2024 Murray State Hall of Fame Class Inducted

After Ja Morant's Murray State Hall of Fame induction in July at Racer Hoopalooza, attention was on the remainder of the 2024 Murray State Hall of Fame Logo

class.

The remaining six inductees were enshrined Friday night at a awards dinner at the CFSB Center.

The total 2024 class includes: Daniel Calhoun (Baseball, 2006-09), Becca Lamb (Volleyball, 2007-10), Coach Velvet Milkman (Women's Golf, 1993-22), Ja Morant (Men's Basketball, 2017-19), Miyah Watford (Women's Soccer, 2017-19), Quincy Williams (Football, 2014-18) and Jack Wolf (Football, 1967-71).

Quincy Williams

Burst on the scene with a brilliant senior campaign that led to him being drafted into the National Football League.
His selection by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third round made the highest drafted player in Racer Football history.
Playing his sixth NFL season in 2025.
Was NFL All-Pro in 2024 and is
One of only 22 players in the league who have had 100-plus tackles in each of the last two seasons.
Named the 32nd best player in the NFL in a vote by his player peers in the league.

Jack Wolf

Played for Murray State football for MSU Hall of Fame Coach Bob Fergerson.
First was an All-Conference receiver for Racer Football before becoming one of the top horse racing executives in the world with Starlight Racing.
As of his MSU Hall of Fame induction, Wolf's organization has produced a pair of Hall of Fame horses, nine winners of the Eclipse Award and 40 Grade-1 victories.
Wolf's stable has become a dominant global force, achieving milestones most owners only dream of.
Justify was the 2018 Triple Crown winner.
Two years after Justify, Wolf tasted Derby success again when Authentic captured the 146th Kentucky Derby in 2020.
In 2014, named to Murray State's Distinguished Alumni Award.

Coach Velvet Milkman

Founder of the Murray State women's golf program in the fall of 1993.
She becomes the 23rd coach to be inducted into the MSU Hall of Fame.
29-year career saw her teams win 12 Ohio Valley Conference championships and produce 10 OVC Player of the Year honors.
Coach Milkman's student-athletes earned seven NCAA appearances
In 29 seasons, all of her four-year student-athletes graduated and won a championship.

Miyah Watford

Part of the most successful period of Murray State women's soccer.
Was a key player that produced an OVC title and a pair of NCAA appearances in Murray.
2019 OVC Player of the Year.
Finished third with the Racers with 31 career goals.

Daniel Calhoun

One of only two Murray State winners of the OVC Pitcher of the Year award in 2009.
Led the OVC in strikeouts in back-to-back seasons in 2008 and 2009.
Set the MSU record with 14 wins in 2009.
Selected in MLB Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals and advanced to the franchise's Class-AA team in 2011.

Becca Lamb

Enjoyed a brilliant career for the Racers in which she ranked in the top-10 in matches & sets played, attacks, kills and block assists.
Ninth player in program history to reach the coveted 1000-Kill Club and is ninth overall at MSU.
Named All-OVC in 2009.
Was a four-time OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll winner.

Murray State Hall of Fame Notes

Launched in 1965 under athletics director Coach Roy Stewart who led MSU Football from 1932-67. He was inducted in 1971.
Inaugural class: Harlan Brodie (Football, 1927-1930), Joe Fulks (Basketball, 1941-42), Marshall Gage (Track & Field, 1957-61) and John Powless (Tennis, 1955-57).
The 2024 class is the 42nd to be inducted and brings the total number enshrined at MSU to 188.
The 2024 class of seven combined for 11 major OVC awards and the same number of All-OVC selections.
Including the 2024 class, 48 people have been into the MSU Hall of Fame in the last six years of consecutive classes.
Velvet Milkman is the 23rd head coach inducted. The last to be honored before Milkman was Tevester Anderson (MBB) in 2021.
With Milkman, there will be five women's coaches in the MSU HOF including Nita Head (tennis 1967-82), Connie Keasling (tennis 1984-87, 1992-11), Dew Drop Rowlett (basketball 1933-35) and Margaret Simmons (track & field 1968-91).
Miyah Watford's induction is the fourth from women's soccer, one of MSU's newest programs that first fielded a team in 2000. She follows Rebekah Clay (2018), Tara Isbell (2020) and Harriet Withers (2023).
Morant is the third MSU hall of Famer to be inducted while an active member of the NBA, following Popeye Jones and Cameron Payne.
Morant is the 17th Racer that was an NBA Draft selection to be inducted into the MSU HOF.

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