Four named to WWU Athletics Hall of Fame
Four new members, three of whom won school Athlete of the Year honors, and one who is now in charge of a major university athletics program, will be inducted into the Western Washington University Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, Feb. 6.
The four are Jerry Joyce, a three-sport athlete at Western who went on to a 30-year career as a teacher-coach, then earned recognition for wrestling officiating; Dwayne Kirkley, a men's basketball guard who led the Vikings to the NAIA National Tournament in 1994; Gina Sampson, a women's basketball center who was named Western's Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1990s, and Jim Sterk, who set a school season record for tackles as a football linebacker and is now director of athletics at Washington State University.
The four inductees bring the hall's membership to 113. The ceremony on Feb. 6, which begins at 2 p.m., will take place in the Concert Hall at the WWU Performing Arts Center. The hall's newest members also will be honored at halftime of the WWU men's and women's home basketball games that day.