Eight all-time greats and one national championship team will make up the newest group of inductees for the Pepperdine University Athletics Hall of Fame this fall.
The inductees at the Oct. 17 event will include Simon Aspelin (men’s tennis), Marv Dunphy (men’s volleyball), Dana Jones (men’s basketball), Janna Kovacevich (women’s tennis), Sasha Poljak (men’s water polo), Steve Smith (baseball), Randy Wolf (baseball), Lindsey Wright (women’s golf) and the 2005 NCAA champion men’s volleyball team.
The ceremony will take place at the Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills
“Every year we have the honor to induct individuals and, on occasion, an entire team, to the Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame,” Pepperdine Director of Athletics John Watson said. “This year it will be my pleasure to celebrate these eight individuals and the 2005 NCAA champion men’s volleyball team for the duration of Waves Weekend and more intimately at the ceremony on October 17.”
The Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame was established in 1980. This year’s group will join 86 individuals and 12 teams that have already been enshrined. To be eligible for induction, nominees must have competed, coached for or rendered an extraordinary service to Pepperdine University athletics. After a list of nominations was gathered, Pepperdine’s Hall of Fame Committee made the decision on this year’s inductees.