{"id":11534,"date":"2024-08-01T15:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/?p=11534"},"modified":"2024-08-01T15:39:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:39:01","slug":"georgia-southern-athletics-2024-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2024\/08\/01\/georgia-southern-athletics-2024-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Southern Athletics 2024 Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1884\" height=\"1256\" src=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/GS-HALLofFAME.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/GS-HALLofFAME.jpg 1884w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/GS-HALLofFAME-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/GS-HALLofFAME-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/GS-HALLofFAME-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/GS-HALLofFAME-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/\/GS-HALLofFAME-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1884px) 100vw, 1884px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, June 17, 2024, the <strong>Georgia Southern Department of Athletics<\/strong> announced its <strong>Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2024<\/strong>, a group of eight that left a lasting mark on Eagle Athletics and will be bestowed the highest honor later this fall.<br>The 2024 class of inductees includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Leonard Bevill,<\/strong> a past Athletic Foundation Chair and a generous supporter of Georgia Southern Athletics; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Caroline Bevillard<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>record-setting swimmer who also earned Academic All-America honors; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Matt Easterday<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>an All-American who still stands as one of the best-hitting baseball players in program history; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Darryl Hopkins<\/strong>, a versatile slotback who played a large role in Georgia Southern&#8217;s championship football seasons; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Andreas Koth<\/strong>, a key tennis player at Georgia Southern and national-champion coach at Armstrong State; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jerick McKinnon,<\/strong> a do-it-all athlete on the football field who has won two Super Bowl rings with the Kansas City Chiefs; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kellie Mitchell John<\/strong>, one of the best track runners in SoCon history; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mike Sanders<\/strong>, a passionate supporter of Georgia Southern Athletics who served as a member and chair of various boards and committees on campus and for athletics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024 class will be inducted at a Hall of Fame banquet during the Marshall football weekend, <strong>Oct. 11 and 12.<\/strong> The eight additions bring the total number of former coaches, student-athletes, supporters and administrators in the Georgia Southern Athletics Hall of Fame to 176.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, June 17, 2024, the Georgia Southern Department of Athletics announced its Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2024, a group of eight that left a lasting mark on Eagle Athletics and will be bestowed the highest honor later this fall.The 2024 class of inductees includes: The 2024 class will be inducted at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-11534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-summer-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}