ACU To Induct Five More Standouts Into Sports Hall Of Fame
By: ACU Athletics
Updated: May 19, 2012
ABILENE - Jackie
(Bucher) Washington, one of the best players in the history of ACU
women's basketball, and former multi-sport athlete Paul Goad are among a
group of five alumni to be inducted this fall
into the ACU Sports Hall of Fame.
Other inductees
include former golf standout Bill Steen and former football all-America
Greg Stirman. Also being inducted into the Hall of Fame will be Dub
Winkles, the 20th recipient of the LIfetime Achievement
Award.
The Class of 2012
will be officially inducted into the Hall of Fame during the annual
festivities on Friday, Oct. 19, at 6:30 p.m. in the McCaleb Conference
Center at the Hunter Welcome Center. Tickets
can be purchased by calling 325-674-CATS or 325-674-2353.
With
the addition of the five members of this year's class, the ACU Sports
Hall of Fame now includes 153 men and women. With Washington's
induction, the hall now has 20 former ACUfemale
student-athletes among its membership, along with two other women as
Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.
Washington
transferred to ACU from Cal State-Fullerton prior to the 1997-98 season
and had an immediate impact, averaging 17.5 points and 6.8 rebounds per
game before a knee injury 10 games
into the season cost her the rest of the campaign. She made up for the
lost time over her final two seasons, however, as she led the Wildcat to
the Lone Star Conference title and a trip to the NCAA Division II South
Central Region Tournament in 1998-99.
As
a senior in 1999-2000, Bucher was first team all-LSC, first team NCAA
Division II all-South Central Region, first team academic all-LSC, was
named the Texas state winner of the Honda
NCAA Woman of the Year award and was named an NCAA Post-Graduate
Scholarship winner. She shot 69.4 percent from the field that season,
the top percentage in all of women's college basketball and second only
to North Carolina center Brendan Haywood in all of
NCAA basketball.
Washington
- who is married to current Texas women's basketball assistant coach
George Washington - recorded 14 double-doubles as a senior and 29 in her
career and finished her three seasons
as the 11th-leading scorer in ACU history (1,357 points) and 12th
all-time leading rebounder (620 rebounds).
Her
junior season might have been her most dominant as she averaged 19.5
points and 9.5 rebounds and led the Wildcats to a 24-7 record, the LSC
regular-season and post-season tournament
titles and a spot in the regional tournament. That year she was named
all-tournament at the Disney Division II Tipoff Classic, all-tournament
at the ACU Classic, MVP of the LSC South Division, academic all-LSC, MVP
of the LSC Post-Season Tournament, Daktronics
first team all-region, Daktronics honorable mention all-America,
Kodak/WBCA honorable mention all-America and Division II Bulletin
honorable mention all-America.
Goad
was a three-sport at ACU in the mid-1950s whose name is on the award
that is given to the top male and female athletes of the year at ACU.
That award has been handed out to ACU student-athletes
since Goad's death in November 1978.
Goad
lettered in football, baseball and track and field for the Wildcats
after transferring to ACU after his freshman campaign at Vanderbilt. He
won the Texas Conference title in the shot
put in 1954, and he was a member of ACU's NAIA national championship
track and field teams in 1954 and 1955.
Goad
was ACU's leading rusher and scorer in 1954, and in 1955 he was third
team all-America. He went on to play professionally for one season
(1956) with the San Francisco 49ers after being
selected by the team in the 25th round of the 1956 draft.
The
university established an annual award in memory of Goad in April 1979
for the most outstanding male and female athletes each year at ACU.
Football player and ACU Hall of Fame member
Kelly Kent and former volleyball standout Kathy (Williams) Moore were
the first recipients of the award.
Stirman
was a four-time all-LSC selection and an academic all-America selection
during his Wildcat career. During his career, the tight end was one of
the Wildcats' leading receivers, helping
carry the Wildcats to the 1973 NAIA Division I national championship
alongside running back Wilbert Montgomery and quarterback Clint Longley,
among others.
Stirman
started 42 straight games for the Wildcats before a knee injury in the
eighth game of his senior season in 1975 effectively ended his career.
Stirman finished his career as the
ninth all-time leading receiver in LSC history. He still ranks 10th in
ACU history with 1,934 receiving yards and fifth with 125 career
catches.
Stirman
was a first team all-LSC selection in 1973 and was a second team pick
in 1974, 1975 and 1976. He was an academic all-LSC selection in each of
those seasons and served as team captain
in 1974. He was a first team academic all-America in 1974 and was a
second team academic all-America pick in both 1973 and 1975.
He
recorded three 100-yard receiving days in his career, none bigger,
however, than on Oct. 23, 1976
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