Seven former College of Arkansas student-athletes, a legendary coach and a trailblazing administrator have been chosen as members of the 2022 class of the College of Arkansas Sports activities Corridor of Honor.

Joe Adams (soccer), Invoice Bakewell (baseball), Coach Gary Blair (girls’s basketball), Ruth Cohoon (girls’s athletics), Ray Doakes (males’s observe and subject), Katherine Grable (gymnastics), Ron Huery (males’s basketball), Andy Skeels (baseball) and Dale White (soccer) can be formally inducted in a ceremony to be held on Friday, September 16, 2022, on the Walton Arts Middle in Fayetteville. The ceremony can be held the evening previous to the Arkansas-Missouri State soccer recreation at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.

Inductees are elected to the UA Sports activities Corridor of Honor based mostly on a vote by former Razorback letter winners along with the A Membership.

2022 UA Sports activities Corridor of Honor Inductees

Joe Adams, Soccer

The one punt returner in program historical past to earn All-America honors, Adams dazzled Razorback followers together with his massive play capacity from 2008-11. Adams All-American senior season in 2011 kicked off with a pair of punt returns for touchdowns in opposition to Missouri State, which equaled an SEC document, whereas his 174 return yards set a brand new program document. That season-opening efficiency set the tone for a senior marketing campaign wherein he completed with an SEC document 4 punt returns for touchdowns whereas his 16.9 punt return common led to convention and ranked second nationally. Adams was named the inaugural winner of the Johnny “The Jet” Rodgers Award, which acknowledges the perfect return specialist in faculty soccer, whereas additionally being named a consensus first crew All-American with honors coming from the FWAA, Sporting Information and Professional Soccer Weekly. He additionally earned second crew All-America accolades from the Related Press, Sports activities Illustrated, Water Camp and Phil Steele and was named the SEC Particular Groups Participant of the Yr. A local of Little Rock, Arkansas, his punt return greatness was coupled with 164 profession receptions for two,410 yards, 17 touchdowns and 7 100-yard receiving video games, all of which rank within the high six in program historical past. After serving to Arkansas to back-to-back 10 win seasons as a junior and senior, Adams was chosen within the fourth spherical of the 2012 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers.

Invoice Bakewell, Baseball

A right-handed pitcher for the Razorbacks from 1977-79, Bakewell was instrumental in serving to Coach Norm DeBriyn and his squad attain new heights, together with as a part of Arkansas’ first crew to ever make the Faculty World Sequence in 1979. Used primarily as a better, Bakewell racked up 15 saves over his collegiate profession, a then-school document that now ranks tied for third all-time within the Arkansas document books. He twice put collectively the crew’s finest ERA with a clip of 1.16 in 1977 and a 1.37 in 1978. He was the primary of 4 Razorback pitchers to document the bottom ERA in back-to-back years since 1967. Bakewell nonetheless holds the document for fewest quantity of hits given up per 30.0 innings of labor, permitting simply 12 hits in 1977 over 31 innings pitched. In 1978, Bakewell was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds within the twenty eighth spherical, however determined to return to high school. In doing so, he helped Arkansas to a second-place end within the Southwest Convention in 1979 and a runner-up exhibiting on the Faculty World Sequence with an total document of 49-15.

