Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2015 Announced
Group of 14 to be inducted weekend of Sept. 18-19
June 10, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- This fall, 14 new members will be enshrined in the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame, with 12 former student-athletes and two coaches among the honorees. The class will be inducted Sept. 18 at a dinner and introduced to the public at halftime of the Ohio State home football game against Northern Illinois Sept. 19.
The 2015 class includes Tim Anderson (football), Justin Cook (men's soccer), Terence Dials (men's basketball), Lara Dickenmann (women's soccer), Natalia Diea (women's diving), Annabelle Fago (rowing), Joey Galloway (football), Therese Hession (women's golf coach), J Jaggers (wrestling), Perry Martter (wrestling), Teresa Meyers (pistol), Dan Seimetz (baseball), Jim Tressel (football coach) and Paul Tilley (men's hockey).
The hall of fame was created in 1977 and has inducted 285 men through 2014. Anderson and Galloway will bring the total football players in the hall to 115. Cook will be the third men's soccer player inducted and Dials will be the 37th men's basketball player enshrined. Jaggers and Martter will bring the total wrestlers enshrined to 16, Seimetz is the 21st baseball player headed to the hall of fame and Tilley will be the fifth men's hockey Buckeye to join the hall, while Tressel will be the 13th coach (sixth football coach) to be inducted.
Women were first inducted into the hall in 1993, with 111 outstanding student-athletes, coaches and administrators enshrined through 2014. Diea and Fago give women's diving and rowing six inductees each, while Meyers will be the fourth member of the pistol team to be enshrined and Dickenmann the third women's soccer player honored. Hession is the seventh coach of a Buckeye women's program to earn a spot.......
Dan Seimetz Baseball, 1995-98
Dan Seimetz was a four-year letterwinner for the Ohio State baseball team from 1995-98. An NCBWA Second Team All-American and Collegiate Baseball Third Team All-American in 1997, Seimetz still holds the Ohio State records for single-season RBI (80), doubles (25) and home runs (19), all set in 1997. In addition, he garnered Mizuno and Baseball America Freshman All-American honors after hitting .396 with 20 doubles, 10 home runs and 58 RBI in 1995. The .370 career hitter and 1997 Big Ten Player of the Year was drafted in the 49th round of the 1997 amateur draft by the New York Yankees but elected to come back for his senior season.
"Thunder Dan" holds Ohio State career records in multiple categories including hits (287), doubles (71), home runs (52) and RBI (236). The four-time OSU Scholar-Athlete, three time Academic All-Big Ten pick and 1998 team captain set an Ohio State record with three home runs vs. Iowa in 1997. He helped guide the Buckeyes to a Big Ten regular-season championship in 1995, Big Ten Tournament championships in 1995 and 1997 and NCAA regional berths in 1995 and 1997.
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