PGA Tour pro Charley Hoffman and LPGA golfer Dana Finkelstein Fall were among 7 inductees successful the UNLV Athletics Hall of Fame, which was announced Tuesday.
The induction ceremonial volition instrumentality spot Nov. 5 astatine the Strip View Pavilion wrong the Thomas & Mack Center.
The hall’s rank volition summation to 148 inductees, including some individuals and teams, since its inception successful 1987.
Former student-athletes go eligible for induction 10 years aft completing their collegiate careers, portion coaches and administrators indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 5 years removed from the university.
“Every 2 years we look guardant to celebrating the radical who person made UNLV specified a peculiar place, and this upcoming people is different large illustration of what it takes to beryllium a Rebel,” UNLV Director of Athletics Erick Harper said.
“Moving the ceremonial backmost to a much accepted mounting during a location hoops and shot play volition marque it adjacent much memorable for the inductees, their families, friends and each of Rebel Nation.”
The people of 2026 features:
Terry Cottle
Cottle spent 30 years successful the UNLV athletics department, including 10 seasons arsenic an adjunct shot coach.
He aboriginal served arsenic recruiting coordinator, manager of shot operations, subordinate diversion manager for selling and manager of assemblage relations earlier finishing his vocation arsenic an athletics head astatine the College of Southern Nevada.
Erick Fedde
Fedde, present successful his ninth Major League Baseball season, became the archetypal subordinate successful UNLV past selected successful the archetypal circular of the MLB Draft erstwhile the Washington Nationals chose him 18th wide successful 2014.
The 2014 Mountain West Pitcher of the Year finished his Rebels vocation with a 21-10 grounds and a 3.18 ERA, the fourth-lowest successful programme history.
Dana Finkelstein Fall
A two-time all-American, Fall led UNLV to 4 NCAA determination appearances and consecutive NCAA tourney berths successful 2014 and 2015.
She was a three-time Mountain West Player of the Year, inactive holds the programme grounds with 56 vocation rounds astatine par oregon amended and ranks 2nd successful schoolhouse past with 363 birdies earlier continuing her vocation connected the LPGA Tour.
Charley Hoffman
Hoffman starred for the Rebels from 1995-99 and helped pb UNLV to the 1998 NCAA men’s play nationalist championship.
A four-time PGA Tour winner, Hoffman was antecedently inducted into the hallway arsenic a subordinate of the 1998 title squad successful 2008.
Marissa Nichols
Nichols played softball astatine UNLV from 2005-10, serving arsenic a squad skipper for 5 seasons.
She inactive holds programme single-season records for location runs (18), full bases (176), runs scored (66), hits (89), and stolen bases (35).
Bill Paulos
Paulos, a 1969 UNLV graduate, has been 1 of the athletics department’s longtime benefactors.
He helped enactment the operation of the Mendenhall Center and Fertitta Football Complex and presently serves connected the Rebel Golf Foundation Board.
Jason Thomas
Thomas quarterbacked the Rebels from 2000-02 nether manager John Robinson.
He ranks sixth successful programme past with 4,497 vocation passing yards and recorded 7 vocation 200-yard passing games during his 3 seasons astatine UNLV.
Tickets are available, arsenic the ceremonial is unfastened to the public. It begins astatine 5:30 p.m. with a cocktail reception, followed by meal and the induction ceremonial astatine 6:45 p.m.
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