Gary Blair, Girls’s Basketball

The top girls’s basketball coach at Arkansas for 10 seasons (1993-2003), Gary Blair led the Razorbacks to 5 NCAA Tournaments, together with a run to the 1998 NCAA Girls’s Closing 4. The end is the perfect in program historical past and Arkansas stays the bottom seed (No. 9) to ever make a Girls’s Closing 4. As well as, Blair led the Hogs to a few WNIT appearances, together with the 1999 WNIT Championship. General, Blair coached Arkansas to a document of 198-120 (.623). 5 Razorbacks who performed or coached throughout Blair’s period at Arkansas are members of the UA Sports activities Corridor of Honor (Shameka Christon, Sytia Messer, Amber Shirey, Christy Smith and Amy Wright).  Following the 2021-22 season, Blair retired after 42 years of teaching. In 37 years as a collegiate head coach, together with at Stephen F. Austin, Arkansas and Texas A&M, Blair had 35 profitable seasons, 30 20-win seasons, 41 postseason victories, 26 NCAA Tournaments, 18 convention titles, 13 Candy Sixteens, 4 Elite Eights, two Closing Fours, and one Nationwide Championship (Texas A&M). His profession document as a collegiate head coach was 852-348.

Ruth Cohoon, Girls’s Athletics

The primary Director of Girls’s Athletics, Ruth Cohoon was instrumental in laying the inspiration for the expansion and success of feminine student-athletes on the College of Arkansas. Cohoon joined the College of Arkansas as a swimming teacher in 1965. In 1971, Cohoon volunteered to do additional administrative work and the subsequent yr was appointed to be the Director of the Girls’s Intercollegiate Sports activities program. Elevated to Girls’s AD after Title IX handed in June 1972, Cohoon guided the creation of the ladies’s athletics division, integrating intramural and membership groups. Cohoon persistently fought for higher funding, higher gear and higher scholarships, leading to higher alternatives for girls athletes. She repeatedly requested higher salaries for girls lecturers and coaches to construct a top quality program. The imaginative and prescient of Cohoon helped form the way forward for the college resulting in aggressive success and creating alternatives for 1000’s of future Razorbacks.

Ray Doakes, Males’s Monitor and Subject

A standout subject athlete on the College of Arkansas, Doakes was part of Razorback groups that dominated collegiate observe and subject. Throughout his time in Fayetteville, Arkansas gained all 16 SEC and NCAA Championship meets in indoor and outside observe and subject, together with 4 SEC Triple Crowns and three NCAA Triple Crowns from 1991-95. As a Razorback excessive jumper, he cleared 7-7 ¼ (2.32 meters) indoors in 1994. Doakes’ mark stays the varsity document and ranks tied for eleventh on the all-time collegiate checklist. He additionally established the Arkansas outside faculty document at 7-6 ½ (2.29 meters) in 1995 that has been equaled by solely three different Razorbacks. He was a six-time first-team NCAA All-American who scored in all 4 NCAA Out of doors crew titles for Arkansas. Doakes gained the 1995 NCAA Out of doors excessive bounce after putting second as soon as and fourth twice. Indoors, he was a silver medalist two instances within the NCAA excessive bounce on Razorback nationwide championship groups in 1994 and 1995. Doakes turned the primary individual to say 4 consecutive SEC Out of doors excessive bounce titles with profitable heights of 7-1 (1992), 7-4 ½ (1993), 7-5 ¾ (1994), and 7-4 ½ (1995). He additionally gained three consecutive SEC Indoor excessive bounce titles with marks of 7-2 ¼ (1993), 7-7 ¼ (1994), and 7-4 ½ (1995). His profitable bounce of 7-7 ¼ in 1994 stays the SEC Indoor Championship document. Doakes completed fifth twice on the USATF Championships.

Katherine Grable, Gymnastics

In 2014, Grable accomplished a storybook ending for her profession as a Razorback by claiming the primary two nationwide championships in program historical past and amassing a share of this system document on 4 of the 5 occasions. The Oshkosh, Wisconsin, native gained the vault nationwide title after posting a career-best 9.975 within the second-position (The 9.975 is the best profitable vault rating in NCAA historical past. Grable claimed three scores of an ideal 10.0 from half of the judges on the occasion.) Grable accomplished her routine to the tune of a 9.9625 and claimed her second nationwide title of the day. She did so by scoring two good 10.0′s from the judges to depend one in all them and earn the sting she wanted to say the outright title. She was a two-time SEC Gymnast of the Week (2012), All-SEC Gymnast in 2011, 2013, 2014 and was the SEC Gymnast of the Yr in 2014. Grable was a six-time regional champion, and helped Arkansas advance to NCAA regionals all 4 years of her profession and helped the Razorbacks to a regional title on the 2011 Denver Regional. She was additionally part of an Arkansas squad that reached the NCAA Tremendous Six Finals in 2012, the place she claimed the Particular person Steadiness Beam title. She was a nine-time WCGA All-American and three-time common season All-American.

