Jim Harris with The Buzz: New UA Sports Hall of Honor Class Includes Stacy Lewis

 

Each Tuesday Jim Harris appears on 103.7 The Buzz FM at 11 a.m. during the The Zone with Justin Acri and Pat Bradley. This week Jim and the crew discuss the 2014 University of Arkansas Hall of Honor Class which includes the “Shootah” Pat Bradley, Freddie Childress, Shemeka Christon, Robert Cox, Graham Hood, Kenoy Kennedy, Stacy Lewis, Pat Morrison and Louis Ramsay.

You will find full bios and more details on each member of the 2014 class below.

FAYETTEVILLE – A total of nine former University of Arkansas student-athletes will be inducted as members of the 2014 class of the UA Sports Hall of Honor this September. The honorees include the top women’s professional golfer in the world, two National Football League greats, one of the Southeastern Conference’s most prolific three-point shooters, a WNBA first-round draft pick and one of the most dominant runners in the storied tradition of Razorback Track and Field.

The 2014 class is led by LPGA star Stacy Lewis, who won an NCAA national championship before ascending to the No. 1 ranking in the world in women’s golf. Former Razorback and NFL greats Kenoy Kennedy and Freddie Childress are joined by All-Southwest Conference football selection Pat Morrison and former football student-athlete and University of Arkansas Board of Trustees member Louis Ramsay. Former Razorback basketball stars Pat Bradley and Shameka Christon are joined by two-time track and field Olympian Graham Hood and longtime Razorback men’s tennis coach Robert Cox in the class. The 2014 inductees were elected to the UA Sports Hall of Honor based on a vote by former Razorback letter winners in conjunction with the A Club.

“The 2014 class of the UA Sports Hall of Honor is truly a reflection of some of the best student-athletes and coaches in our program’s history,” Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Jeff Long says. “These individuals not only distinguished themselves as Razorbacks, but later went on to successful careers in athletics and other professions. We are proud of all that they have accomplished and look forward to recognizing their extraordinary achievements during the Hall of Honor weekend in September.”

The 2014 class will be inducted during the Hall of Honor weekend, Sept. 5-6. Hall of Honor weekend includes a golf tournament at the Fayetteville Country Club and an induction banquet at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Springdale. Inductees will also be recognized during half-time of Arkansas’ football home opener against Nicholls State at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.

Tables and individual tickets to the induction banquet and the Hall of Honor golf tournament may be purchased from the Razorback Foundation. Sponsorships are also available for the banquet and golf outing. For more information, call the Razorback Foundation at 479-443-9000 or the official Hall of Honor homepage.

2014 UA Sports Hall of Honor Inductees

2014 UA hall of honor classStacy Lewis, Women’s Golf
As a member of the University of Arkansas women’s golf team, Lewis won 12 collegiate events and was a four-time All-American. She was the 2005 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year, the 2007 NCAA Division I National Champion and the 2008 SEC Championship Individual Medalist and Player of the Year. Away from collegiate competition, she won the 2006 Harder Hall Invitational, the 2006 Western Amateur and was a semi-finalist at the 2006 U.S. Women’s Amateur. She was the 2007 Southern Amateur Champion and the 2007 Dinah Shore Trophy Award recipient. Lewis was also a member of the victorious U.S. Team at the 2007 at Copa de las Americas and on the victorious 2008 U.S. Curtis Cup team, becoming the first player to go 5-0 in Curtis Cup history. Lewis is a two-time Golfweek and Golf Digest Women’s Amateur Player of the Year (2006-07) and was the top ranked amateur in the Golfweek/Titleist Women’s Amateur Rankings in 2008. Lewis turned pro after graduation and has 10 LPGA Tour victories, was the 2012 Rolex Player of the Year and the 2013 Vare Trophy winner.  She is a two-time member of the Solheim Cup (2011, 2013) and is currently ranked as the No 1 women’s golfer in the world.

Kenoy Kennedy, Football
A two-time All-SEC selection at safety, Kennedy earned second-team honors from The Associated Press as a junior in 1998 and first-team honors from league coaches and the AP as a senior in 1999. He also earned AP third-team All-American honors in his senior season. A captain of the 1999 Razorback squad, he helped Arkansas to an upset of No. 14 Texas in the 2000 Cotton Bowl. He finished his career with 287 tackles, the most by an Arkansas defensive back in school history. Following his Razorback career, he was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 2000 NFL Draft and played five seasons with Denver (2000-04) before finishing his career with three seasons for the Detroit Lions (2005-07). He made 536 tackles, earned 10 interceptions and forced seven fumbles in his NFL career.

Pat Bradley, Men’s Basketball
A four-time letterman from 1996-99, Bradley earned All-SEC honors in 1997 and 1998. He is fifth on Arkansas’ career scoring list (1,765), led the team in scoring in 1997 (14.4), 1998 (14.8) and 1999 (14.1). He holds the school record for career threes made (366), is 11th on Arkansas’ career field goals made list (576) and led the team in free throw shooting all four years. His .858 career free throw percentage is the third-best in school history. Bradley held the SEC record for career three pointers until 2008 and still ranks among the top five all time. He also held the SEC record for consecutive games with at least one three pointer made (60) until the record was eclipsed in 2013.

