E-Club
Athletic Hall of Fame to induct seven
Seven new members, including a current NFL quarterback,
will be inducted into the Eastern Michigan University E-Club
Athletic Hall of Fame.
The Class of 2009 includes: Denise Allen (women's basketball),
Charlie Batch (football), Jerry Cerulla (men's track),
Angela (Springer) Johnson (women's track), Sharon McNie
(women's gymnastics), Gary Patton (football) and Gary Strickland
(athletic trainer).
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This year's class will mark the 34th anniversary of the
E-Club Athletic Hall of Fame. The E-Club is a group of
former EMU varsity athletic letter winners. The ceremony
will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, in the Student
Center and will be followed immediately by a buffet luncheon.
The group will be honored at halftime of the EMU men's
basketball game versus Northern Illinois in the Convocation
Center at 2 p.m.
that afternoon. Tickets for the Hall
of Fame ceremony and luncheon, which also includes a ticket
for the basketball game, are $45 each and can be purchased
by calling the EMU Athletics Department at 487-1866.
A brief synopsis of each inductee is as follows:
Denise Allen , a 1982 EMU graduate, was
a four-year letter-winner in women's basketball. She finished
her career ranked 11th in scoring in EMU history with 1,049
points and her 573 rebounds is 10th . Allen played in
94 games for EMU, 73 of those as a starter. She averaged
in double figures in all four seasons, with an 11.3 average
as a freshman, a 10.9 mark as a sophomore, a 12.0 average
as a junior and a 10.3 average as a senior. Allen helped
the 1978-79 team upset Michigan, 75-74, at the Motor City
Tournament. She was a starter on the 1980-81 squad that
won two of three games at the State of Michigan Amateur
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (SMAIAW) state
tournament.
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