Ron Huery, Males’s Basketball

One of many early standouts for Corridor of Fame Coach Nolan Richardson at Arkansas, Huery performed on the Razorbacks’ 1990 Closing 4 crew and Elite Eight crew the next season. He performed 4 seasons with the Razorbacks (1986-88 and 1989-91), taking part in in 134 video games and scoring 1,550 factors, thirteenth on the varsity’ all-time checklist. Huery averaged 11.6 factors and three.4 rebounds per recreation in his Razorback profession. He earned All-Southwest Convention honors in 1998 averaging 13.4 factors per recreation and he led the Razorbacks in assists (89) and steals (59) in 1987. His 351 profession assists rank sixth on the varsity’s all-time checklist whereas his 207 profession steals rank ninth. Huery was an everyday on the free throw line in his profession, rating ninth on the document checklist with free throws tried (494) and seventh in free throws made (388). Huery averaged 10 factors and three rebounds for the 1990 Razorbacks, the primary Arkansas crew to advance to the Closing 4 within the Richardson period. General, he helped Arkansas win two SWC Championships (1990, 1991) and earn 4 postseason berths, together with three NCAA appearances (1989, 1990, 1991). In 2005, Huery graduated with a bachelor’s diploma in training.

Andy Skeels, Baseball

An All-American and All-SWC catcher, Skeels led the 1987 Hogs (57-16-1) to the Faculty World Sequence, with a .763 slugging share, 70 runs scored, 76 RBI, 25 doubles, seven triples and 18 HRs, which broke the single-season HR document. His 50 additional base hits stay a college document. His .681 profession slugging share, his .358 profession batting common, rank second and fourth-best in class historical past, respectively. A seventh-round draft choose of the San Diego Padres, Skeels performed professionally from 1987-2001, together with stints with the Padres, Yankees, and Dodgers organizations. Skeels spent 34 years in skilled baseball—as a participant, coach, supervisor and scout. In 14 seasons with the San Francisco Giants, he compiled a minor league managerial document of 497-342 (.592) (finest in skilled baseball over that interval). He additionally served two years because the Giants’ organizational Hitting Coordinator, spent a part of 2017 as a Main League hitting coach, and spent two years as a Main League scout. Throughout his tenure, Skeels was a part of three World Sequence Championships with the Giants (2010, 2012 and 2014). He was the first-ever New Zealand-born participant to look in uniform, as a participant or coach, in a Main League recreation. Skeels additionally managed the New Zealand Nationwide Crew within the 2013 World Baseball Traditional Qualifiers.

Dale White, Soccer

White was a four-year letterwinner for the Razorbacks from 1975-78. White performed nostril guard for the Hogs alongside Corridor of Famer Dan Hampton. White produced 230 tackles, together with 156 solo stops, throughout his profession. He saved his finest for final through the 1978 season, amassing 82 tackles with 57 of these registered as solo stops. He recovered a outstanding 10 fumbles and made 27 tackles for loss in his profession. Arkansas went 35-10-2 throughout White’s tenure on The Hill, showing in three bowl video games. The Razorbacks beat Georgia 31-10 within the 1976 Cotton Bowl. White was additionally part of one of many Hogs’ best wins on the gridiron, when No. 6 Arkansas defeated No. 2 Oklahoma within the 1978 Orange Bowl. Arkansas tied UCLA within the 1978 Fiesta Bowl in White’s last recreation.

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