Five
former athletes, a swim coach and an athletic administrator
will be inducted into Eastern Michigan's University's E-Club
Athletic Hall of Fame.
The class of 2006 will be honored at an official induction
ceremony Saturday, Feb. 10, beginning at 10:30 a.m., in
the atrium of the Convocation Center. A reception will
follow at noon in the Stadium Club.
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HALLOWED HALL: Seven
new members will
be
inducted into the E-Club
Athletic Hall of Fame
Saturday, Feb. 10, in the
atrium of the Convocation
Center. |
The Class of 2006 includes: Greg Howe, baseball; Carole
Huston, athletics administrator; Dazel Jules, track; Peter
Linn, swim coach and swimmer; Bob Lints, football; Nikki
Stubbs, volleyball; and Gary Tyson, basketball.
The E-Club, a group of former EMU varsity letter winners,
sponsors the Hall of Fame and has a selection committee
to determine the inductees. This year's class will
be the 31st inducted into the Hall of Fame, which started
with the inaugural class in 1976.
This year's induction ceremony and reception is scheduled
prior to the EMU-Ohio University women's basketball game,
which has a 2 p.m. tip-off. The Hall of Fame inductees
also will be honored at the game.
Tickets for the Hall of Fame ceremony are $35 each, which
includes the induction ceremony, reception and a ticket
for the women's basketball game. Hall of Fame tickets
can be ordered from the EMU Athletics Office by calling
487-1866.
The Hall of Fame was relocated from Bowen Field House
to the EMU Convocation Center with the induction of the
Class of 2001. The hall is located in the atrium of the
Convocation Center and is open to the public on a daily
basis at no charge.
A complete biography of the Class of 2006 is as follows:
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Howe |
Greg Howe (1982 graduate) was an outstanding
baseball player who lettered four times, from 1979-82.
He is one of EMU's all-time leaders in stolen bases and
runs scored. He ranked first in runs scored (72 in 1982)
in a single season and in stolen bases (31 in both 1981
and 1982). He also had 80 career stolen bases, which ranked
second at EMU when he graduated. Howe went on to have an
outstanding minor-league career, rising to the ranks of
Triple A with the Minnesota Twins before retiring. Howe
later became a chiropractor.
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Huston |
Carole Huston served as an administrator
in EMU's Athletic Department from 1970-76 and, again, from
1991-2003. During her first stint, she was a physical education
instructor and became the first women's athletic director
in 1975. She helped the department begin its first women's
athletic scholarship program. She left EMU in 1976 to become
an assistant athletics director at Bowling Green State
University and then returned to EMU in 1991 as a senior
women's administrator in athletics. Huston was in the position
until her retirement in 2003. She also served as the interim
athletics director from 1997-1999.
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Jules |
Dazel Jules (1990 graduate) was a two-time
All-American in track and won six individual and four relay
titles during the Mid-American Conference outdoor track
and field championships. Jules won the 100 meters in 1987
(10.67 seconds), 1988 (10.42) and 1989 (10.60) as well
as the 200 meters in 1987 (20.91), 1988 (20.84) and 1989
(20.86). Jules also ran on three 400-meter-relay teams
that won MAC outdoor titles from 1987-89 and one 1600-meter-relay
team in 1989 (3:07.66). He was named the MAC Outdoor Most
Valuable Performer in 1989.
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Linn |
Peter Linn (1974 graduate) lettered in
swimming from 1971-73. He swam on EMU teams that won the
NAIA National Championships (1970-71) and the NCAA Division
II National Championship (1971-72). Linn began coaching
in 1975-76 as an assistant coach to EMU Head Swimming Coach
Mike Jones. Linn coached at Shaker Heights High School
in Ohio from 1976-82 and at Upper Arlington (Ohio) High
School from 1986-88, before returning to EMU in 1988-89
to take over for Jones, who retired. Currently in his 19th
season of coaching at EMU, Linn has led the Eagles to 15
MAC championships. He was named MAC Men's
Swimming Coach of the Year five times (1989, 1990, 1992,
1998 and 2002). Linn took over the women's swimming and
diving team in 2004-05 and led the group to their first-ever
MAC swim title in 2005-06. He was named MAC Women's Swimming
Coach of the Year in both his seasons as head coach.
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Lints |
Bob Lints (1970 graduate) earned two
varsity letters (1968 and 1969) in football. Both the American
Football Coaches Association and the NAIA chose Lints First
Team All-American in 1969. He was the recipient of the
James M. "Bingo" Brown
Award in 1969 as the team's Most Valuable Player. Lints
was drafted in the third round of the 1970 NFL draft by
the Green Bay Packers, but chose not to play professional
football.
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Stubbs |
Nikki Stubbs (1990 graduate) was a First-Team
All-MAC performer in volleyball in 1990. She led the conference
in kills per game that year and also led EMU in kills (584,
which is an EMU single-season record) and digs (478, which
ranks third all-time at EMU) in 1990. She also led the
team in digs with 279 in 1989. She was a standout on the
1990 team that was the first EMU volleyball team to ever
play in a post-season tournament. The team
competed in the Women's Invitational Volleyball Championships
(WIVC), where the team went 2-2 before the
University of Tennessee eliminated them. The 1990 team
finished runners-up in the MAC Tournament and also won
three in-season tournaments, at South Florida, Wright State
and the Ann Arbor News Classic. Stubbs ranks third in single-match
kills (37) and second in digs (43). Stubbs was a Junior
College All-American before coming to EMU. She is a member
of the National Junior College Athletic Association Hall
of Fame.
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Tyson |
Gary Tyson (1974 graduate) was an outstanding
basketball player, who earned three varsity letters from
1971-74. Tyson still has the EMU single-game record of
47 points scored in one game. He led EMU in scoring in
both 1972-73 (23.5 ppg) and 1973-74 (22.4 ppg). Tyson
helped lead the team to the final four in the NCAA-College
Division Tournament in 1971-72. He ranks sixth
on EMU's all-time scoring list with 1,530 points and his
258 career assists ranks 13th. After graduating, Tyson
had a tryout with the Detroit Pistons. He went on to work
in real estate and has been an assessor/appraiser for the
past 30 years. Tyson also has coached junior varsity boys
and girls basketball at both Ypsilanti Lincoln and Ann
Arbor Huron high schools.
