CEDAR CITY, Utah, Jan. 17 - Southern Utah University
will induct five former athletes into its Athletic Hall of Fame next week.
Stuart Adams, Cherri Frandsen, Myndee Kay Larsen, Davor
Marcelic and Rick Robins will be inducted during ceremonies at a banquet the
afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 26, and will be honored at halftime of the
Thunderbirds' men's basketball game vs. Eastern Washington that evening.
A two-time all-American in golf, Adams placed fifth at the
1985 NAIA national championships to lead the Thunderbirds to a seventh-place
team finish. The Vacaville, Calif., native still holds SUU's single-round
scoring record with a 61 he shot at Boise State during the 1984-85 season, a
year in which he led the Thunderbirds in scoring at all but one tournament. A
four-time all-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference selection and three time RMAC
individual champion, he was also the RMAC's scholar-athlete for golf his junior
and senior years as well as SUU's male athlete of the year in 1984-85. Adams,
who is one of just six golfers in the RMAC Hall of Fame, currently practices
optometry in Lake Havasu City, Ariz.
Frandsen was a four-year letter-winner in women's basketball
who helped lead Southern Utah to three straight American West Conference
championships, from 1994-1996. A graduate of Enterprise High School, she was
three-time all-AWC selection and is still the school's career scoring leader
with 1,762 points while ranking second all-time in field goal percentage, third
in rebounding and blocks and fifth in steals. She was named the AWC's player of
the year following her senior season and was a two-time conference tournament
MVP as well as Southern Utah's Athlete of the Year in 1994 and its' Female
Athlete of the Year in 1995. She currently resides in Panguitch, Utah, where
she stays involved with athletics, coaching at the youth and high school
levels.
Larsen, who was also a four-year letter-winner in women's
basketball at SUU, teamed with Frandsen on three of those AWC championship
teams and also was a member of the school's inaugural Mid-Continent Conference
squad. During her time at SUU the Twin Falls, Idaho, native earned first-team
CoSIDA GTE Academic All-American honors, was a two-time all-AWC honoree and
earned first-team all-Mid-Continent Conference recognition. She set two NCAA
records which still stand, for converting 28 consecutive field goal attempts in
a row, which helped her to set the NCAA season mark when she connected on
249-of-344 shots, 72.4 percent, as a senior in 1997-98. She is the school's
career field goal percentage and blocks leader and ranks second in rebounds and
fourth in free throw percentage. Larsen, who went on to serve as an assistant
coach and administrator at SUU, is currently an assistant commissioner in The
Summit League.
Marcelic played at SUU from 1987 to 1992 and scored an SUU
men's record 1,710 points along the way. The native of Zagreb, Yugoslavia, is
one of just two Thunderbird men's players to surpass 1,500 points and he also
holds the school's single-season scoring record of 659 points, which he scored
in 1991-92 when he led the Thunderbirds to a 20-8 record, the school's
second-best mark during its NCAA era. In addition to his scoring marks he is
still among the school's top-10 in career free throw shooting, 3-point
shooting, assists and rebounding. SUU's men's basketball player of the year in
1990-91, he was the team's scoring leader during his junior and senior seasons.
He currently works in real estate in his native Croatia.
Robins was a four-year starter at quarterback for the
Thunderbirds who left the school as its career total offense, total plays,
passing attempts, pass completions, passing yards and passing touchdowns leader
and he still ranks among the top three in all of those categories. When the
native of Scipio, Utah, graduated from SUU in 1997 he also held two of the top
four single-season marks for pass attempts, including the record; two of the
top-three season completion marks, including the record; and two of the
top-four single-season passing yards marks, including the record; as well as
two of the top-three single-seasons for total yards and plays. All but one of
the single-season marks are still among the school's top-10. Robins is
currently the principal at Utah's Juab High School.
The banquet is open to the public and tickets may be
purchased by contacting Kit Janes in the SUU athletic department
(janes@suu.edu).
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