Hall of Fame Class Announced
WINCHESTER, Va. - Four individuals and one team comprise the 2010 Shenandoah University Hall of Fame class in selections announced Wednesday by the university.
Brandy (Wheeler) Hudson '98, Dick Ward '52, Ellie (Tanner) Wheelock '00, Al White, Jr. '96 and the 1988-89 men's basketball squad make up the third-ever Shenandoah HoF class.
The 2010 class is scheduled to be inducted the weekend October 2-3, 2010. The SU football team plays USA South Conference rival Christopher Newport at 7 p.m. on October 2 with the dinner and induction scheduled for Friday evening beginning at 6 p.m.
Hudson, then known as Brandy Wheeler, starred for the Hornets women's soccer team from 1992-95. In her four-year career, the Virginia Beach, Virginia native scored 51 goals and dished out 30 assists for 132 points.
All three of these marks are still No. 1 on the SU career list.
Hudson earned All-South Region honors all four years of her career and All-Dixie (now USA South Conference) accolades in 1993, 1994 and 1995. (Shenandoah became active members of the Dixie in the fall of 1993.)
Post-college, Hudson played in the USISL for three seasons and was named to the USA South Conference Silver Anniversary team for soccer.
Hudson is currently a health and physical education teacher at Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal.
Ward, who played and coached at Shenandoah when it was a two-year institution located in Dayton, Virginia, was honored by the SU Alumni Association as the 2000 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award. He is also the past President of the Dayton Alumni Society and an original member of the Hall of Fame selection committee.
Ward is a longtime college football coach who is now retired and living in the Shenandoah Valley.
Wheelock, playing as Ellie Tanner, was a three-sport standout in volleyball, basketball and softball.
A four-year member of the volleyball and softball teams and a two-year player in basketball, Wheelock earned a total of eight All-Dixie honors during her career including first team honors her final two years of volleyball and all four years in softball.
Wheelock was the 1997 Dixie Conference co-Rookie of the Year in softball and helped the women's hoops team to a league championship in 2000.
Wheelock is still tops on the all-time list in a myriad of categories in both volleyball and softball and was the school's female Athlete of the Year in both 1998-99 and 1999-2000.
The former head volleyball and softball coach at Shenandoah, Wheelock is now employed as a teacher at Shenandoah Valley Christian Academy.
White, who passed away in 1999 after collapsing while playing a pickup basketball game, was a four-year starter for the Hornets from 1992-96.
As one-half of a 'dynamic duo' with 2008 Hall of Fame Inducee Phil Dixon, White scored 2001 points and pulled down 898 rebounds during his career.
A four-time All-league selection (All-ESAC in 1993, All-Dixie in 1994, '95 and '96), White also earned All-America honors in his senior year from both the NABC (honorable mention) and Columbus Multimedia (2nd team).
White and Dixon, with a combined 4298 points, graduated as the highest-scoring tandem in NCAA Division III history.
The 1988-89 team, the first under 2008 Hall of Fame inductee Dave Dutton, won 21 games on its way to the school's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in any sport.
Dutton's Hornets won both the Eastern States Athletic Conference regular season and tournament titles and famously took on Division I Georgetown University in an early season contest.
