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Six Individuals and the 2004 Football Team Earn Hall of Fame Entry

Three Eastern Washington University All-America football players and three other individuals will join the 2004 football team as this year’s inductees into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame. The six individuals and team will be honored on Oct. 10 at EWU as part of the 22nd class of inductees.

The football players include quarterback Erik Meyer (2001-2005) and his favorite target, running back turned wide receiver Eric Kimble (2001-2005). The pair hooked-up a total of 201 times for 3,169 yards and 35 touchdowns in four seasons, breaking more than a dozen school records each and making their way up Big Sky Conference and NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) career listings.

Meyer and Kimble were a part of the 2004 Eagle squad, coached by Paul Wulff, which shared the Big Sky regular season title with Montana and went on to defeat No. 1 ranked and top-seeded Southern Illinois in the first round of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs (then I-AA). The Eagles lost their first two games of the season, but won nine of their next 10 to finish the year 9-4 overall and 6-1 in the league.

Meyer and Kimble were both two-time All-Americans, as was running back Jesse Chatman (1998-2001), who rounds out the trio of football players to be inducted. Chatman led FCS in rushing with 2,096 yards as a junior in 2001, then elected to skip his senior season to pursue his professional football dreams and eventually played seven seasons in the National Football League.

The other inductees include men’s basketball coach Steve Aggers (1995-2000), track and field standout Nancy Kuiper (1990-91) and women’s basketball point guard Nancy Sugarman (Taucher), who was at Eastern from 1988-92.

Aggers helped re-build Eastern’s basketball program, guiding the Eagles to their first-ever Big Sky regular season title in 2000. Kuiper, a four-time Big Sky champion in the shot put and two-time champ in the discus, was Eastern’s first-ever female representative at the NCAA Championships, both indoors and outdoors in 1991. Taucher earned first team All-Big Sky Conference honors in both 1991 and 1992, finishing her career with 1,105 points and 341 assists while playing all 109 Eastern games from 1989-92, including starts in her last 95 contests.

The induction ceremony will take place on Oct. 10 in conjunction with Eastern’s Homecoming football game versus Northern Colorado. Time and details for the ceremony will be announced, but is expected to take place in the late morning at the Pence Union Building's Nysether Community Room on the EWU campus in Cheney. More information, including cost and a link for guests to register, will be available this summer at http://GOEAGS.COM/HOF.

ABOUT THE EWU ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

As a way of honoring former athletes, coaches, contributors and teams, the Eastern Washington University Athletic Hall of Fame was established in 1996. The Hall of Fame is located on the East End of the Special Events Pavilion. A plaque permanently honoring each inductee is displayed. A 15-member Hall of Fame Selection Committee vote on a list of nominated candidates presented by the Hall of Fame Executive Committee. Inductees must receive a two-thirds vote of all selection committee members, with the final decision made by the executive committee. Nominations can be received at any time. For more information, call 509-359-6334 or e-mail Matt Kushar (mkushar@ewu.edu). CLICK HERE for nominating criteria.

To submit a nomination, send an email to mkushar@ewu.edu

OTHER HONORED GROUPS

Commemorating the 100th year of football at Eastern, the athletic department named 100 of the top players in school history to the "100 for 100" All-Time Football Team in the summer of 2008. View the list in its entirety here.

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