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By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fort Hays State Athletics will welcome seven new members into the Tiger Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, September 24, 2022. The inductees going into the Hall of Fame this year include Jon Nelson (Track & Field\/Cross Country, 1970-74), Fred Campbell (Men’s Basketball, 1984-86), Steve Broxterman (Track & Field, 1986-88), Greg Yost (Football, 1987-90), Damian Evans (Men’s Basketball, 1990-92), Derek Pomeroy (Baseball, 1992-93), and Shelby White (Women’s Golf, 2004-07).

The induction ceremony will take place the morning of Saturday, September 24 inside the Memorial Union on the campus of Fort Hays State University. Registration for the invitation only event begins at 9 AM and the ceremony begins at 10 AM. The new Hall of Fame class will then be recognized publicly at halftime of the Fort Hays State vs. Missouri Southern football game, which begins at 7 PM.

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Jon\nNelson (Track & Field\/Cross Country, 1970-74)<\/strong>
\nA native of Johnson, Kansas, Jon Nelson was the 1973 NAIA Indoor National\nChampion in the 1000-yard run with a time of 2:12.9. He was also a member of\nthe indoor national runner-up 2-mile relay team in 1973. A year earlier in\n1972, Nelson finished third in the 800 meters at the outdoor national\nchampionships. He was a three-time All-America performer in track and field and\ntwice a conference individual champion in the outdoor 880-yard run. He was a\nnational qualifier three consecutive years for the NAIA Outdoor Championships\nfrom 1972-74. Nelson was also a steady contributor in cross country, helping\nthe team to a conference title in 1972, a year in which he earned\nall-conference honors.





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Fred Campbell (Men’s Basketball,\n1984-86)<\/strong>
\nA native of Macon, Georgia, Fred Campbell played basketball at Fort Hays State\nfrom 1984-86 after transferring from Crowder College. Campbell was an\nAll-America Second Team selection as a senior in 1985-86 and a two-time\nAll-CSIC selection. He helped the Tigers to a second-straight NAIA National\nChampionship in 1984-85 as a junior. The Tigers had a record of 60-12 in\nCampbell’s two years with the program and he finished with 1,250 points,\nranking sixth in career scoring at the completion of his career. Campbell\naveraged 20.5 points and 9.4 rebounds per game his senior year of 1985-86 to\nearn All-America status, finishing with a total of 698 points and 318 rebounds.\nThe 698 points was second-most at FHSU for a single-season at the time, only\nbehind 1984-85 teammate Edgar Eason’s 745. Campbell had 552 points during his\njunior year, averaging 14.5 per game. Campbell is one of 23 1,000-point scorers\nin the program’s history. He produced the third-most points of any two-year\nplayer in the program’s history, only behind Dennis Edwards (1993-95) and Mark\nHarris (1986-88). Campbell went on to play in the NBA summer league before\nbeginning a professional career overseas in Portugal in 1989. Campbell played\nprofessional basketball for a staggering 34 years, retiring this year at the\nage of 60. In addition to Portugal, he also played professionally in Austria,\nSpain, France, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Belgium and 18 years in Israel, where he\ncurrently resides with his family.


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Steve Broxterman (Track & Field,\n1986-88)<\/strong>
\nA native of Baileyville, Kansas, Steve Broxterman was the 1988 NAIA indoor\nnational champion in the high jump as a senior, clearing a personal best 7\nfeet, 1 inch. That effort still owns a share of the indoor school record today,\nalso cleared by Don Carter in 1985. He was the CSIC champion in the event that\nyear as well. Overall, Broxterman was a two-time NAIA All-America performer,\nalso earning the distinction in 1987. His best effort as a junior in 1987 was 6\nfeet, 10 inches. He was twice an all-conference performer and a four-time\nall-district performer. Broxterman’s national title in 1988 helped the team to\na fourth-place finish at indoor nationals. He was also a national qualifier in\nthe high jump while he was at Highland (Kan.) Community College before\ntransferring to FHSU for his final two years.





