{"id":4184,"date":"2023-04-18T21:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T21:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2023-04-18T21:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T21:23:06","slug":"troy-inducts-seven-new-members-into-sports-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/18\/troy-inducts-seven-new-members-into-sports-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY inducts seven new members into  Sports Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Over the weekend several important figures in Trojan Athletics history were enshrined forever in the 11th Troy Sports Hall of Fame Banquet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very excited,&#8221; said inductee Carl Hollis. &#8220;Wondering was it true or somebody was playing a joke on me. It was very exciting. Overjoyed me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were seven total inductees in the 11th class, which included Mike Amos, a member of the 1965 and 66 football teams. He is also known for being an ardent supporter of Trojan Athletics for the last 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other inductees included Sherill Busby (Football), Rhodney Donaldson (Men&#8217;s Basketball), Chris Force (Women&#8217;s Golf), Carl Hollis (Men&#8217;s Basketball), Barbara Sherwood (Softball), and Mark Smartt (Baseball).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The facilities were good back then for division two athletics, they&#8217;re fabulous now,&#8221; Smart said. &#8220;This arena speaks to it. It&#8217;s fabulous. The baseball facility going through a great renovation. It&#8217;s going to put it at the top of the curve in the Sunbelt Conference. The football stadium is fabulous.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banquet attendees were treated to a meal before watching videos honoring each inductee as they were enshrined. The voice of Trojan Athletics, Barry McKnight, served as host and Chancellor Jack Hawkins gave a speech honoring Troy Athletics and all of their inductees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This town is growing and is excited,&#8221; Amos said. &#8220;Look out people, here comes Troy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Over the weekend several important figures in Trojan Athletics history were enshrined forever in the 11th Troy Sports Hall of Fame Banquet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very excited,&#8221; said inductee Carl Hollis. &#8220;Wondering was it true or somebody was playing a joke on me. It was very exciting. Overjoyed me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There were seven total&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/18\/troy-inducts-seven-new-members-into-sports-hall-of-fame\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}