IU Athletics introduced its 2024 Corridor of Fame class on Friday afternoon and it consists of former IU basketball All-American Victor Oladipo.
Right here’s the complete launch from IU Athletics:
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana – Indiana College Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Scott Dolson introduced immediately that IU Athletics will welcome six new members to its Athletics Corridor of Fame. The six people comprise the thirty ninth class, bringing the roster of inductees to 255.
Kayla Bashore (Subject Hockey, 2002-05), Kevin Berry (Males’s Swimming, 1964-66), Danny O’Rourke (Males’s Soccer, 2001-04), Victor Oladipo (Males’s Basketball, 2011-13), Max Skirvin (Radio Broadcaster, Contributor 1950-2000), and Jody Yin (Girls’s Tennis, 1991-94) might be formally inducted on the annual Corridor of Fame dinner on Friday, Sept. 20, and might be acknowledged at halftime of the Indiana-Charlotte soccer recreation at Memorial Stadium the next day.
“These six people have contributed enormously to the status and impression of Indiana College Athletics, and we’re excited to welcome this elite group to our Corridor of Fame,” Dolson stated. “Contemplating the historical past of success of our student-athletes and applications, it comes as no shock that now we have an inordinate variety of highly-deserving people to contemplate yearly. That was no totally different this 12 months, and we sit up for celebrating this very deserving group this fall.”
The IU Athletics Corridor of Fame, established in 1982 by the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics at the side of the Varsity Membership and the I-Affiliation, acknowledges people who’ve made distinctive contributions to the status of IU each on and off the sector of competitors.
Kayla Bashore (Subject Hockey, 2002-05)
Probably the most achieved and adorned participant in IU Subject Hockey historical past, Bashore was the 2005 Huge Ten Participant of the 12 months, a three-time First-Crew All-Huge Ten honoree, and a two-time All-American (First Crew in 2005, Second Crew in 2003). Throughout her senior season, she helped lead this system to a school-record 17 wins, a runner-up end within the Huge Ten, and to the second spherical of the NCAA Event. Practically 20 years faraway from her faculty taking part in days, she stays outstanding in this system’s all-time document e-book, rating among the many all-time leaders in objectives (sixth), factors (seventh) and pictures (2nd). After commencement, Bashore spent eight years with Crew USA and was a member of each the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Olympic groups. Bashore returned to IU in 2019 as this system’s head coach and has led IU Subject Hockey for the previous 5 seasons.
Kevin Berry (Males’s Swimming, 1964-66)
From his teenage years on, Berry was a star at each degree of swimming. Hailing from Australia, Berry first certified for the Olympics in 1960 as a 14 year-old and positioned sixth within the 200 butterfly. He returned to the Olympics 4 years later and captured a gold medal in the identical occasion in addition to a bronze within the medley relay for Australia. His gold-medal profitable 200 butterfly time of two:06.6 established a brand new world document that stood for the subsequent three years. That was certainly one of 12 world information that Berry set within the numerous butterfly occasions between 1961-68. Along with these world information and Olympic medals, Berry was additionally a three-time gold medalist on the Commonwealth Video games and a six-time winner on the Australian Championships. Throughout his three years at IU, Berry swam for legendary Coach James ‘Doc’ Counsilman and was a three-time All-American, highlighted by a runner-up end within the 200 butterfly in 1966. He was inducted into the Worldwide Swimming Corridor of Fame in 1980.
Danny O’Rourke (Males’s Soccer, 2001-04)
Probably the most achieved gamers in IU Males’s Soccer historical past, O’Rourke received the 2004 MAC Hermann Trophy Award because the nationwide participant of the 12 months after main the Hoosiers to a second straight NCAA title. O’Rourke served because the captain of IU’s 2003 and 2004 NCAA Championship groups and anchored an IU protection that recorded 22 shutouts throughout these championship seasons. Throughout his IU profession, he was a two-time First-Crew All-American, a three-time First-Crew All-Huge Ten honoree, and was named the 2004 NSCAA Scholar Athlete of the 12 months. The Hoosiers went 69-15-9 throughout his profession, received six Huge Ten group championships (4 common season, two postseason), and superior to a few Faculty Cups to go together with the 2 nationwide titles. Following his faculty profession, O’Rourke was the fourth general decide within the 2005 Main League Tremendous Draft and began 186 of 200 matches throughout an 11-year skilled profession. He returned to IU in 2018 and served as an assistant coach on the Males’s Soccer employees from 2018-21.
Victor Oladipo (Males’s Basketball, 2011-13)
Oladipo turned IU Basketball’s first Nationwide Participant of the 12 months in 20 years when he earned the distinction from the Sporting Information following a exceptional junior season in 2012-13. Oladipo averaged 13.6 factors, 6.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and a couple of.2 steals throughout that season whereas main IU to its first Huge Ten championship in 11 seasons and its first No. 1 NCAA Event seed in twenty years. Along with his Nationwide Participant of the 12 months honor, Oladipo was additionally named co-Nationwide Defensive Participant of the 12 months and was a consensus First-Crew All-American. Following his junior season Oladipo departed for the NBA, the place he was the second general decide by the Orlando Magic within the 2013 NBA Draft. He’s spent the final 11 years within the NBA with 5 totally different franchises, averaging 16.9 factors/recreation throughout his profession. His finest season so far was in 2017-18, when he averaged 23.1 factors/recreation for the Indiana Pacers and was named Third-Crew All-NBA, First-Crew All-Protection, and received the league’s Most Improved Participant award.
Max Skirvin (Radio Announcer, Contributor 1950-2000)
Skirvin is among the most essential figures and acknowledged voices within the historical past of IU sports activities. Greatest recognized to IU followers for the 28 years he spent alongside Don Fischer on the IU Radio Community from 1973-2000, Skirvin’s contributions return a lot farther and are far more wide-ranging. He first served because the play-by-play voice of IU Males’s Basketball and Soccer as an IU senior in 1950-51 on WTTS (Bloomington) radio. He later returned to the radio sales space and spent six years because the play-by-play voice of IU Soccer and Basketball from 1967-73. Throughout these years within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, he was instrumental in serving to construct the IU Radio Community by his position because the IU Alumni Affiliation’s Alumni Membership Director. Skirvin spent 19 years on the IUAA and one other 17 on the IU Basis earlier than retiring in 1994.
Jody Yin (Girls’s Tennis, 1991-94)
Yin was a driving and dominant pressure throughout some of the dominant eras for any IU males’s or girls’s program in historical past. She was a four-time First-Crew All-Huge Ten honoree from 1991-94 for the IU Girls’s Tennis group, serving to lead Coach Lin Loring’s program to 4 consecutive Huge Ten Championships and berths within the 20-team NCAA Event subject every season. Yin’s groups went a mixed 77-21 throughout her 4 seasons, together with a exceptional 48-3 towards Huge Ten foes. The Huge Ten Freshman of the 12 months in 1991, Yin concluded her profession in 1994 by incomes Huge Ten Participant of the 12 months honors and advancing to the semifinals of the Nationwide All-America Championships in singles. She posted a 142-42 singles document throughout her four-year profession and ranks second in program historical past in each singles victories and singles win proportion (77.1%).
Extraordinarily honored. Extraordinarily grateful. Couldn’t have performed it with out my brothers within the locker room. I can’t wait to have fun with them and all of Hoosier nation. #IndianaWereAll4U
— Victor Oladipo (@VicOladipo) August 2, 2024
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