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Athletic News
11/17/2009 -
MOC Athletics Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony Saturday
The Mount Olive College Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies take place Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Hennessee Room in the Lois K. Murphy Regional Center on the Mount Olive College campus. Heather Parker Collier (softball), Matt Dudley (men’s soccer/men's tennis), Billy Lee (men’s basketball) and Patrick Riley (baseball) comprise the fourth Hall of Fame class. The induction ceremony is part of the MOC Alumni Weekend and Pickle Classic festivities.
Heather Parker Collier '98 became the first Mount Olive College student-athlete in any sport to be named as an Academic All-American, earning first team honors in 1998. A two-time All-Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference outfielder, Collier holds Trojan single-season records for most hits and most triples, as well as the career record for most triples. Her career .379 batting average is the third highest in school history and she also owns the second and fifth highest single-season batting averages, .454 in 1998 and .425 in 1996. Mount Olive won the regular season conference title in 1997 and was conference tournament runner-up in 1998.
More than 10 years after his collegiate athletics career concluded, Matt Dudley '00 remains the Trojan men’s soccer all-time goal-scoring and career-scoring leader. A three-time All-Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference selection, Dudley tallied 40 career goals and 93 career points. His 18 goals in 1996 are the second-highest single-season total in school history. The Trojans were conference tournament runners-up in 1996 and earned a school-record third-place finish in the conference regular season standings.
Billy Lee '69 was a member of the men’s basketball team and went on to embark on a successful 30-year basketball coaching career, amassing more than 400 victories at the collegiate and high school levels. His greatest success came during his 18-year tenure at Campbell University, earning Big South Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year honors in 1986-87 and 1993-94, and also being named 1995-96 Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year after Campbell changed conferences. Lee guided Campbell to the 1992 Big South championship and the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament berth, where the Camels faced eventual national champion Duke in the first round. Lee currently serves as a color commentator for college basketball telecasts on MASN (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network).
Patrick Riley '84 was part of the Mount Olive College baseball team that came within one game of reaching the National Junior College World Series, just three years after the baseball program was reinstated at Mount Olive. Riley was the 1983 Eastern Conference Player of the Year and earned All-America honorable mention. He batted .414 in 1983 with four home runs and 23 runs batted in. Riley led the Trojans in the championship game of the Eastern Conference Tournament with a home run and three rbi. He went on to play two years at Division I Western Carolina, where he broke the school single-season home run record with 15 home runs.
“We are pleased to be adding four individuals with outstanding athletic careers to the Mount Olive College Athletics Hall of Fame,” said Director of Athletics Jeff Eisen. “This is a diverse group, representing different sports and different eras, but all share in common the fact that they distinguished themselves as student-athletes at Mount Olive.”
This year’s class brings the total number of inductees up to 16. The inaugural class, inducted in 2006, was comprised of Kenney Moore (baseball), Larry Nance (athletics director/coach), Clarence Rose (men’s golf), Ray Scarborough (friend of the college/baseball) and Russell Stephens (men’s basketball). The Class of 2007 featured Jimmy Adams (athletics director/coach), Charles Davis (baseball), Larry Dean (athletics director/coach) and Sarah Leonard Richardson (women’s basketball). Last year’s class was comprised of Bill Clingan (coach), Candy Tefertiller (women’s basketball/women’s volleyball/women’s tennis) and Darwin Carr (men’s basketball/men’s tennis).