DURHAM, N.C. – Duke University enshrined seven new members into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday evening at a ceremony in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The class includes
Shane Battier (basketball),
Dan Brooks (coach),
Mary Dinkins (administrator),
Grant Hill (basketball),
Ed Meadows (football),
Virada Nirapathpongporn (golf) and
Kelly Walbert Cagle (soccer).
The Class of 2016 features one individual NCAA champion in Nirapathpongporn, six-time NCAA women's golf team champion coach Brooks, two-time NCAA men's basketball champion in Hill and one-time champion in Battier, the Blue Devils' first women's soccer inductee in Cagle, recently retired Director of the Duke Varsity Club in Dinkins and the late Meadows, a two-time first team All-America selection.
* Click Next above the photo for more details on each of the 2016 inductees. The Duke Athletics Hall of Fame, which held its inaugural ceremony in 1975, is located on the second floor of the Schwartz-Butters Athletic Center adjacent to Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Voting is conducted by the Hall's enshrinees along with members of the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame committee. Nominations for the Class of 2018 may be submitted online at GoDuke.com beginning in September, 2017.
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