AT H L E T I C S
Hall of Fame
2013-2014 MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM
This team set school records with 31 wins and only three losses in a historically-significant season. Five Bears were named all-Mid-South Conference (MSC), and four were chosen as NAIA All-Americans for a team that finished its season with an average margin of victory of 19.0 points per game. The Bears charged through the MSC with a 17-1 record, setting a league mark for conference wins in a season, and then rolled through the tournament, punctuating the season with a 96-71 win over Georgetown in the finals. Kelly Wells was named coach of the year, and Bruce Reed, who averaged 18.2 points and 6.1 rebounds, was the player of the year. He was joined on the all-conference team by Chris Cantino (13.5 points, 10.1 rebounds), Elisha Justice ’14 (9.5 points, 3.6 assists), Keala King (15.8 points, 6.0 rebounds) and Josh Whitaker ’14 (11.3 points, 3.6 assists). Reed, Cantino, Justice and King were all named NAIA to the All-American team.
MEN’S BASKETBALL REGGIE GRAVELY
Gravely left the college in seventh place on the all-time scoring list with 1,572 points. Gravely’s scoring total has him 11th on the scoring leaderboard at the time of his induction. He was a first-team all-conference selection in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletics Conference in 1988 and was also first-team All-NAIA District 32 that season. After graduation, he began a distinguished career for East Kentucky Beverage.
MEN’S BASKETBALL TEON KNOX
Maryland native Knox quickly made an impact across campus, the community and on the court. He was a part of the school’s first team to go to the NAIA national tournament in consecutive seasons, reaching Kansas City in 2003 and 2004. As a senior, he was named a second-team All-American and first-team all-MSC after averaging 14.8 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. He also shot 47.7 percent from the floor that season while being named the league’s player of the week three different times. As a junior, he was named honorable-mention all-conference as well. After his time as a Bear concluded, he played professional basketball overseas and was coaching the Columbia Terps AAU 17-and-under team at the time of his induction.
MEN’S GOLF WILL BOYD ʼ16
Boyd was a three-time all-MSC player who held or established 14 school records for the men’s golf program. He had career records in wins, rounds played, counting scores, birdies and eagles while also establishing single-season marks in scoring average, national ranking, wins, par-or-better rounds, birdies and eagles, low round and low round vs. par. Boyd was a part of seven team wins and is one of only two Bears to ever win a MSC showcase tournament. He was also the only player to be named to the MSC’s first team in golf.
WOMEN’S BOWLING BRANDY HENSLEY ʼ13
Hensley, a Corpus Christi, Texas, native, helped her squad to the 2011-12 NAIA championship and a runner-up finish in the 2013 USBC Intercollegiate Team Championships. Hensley was an NAIA All-American in 2011-12 and in 2013 was first-team All-MSC, which was the first season the MSC honored bowling with those awards. She had 11 top-5 finishes in her career and, as a senior, had a scoring average of 192.509. After graduation, she became the head coach at Union College, where she was named 2018 MSC Men’s Coach of the Year, and an assistant coach at the University of the Cumberlands.
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