ABILENE – Corey Stone, the leading scorer in ACU?men's basketball history, and former women's tennis all-America player Julie Mavity Maddalena are among a group of six alumni who will be inducted this year into the ACU?Sports Hall of Fame.
Others entering the Hall of Fame are former women's basketball standout Anita Vigil, track and field star Les Vanover and baseball player Reid Huffman. Football player and longtime ACU?athletics benefactor Dub Stocker is the 19th recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Class of 2011 will be officially inducted into the hall during the annual festivities Friday, Oct. 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the McCaleb Conference Center at the Hunter Welcome Center.
With the addition of the six members of this year's class, the ACU Sports Hall of Fame now includes 148 men and women. With the induction of Mavity Maddalena and Vigil, the hall now has 19 former ACU?female student-athletes among its membership, along with two other women as Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.
Stone, who starred from 1991-95, tops all ACU?career scorers with 1,848 points. Stone, who averaged 16.8 points per game in 110 career games, scored in double figures in 94 of those games and put up at least 20 points in 40 career games. He still holds the school record for most points scored by a sophomore with 530 in 1992-93. Stone was a four-time all-Lone Star Conference performer, including a first team selection in 1994-95.
Mavity Maddalena is the only four-time NCAA Division II all-America player in ACU women's tennis history, and was twice named?academic all-America. Mavity Maddalena was also a four-time all-LSC?selection and three-time academic all-conference pick.
Vigil is the fourth-leading scorer in ACU women's basketball with 1,795 points from 1987-89 and 1990-92. She led the Wildcats in scoring four times and led the Wildcats to the LSC title in her senior season of 1991-92. Vigil was also a two-time first team all-district selection and a two-time honorable mention all-America pick.
An outfielder and pitcher, Huffman finished his career in 1977 as the Wildcats' all-time leader in six categories. Huffman was a first team NAIA?all-district selection in 1977 after hitting .352 in his senior season.
Vanover was part of ACU's 1952 and 1954 NAIA national championship teams, and ranked No. 6 in the world in the high jump in 1954. Vanover cleared 6-8 at the West Texas Relays in 1954, a school record that stood for almost 20 years.
Stocker was a starter on the 1973 NAIA Division I national championship football team, and was later named honorable mention on the all-decade team for the 1970s. Stocker – the CEO?and co-founder of Texas International Energy Partners – was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the ACU?Sports Hall of Fame in the mid-1980s. A former president of the ACU?Lettermen's Association, Stocker has been a loyal and generous benefactor for the ACU?athletics program for more than 30 years.
