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Living LegendsSix BU legends reach Hall of Fame; one added to Wall of Honor
Four former Baylor athletic standouts, a national title-winning coach,
and a former athletic director made up the Class of 2008 for the Baylor
Athletic Hall of Fame, which held induction ceremonies in early
November.
Marty Crawford (baseball), Ray Crockett (football), Sally Geis (women's
cross country and track and field), and Roy Lee Smalley (men's track
and field) were inducted as athletes, while men's tennis coach Matt
Knoll and former athletic director Tom Stanton were enshrined for their
off-the-field achievements. In addition, former men's basketball star
Jim Turner joined the Hall of Fame's Wall of Honor.
Crawford, who played for the BU baseball squad from 1993-96, is the
only Bear to lead the team in batting average four straight years.
Crockett, a four-year football letterman from 1985-88, earned
all-Southwest Conference honors in 1987, and went on to a successful
fourteen-year NFL career.
One of Baylor's most decorated distance runners, Geis led the BU
women's cross country team to four consecutive SWC titles from 1990-93.
She also won five SWC championships on the track. Smalley was a
standout sprinter for Jack Patterson's Baylor track team from 1960 to
1962, helping the Bears win two SWC team titles. As a senior, he won
two relay and one individual gold.
In twelve years at the helm of the Baylor tennis program, Knoll has
amassed a 286-70 record while winning eight Big 12 championships and a
national title in 2004, Baylor's first national title in any sport.
Stanton became Baylor’s athletic director in July 1995 and presided
over a building boom that saw the creation of the Turner Riverfront
Athletic Complex. He was also a standout athlete for Baylor in the
early 1970s, playing both basketball and baseball.
Turner, the 2008 Wall of Honor recipient, was inducted into the
Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996. He was a three-year letterman for the
Baylor basketball team from 1966-68. A highly successful businessman,
Turner served as the chair, president, and CEO of Dr Pepper Bottling
Holdings, Inc., and Dr Pepper Bottling Company of Texas. Turner
currently is principal of JLT Beverages. He is a past chair of Baylor's
Board of Regents.
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