MSU Billings Accepting Nominations for Athletic Hall of Fame (Dec. 11, 2003)

BILLINGS, MT – Dr. Gary Gray, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Montana State University-Billings, announced today that the MSU Billings Athletics Department is now accepting public nominations for the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame and Distinction.  The 2004 induction ceremony and brunch is slated to take place on February 14.  Nominations for the class of 2004, which will be accepted through December 31, can be submitted by calling 657-2369 or by emailing Dr. Gray at ggray@msubillings.edu.

To be eligible for induction into the MSU Billings Athletics Hall of Fame and Distinction, a candidate must have been out of the Yellowjacket Athletics program for at least five years.  Therefore, inductees of the class of 2004 must have been away from MSU Billings since at least 1998.

It is not mandatory that an inductee graduate from MSU Billings.  Typically when a person is inducted without graduating, there are extenuating circumstances that precluded the inductee’s continuing at MSU Billings.

Nominated candidates should have distinguished themselves as student-athletes or in some other way while they were Yellowjackets or since the time that they left MSU Billings.  Some inductees into the Yellowjacket Hall of Fame have distinguished themselves in their professional fields since graduating from MSU Billings.

As of Wednesday, December 10, there have been 16 candidates nominated for this year’s induction class.  Since 1990, when the school’s hall of fame was started, there have been 95 inductees.  In recent years, induction classes have averaged approximately five inductees.