Robert Cox, Men’s Tennis
Cox was head coach of the Arkansas men’s tennis team for 26 seasons and is the all-time winningest coach in program history with 323 wins. Coach Cox’s teams produced 13 All-Americans, 23 All-SEC selections, seven Southwest Conference champions, two ITA national champions, two ITA top-ranked singles players and one ITA No. 1-ranked doubles team. Over his 26 years, he led Arkansas to nine NCAA Tournament appearances, six regio¬nals and one Sweet 16 appearance. Cox also led the Razorbacks to a pair of SWC championships (1988 and 1989). He has also recorded 13 seasons with 12 or more victories and coached 11 teams that were ranked in the top-35 at the end of the year. Coach Cox was named ITA Central Region V Coach of the Year in both 2004 and 2006. Cox first came to the University of Arkansas as a student-athlete, playing on the 1977 and 1978 men’s tennis teams. He was a part of squads that produced a 48-10 record under then coach Tom Pucci. In 2007, a group of former Razorbacks came together for a ceremony to rename center court at the newly christened and renovated George M. Billingsley Tennis Center in Cox’s honor.

Freddie Childress, Football
A letterman at Arkansas from 1985-88, Childress was a first-team All-SWC selection in 1986 and 1988. He was one of the six offensive linemen named to Arkansas’ All-Century Team prior to the 1994 season and was also on the All-Decade Team. His senior class broke the Arkansas record for most wins in a four-year stretch with 38 – still tied for the school record – won the 1988 SWC title and finished in the top 15 of the final AP poll three times. He was taken in the second round of the 1989 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals and appeared in 31 games in his NFL career. He then appeared in 188 games over 13 seasons in the CFL, where he was a six-time West Division all-star and three-time league all-star. He was named the West Division Offensive Lineman of the Year in 1997 and 1998 and was the league’s Outstanding Offensive Lineman in 1998.

Graham Hood, Men’s Track and Field
A two-time Olympian and one of the Razorback Track and Field’s most accomplished runners, Graham Hood earned nine All-America awards from 1991-95, one in cross country, six indoors and two outdoors. Hood helped lead Arkansas to dominance in its early years in the Southeastern Conference. In his tenure, Hood contributed to 12 NCAA and 12 SEC team titles. Hood ran on Arkansas’ 1994 NCAA and SEC champion distance medley relay squad before winning gold of his own at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 1,500. During his tenure, he won one Southwest Conference and five SEC titles including indoors in the 800 meters (1991), DMR (1994, 1995), Mile (1995), 3,000 (1995) and outdoors in the 1,500 meters (1995) His performances can still be found prominently on many of the Razorbacks’ top 10 lists. Hood competed for Canada in the 1,500 meters in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and qualified for the 1996 games in Atlanta before being sidelined by an injury.

Shameka Christon, Women’s Basketball
The first Arkansas women’s basketball player to earn Associated Press All-America honors, Hot Springs, Ark., native Shameka Christon became Arkansas’ first, first-round professional draft selection after earning 2004 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year honors.  Leading the league in scoring with 21.8 points-per-game her senior year, Christon played in three NCAA tournaments at Arkansas and closed her career as the second all-time leading scorer with 1,951 points.  She led Arkansas to semifinal finishes at the 2001 and 2002 SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament, still the all-time best performance for the Razorbacks. As a six-year veteran with the WNBA New York Liberty, she was on the 2004 Rookie Team and a WNBA All-Star in 2009.  Christon was traded to the Chicago Sky for the 2011 season but injuries kept her out of the lineup.  Christon is now with the San Antonio Stars.

Pat Morrison, Football
Morrison lettered for the Razorbacks from 1968- 70, helping Arkansas earn a share of the 1968 Southwest Conference championship. He was named the first-team All-SWC tight end in 1970 after catching 20 passes for 240 yards and two touchdowns. In his first season, Arkansas finished the year 10-1 and ranked sixth in the final Associated Press poll after defeating No. 4 Georgia 16-2 in the Sugar Bowl. The 1969 team finished seventh in the AP poll after returning to the Sugar Bowl and winning nine games. In his senior season, he helped lead the Razorbacks to another 9-2 record and a final rank of 11th. Following his senior year, he played in the All-America Bowl and was drafted by the Buffalo Bills.

Louis Ramsay, Football
A quarterback on Fred Thomsen’s last two teams at Arkansas, Ramsay lettered in 1940 and 1941 on squads that went 4-6 and 3-7, respectively. After serving as a pilot in the Army Air Corps in World War II, he moved to Pine Bluff to practice law in 1947. He was a member and eventually president of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees as well as a board member of the Razorback Foundation.

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