketball team and Williams (2014-18) became the highest NFL draft selection from Murray State Football as the 35th pick also in 2019, and earned NFL All-Pro First Team honors in 2024 with the New York Jets.
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Wolf (1967-71) first was an All-Conference receiver for Racer Football before becoming one of the top horse racing executives in the world with Starlight Racing, a group that has produced major champions including 2018 Triple Crown winner "Justify" and 2020 Kentucky Derby champion "Authentic".
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The founder of the Murray State women's golf program, Velvet Milkman, becomes the 23rd coach to be inducted into the MSU Hall of Fame. Her stellar 29-year career saw her teams win 12 Ohio Valley Conference championships and produce 10 OVC Player of the Year honors. Coach Milkman's student-athletes earned seven NCAA appearances and in those 29 seasons, every one of the four-year student-athletes under Coach Milkman's care graduated and won a championship.
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Miyah Watford (2017-19) was part of the most successful period of Murray State women's soccer and was a key player that produced an OVC title and a pair of NCAA appearances. She was the 2019 OVC Player of the Year and finished third with the Racers with 31 career goals.
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Daniel Calhoun (2006-09) became one of only two Murray State winners of the OVC Pitcher of the Year award in 2009 and led the league in strikeouts in back-to-back seasons in 2008 and 2009. He set the MSU record with 14 wins in 2009 and was selected in MLB Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals and advanced to the franchise's Class-AA team in 2011.
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Becca Lamb (2007-10) enjoyed a brilliant career for the Racers in which she ranked in the top-10 in matches & sets played, attacks, kills and block assists. She was ninth player in program history to reach the coveted 1000-Kill Club and is ninth overall at MSU. Named All-OVC in 2009, Lamb was a four-time OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll winner.
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The induction of Ja Morant will occur in July at Racer Hoopalooza on a date to be announced. The rest of the class will be honored in January on a date yet to be determined.
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Murray State Hall of Fame Notes
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The 2024 class includes: Daniel Calhoun (Baseball, 2006-09), Becca Lamb (Volleyball, 2007-10), Coach Velvet Milkman (Women's Golf, 1993-22), Ja Morant (Men's Basketball, 2017-19), Miyah Watford (Women's Soccer, 2017-19), Quincy Williams (Football, 2014-18) and Jack Wolf (Football, 1967-71).
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The 2024 class is highlighted by three former Racers that are at the highest level of their sport, Ja Morant, Quincy Williams and Jack Wolf.
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Morant's (2017-19) rise to the second selection of the 2019 NBA Draft to the Memphis Grizzlies occurred in two seasons with the Racers men's basketball team and Williams (2014-18) became the highest NFL draft selection from Murray State Football as the 35th pick also in 2019, and earned NFL All-Pro First Team honors in 2024 with the New York Jets.
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Wolf (1967-71) first was an All-Conference receiver for Racer Football before becoming one of the top horse racing executives in the world with Starlight Racing, a group that has produced major champions including 2018 Triple Crown winner "Justify" and 2020 Kentucky Derby champion "Authentic".
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The founder of the Murray State women's golf program, Velvet Milkman, becomes the 23rd coach to be inducted into the MSU Hall of Fame. Her stellar 29-year career saw her teams win 12 Ohio Valley Conference championships and produce 10 OVC Player of the Year honors. Coach Milkman's student-athletes earned seven NCAA appearances and in those 29 seasons, every one of the four-year student-athletes under Coach Milkman's care graduated and won a championship.
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Miyah Watford (2017-19) was part of the most successful period of Murray State women's soccer and was a key player that produced an OVC title and a pair of NCAA appearances. She was the 2019 OVC Player of the Year and finished third with the Racers with 31 career goals.
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Daniel Calhoun (2006-09) became one of only two Murray State winners of the OVC Pitcher of the Year award in 2009 and led the league in strikeouts in back-to-back seasons in 2008 and 2009. He set the MSU record with 14 wins in 2009 and was selected in MLB Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals and advanced to the franchise's Class-AA team in 2011.
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Becca Lamb (2007-10) enjoyed a brilliant career for the Racers in which she ranked in the top-10 in matches & sets played, attacks, kills and block assists. She was ninth player in program history to reach the coveted 1000-Kill Club and is ninth overall at MSU. Named All-OVC in 2009, Lamb was a four-time OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll winner.
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The induction of Ja Morant will occur in July at Racer Hoopalooza on a date to be announced. The rest of the class will be honored in January on a date yet to be determined.
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Murray State Hall of Fame Notes
- Launched in 1965 under athletics director Coach Roy Stewart who led MSU Football from 1932-67. He was inducted in 1971.
- Inaugural class: Harlan Brodie (Football, 1927-1930), Joe Fulks (Basketball, 1941-42), Marshall Gage (Track & Field, 1957-61) and John Powless (Tennis, 1955-57).
- The 2024 class is the 42nd to be inducted and brings the total number enshrined at MSU to 188.
- The 2024 class of seven combined for 11 major OVC awards and the same number of All-OVC selections.
- Including the 2024 class, 48 people have been into the MSU Hall of Fame in the last six years of consecutive classes.
- Velvet Milkman is the 23rd head coach inducted. The last to be honored before Milkman was Tevester Anderson (MBB) in 2021.
- With Milkman, there will be five women's coaches in the MSU HOF including Nita Head (tennis 1967-82), Connie Keasling (tennis 1984-87, 1992-11), Dew Drop Rowlett (basketball 1933-35) and Margaret Simmons (track & field 1968-91).
- Miyah Watford's induction is the fourth from women's soccer, one of MSU's newest programs that first fielded a team in 2000. She follows Rebekah Clay (2018), Tara Isbell (2020) and Harriet Withers (2023).
- Morant is the third MSU hall of famer to be inducted while an active member of the NBA, following Popeye Jones and Cameron Payne.
- Morant is the 17th Racer that was an NBA Draft selection to be inducted into the MSU HOF.
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