A pair of legendary teams and individuals are among the 2018 Class of the Prairie View A&M Sports Hall Of Fame.
 
The Class of 2018 includes: the 1974 Women's Track Team, the 2006 Baseball Team, Jocelyn Adams (track), Dakari Lenear (track), John Mayes (athletic supporter), Debra Melrose-Spivey (track), Shelia Pettit-Austin (track), Charles Porter III (athletic supporter), Michael Richard (baseball), and Mary Miller-Young (track). 
 
This year's class will be officially enshrined on Friday, November 16 at 7 p.m. in the Willie A. Tempton, Sr. Memorial Student Center. To purchase tickets to the event, visit pvpanthers.com/hof2018.
 
The 1974 women's track team was ranked #1 in the world in both the Sprint Medley (1:40.6) and the mile relay (3:46.8), and was ranked number two in the nation in the 440 relay (45.6). All-American quarter-miler Debra Sapenter was #2 in the nation (54.6). Shirley Williams (10.6) was third in the nation in the 100-meter dash, and Carol Cummings (10.7) ranked fourth.
 
The 2006 baseball team won the first SWAC championship in program history and were named Black College National Championship. Among the accolades, the team posted the highest winning percentage in school history in both overall (.600) and conference play (.708) in winning a school-record 33 games.
 
Adams was a four-time SWAC indoor champion and four time NAIA outdoor national champion (1984-87), was an NAIA indoor champion at 400 meters (1986), and a 1987 NCAA outdoor track and field All American. She was an eight-time NAIA All-American and the NAIA national runner up in the 200 and 400 meter dash.
 
Lenear was a two-time NAIA All-American (1996-97) winning 1^st place at 400 meters while also competing in the 800 meter dash and the mile relay. He finished fifth in the 800 nationally in 1997, and was the anchor leg on the school-record mile-relay team (3.02.04) in 1997.
 
Mayes was an athletic trainer at PVAMU for 22 years, and spent more than a decade as head athletic trainer over Panther Athletics. He also served as an instructor in PVAMU's College of Education is active on numerous local and national committees in the field of athletic training.
 
Melrose-Spivey was a SWAC-record holder in the 400 meter hurdles, and ranked in the top three nationally in the category three years in a row (3^rd in 1978, 2^nd in 1979 and 1980). Melrose-Spivey won the SWAC indoor championship in 1979-80) and the SWAC outdoor championship three straight years (1977-79). She was a part of the indoor world-record 4x400 meter relay team (1978) and was a four-time All-American (1977-80).
 
Pettit-Austin was an All-American and All-Conference AIAW performer for four years (1975-1979) in the Long Jump and was a member of the AAU National Championship team in 1978. Austin was a two-time winner in the long jump in the Olympic Sports Festival (1977 at 20'8" and 1978 at 21'3"), and won the long jump in the 1^st Muhammad Ali Track and Field meet (1978 at 20'9"). 
 
Porter, a three-year starter at tight end for the Panthers in the mid-80s, has been the Voice of the Panthers for nearly 30 years. He has served as the public address announcer for numerous events on campus, and created the PantherVision online streaming concept for PVAMU Athletics.
 
Richard was a two-time SWAC first-team performer at shortstop (2006, 2007), helping the Panthers to back-to-back SWAC Championships. As a senior, Richard was named All Western Division First Team, SWAC Player of the Year, SWAC Hitter of the Year, NCAA Division I All Region Second Team, Black College Baseball Elite Team First Team, and Louisville Slugger All American Third Team.  Selected by the Oakland A's in the 11^th round of the Amateur Baseball Draft, Richard played professional for eight years.
 
Miller-Young was a four year All-American (1986-90) and four year All-Conference performer, and a part of the National Championship quartet in the 1600 Meter Relay team. A winner all four years at the PV Relays, Young-Miller was a part of the 1987 SWAC Outdoor Sprint Medley Relay Champion team.
 

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