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Greg Yost (Football, 1987-90)<\/strong>
\nA native of Gorham, Kansas, Greg Yost played football at Fort Hays State from\n1987-90. He was an All-America First Team selection as a defensive lineman his\nsenior year of 1990 and was an All-CSIC First Team selection in both 1989 and\n1990. Overall, he was a three-time all-conference selection. Yost was a\nfour-year starter for the Tigers, playing in a total of 35 games. He played\nonly three games his sophomore year after suffering a season-ending injury. In\n1990 as a senior, he produced a staggering 97 tackles, nine sacks, and 17\ntackles for loss, and led the team in pass breakups with 12 from his defensive\ntackle position to earn the All-America First Team selection. He helped the\nTigers to a record of 8-4 in 1990 and an appearance in the NAIA national\nplayoffs, the final season before FHSU made its full transition to the NCAA.\nYost set career records for both sacks and tackles for loss at FHSU. He finished\nwith 20 sacks and 43 tackles for loss in his career. Though the sacks record\nhas only been topped twice, he still owns the tackles for loss record. He had\n225 tackles over his four seasons at FHSU.




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Damian Evans (Men’s Basketball,\n1990-92)<\/strong>
\nA native of Chicago, Illinois, Damian Evans played two seasons at Fort Hays\nState from 1990-92 after transferring from Kings River Community College in\nCalifornia. He was an NAIA All-America selection as a junior, and an All-RMAC\nFirst Team selection each of his seasons as a Tiger. As a junior in 1990-91,\nEvans averaged 21.9 points per game, scoring in double figures all 30 games. He\nscored at least 30 points in a game six times that season, including a\ncareer-high 38 against Emporia State, and also averaged 4.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists\nper game. His 161 free throws made in 1990-91 was third best at FHSU for a\nseason at the time, but still ranks fourth today. He helped FHSU set a new\nschool record for scoring average that season at 90.4 points per game, only to\nbe topped by the 1994-95 and 1995-96 squads a few years later. As a senior in\n1991-92, Evans averaged 15.9 points per game leading an FHSU team that won the\nRocky Mountain Athletic Conference title and had four players average double\nfigures in scoring. He added 4.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game that season.\nEvans scored 1,085 points in his career, one of 23 1,000-point scorers in FHSU\nhistory, and his 19.0 points per game scoring average is tied for fifth-best in\nschool history. He is one of only seven players in the program’s history to\nscore at least 1,000 points in just a two-year career at FHSU, and he joins\ncareer scoring average leader Dennis Edwards as the only two of those seven\nthat played less than 60 games in their careers at FHSU.


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Derek Pomeroy (Baseball, 1992-93)<\/strong>
\nA native of Topeka, Kansas, Derek Pomeroy was a member of the Tiger Baseball\nteam for two years from 1992 to 1993 after transferring from Barton County\nCommunity College. He was an All-RMAC and All-District selection in 1992 as a\njunior hitting .432 with 26 extra-base hits (16 doubles, 2 triples, 8 home\nruns) and 44 RBIs. His .432 batting average was just one point shy of the\nschool record at that time and it led the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.\nHe carried a 27-game hitting streak over into his senior year and went on to\nbreak the NCAA Division II hit streak record by hitting safely in 34\nconsecutive games, breaking the old mark by one game. The streak lasted from\nMarch 31, 1992 to March 17, 1993. His record stood for a year before it was\nbroken in 1994 by a streak of 38. Pomeroy backed up his strong junior season by\nearning Mile High Intercollegiate Baseball League Co-Player of the Year honors\nas a senior with a .380 batting average, 13 doubles, 7 home runs, and 53 RBIs.\nHe was also an All-Central Region selection that season. Pomeroy set the school\nrecord for career batting average at .405 in 1993 before that was eventually\nbroken by two other Tiger Sports Hall of Fame members – Jerry Valdez in 1997\n(.408) and Jeff Bieker in 2005 (.421). His .685 slugging percentage was\nsecond-best in school history at the completion of his career.


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Shelby White (Women’s Golf, 2004-07)<\/strong>
\nA native of Dodge City, Kansas, Shelby White, was one of the top individual\ngolfers in women’s program history. In three years at Fort Hays State, White\nwon nine tournaments and collected 21 Top-10 finishes. In 2005-06 as a\nsophomore, she was the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Year\nand was the individual medalist at the RMAC Championships. She qualified for\nthe NCAA West Regional that year. She was a three-time All-RMAC selection in\ngolf and a member of the RMAC All-Academic Team.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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