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TCU Block T Association Announces 2023 Hall of Fame Class

Nine new members set to be inducted into Athletics Hall of Fame in September

FORT WORTH – TCU Athletics and the TCU Block T Association announced the Hall of Fame Class of 2023 on Sunday.
 
The 2023 induction class includes the 1983 women's golf team, Scott Atchison '99 (baseball), Ricky "Tank" Carder '11 (football), Kishelle Paul-Guy '09 (track & field), Matthew Purke '13 (baseball), Sarah Scherer-Oursland '13 (rifle) and Carrie von Uhlit '10 (equestrian) as the 55th class. David Medanich '79 (men's soccer) is the Vintage Category honoree, while longtime athletics trainer Chris Hall '83 is the Special Contributor recipient.
 
The 2023 class will be inducted on Thursday, Sept. 28, in a ceremony at TCU's Brown-Lupton University Union. They will also be recognized at TCU's Sept. 30 home football game versus West Virginia.
 
"The Block T Association is proud to announce our distinguished 2023 TCU Hall of Fame class," said Director of the Block T Association Jill Kramer. "Thank you to our membership for their time and consideration in the nomination process, as well as the diligence and conscientiousness of our Executive and Advisory Boards.  We are looking forward to celebrating this year's prestigious TCU Hall of Fame class!" 
 
The 1983 women's golf team, which consisted of head coach Fred Warren, Marci Bozarth, Kris Hanson, Anne Kelly, Jenny Lidback, Rita Moore and Rae Rothfelder-Deal, won the 1983 NCAA women's golf National Championship that was held in Athens, Ga. The team became the first TCU women's program to win a national championship in any sport. Bozarth, Lidback and Moore were named All-Southwest Conference honorees, while Bozarth and Lidback also went on to earn All-American honors.
 
Atchison was a standout pitcher for the Horned Frogs from 1995-99, earning All-Southwest Conference honors in 1995 and 1996 and then being named All-Western Athletic Conference in 1999. He led TCU in wins and innings pitched in 1995, and did so again in 1999, while also leading the squad in earned run average. He would go on to earn the program's Outstanding Pitcher Award in his final season with the Frogs. Atchison was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 2004-15, playing for the Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and Cleveland Indians.
 
Carder was a three-time All-Mountain West Conference selection (2009-11), where he was also named MWC Defensive Player of the Year in both 2010 and 2011. He is a two-time All-American honoree, being named to six different All-America teams in 2010 and a pair of All-America squads in 2011. Carder was selected in the fifth round of the NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills in 2012. He played five seasons in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns (2012-16), where he tallied 50-plus tackles in 78 games played.
 
Guy was a three-time All-American at TCU, where she ran primarily third-leg for the Horned Frogs in the 4x400 relay event. She earned All-American honors in that event in 2006 (outdoor), as well as 2007 and 2009 (indoor). Guy was the Mountain West Conference Indoor Champion in 60-meter hurdles in 2006 and 2008. In addition, she was a four-time MWC Outdoor Champion in the 100-meter hurdles, coming in first-place from 2006-09. Guy still owns the school record in the 400-meter hurdles (outdoor) with a time of 57.70, which she ran in Des Moines, Iowa, back on May 26, 2007. Her 4x400 relay team also owns the school record with a time of 3:30.00 (2006).
 
Purke is TCU's all-time leader in single-season wins, totaling 16 victories in 2010. His 142 strikeouts that season ranks second-most in school history, as well. He would go on to earn All-Mountain West Conference First Team honors, in addition to being named the MWC Freshman of the Year. A 2010 All-American, Purke would be named the National Freshman of the Year that season. Despite being drafted in the first round – 14th overall – in the MLB Draft in 2009, Purke opted to attend TCU instead. He would later be drafted in the third round by the Washington Nationals in 2011. Purke made his major league debut on May 20, 2016, with the Chicago White Sox.
 
Scherer-Oursland was an eight-time All-American for the rifle team, earning the honor in both air rifle and smallbore all four years as a Horned Frog. She fired a perfect score of 600 in air rifle as a junior, which at the time, was just the second female to do so and fourth athlete overall. She helped lead TCU to team national championships in 2010 and 2012, where she was also an individual national champion in the smallbore event. Following her career at TCU, she would go on to become a two-time Olympian in 2012 and 2016.
 
Von Uhlit becomes the first-ever TCU equestrian athlete to be named to the Hall of Fame, following a decorated career in the sport. She is TCU's all-time leader in wins (89), victories in Reining (49), overall winning percentage (.739) and single-event winning percentage (.778 in Horsemanship). She also posted a program record 24 Most Outstanding Performer (MOP) awards, which included a school-record 17 MOP's in Reining. With TCU in just its second year of collegiate competition, von Uhlit would help propel the equestrian team to a Western National Championship over Georgia in 2008.
 
Medanich was a three-time All-Southwest Conference player for the Horned Frogs from 1977-79. He led the Frogs in scoring four of his five seasons on the team, while netting a school-record 93 goals overall in his career. A five-year Captain, Medanich started in every game he played in at TCU. He joins his father, Frank Medanich '44, who was inducted into TCU's Hall of Fame as a football player back in 1993.
 
Hall served as the longest tenured Athletic Trainer within the TCU Athletics department for 30 years. He became TCU's Director of Sports Medicine in 2003, becoming just the fifth head athletic trainer in school history at the time. A 1983 graduate of TCU, Hall was primarily responsible for athletic injury recognition and care, treatment and rehabilitation for the men's basketball team, as well as coordinator of all athletic training support services for the athletics department. Prior to his retirement from TCU in 2015, Hall had worked with and covered every sport that competed for the University.
 
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