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), Mary Miller-Young (track), Shelia Pettit-Austin (track), Charles Porter III (athletic supporter), and Michael Richard (baseball).
 
Tickets for the event are $75 and can be purchased at pvpanthers.com/hof2018

The Class of 2018 will also be presented in pregame ceremonies prior to Saturday's PVAMU football game vs. Alabama State at Panther Stadium.
 
1974 Women's Track Team
 
The 1974 women's track team won the National Federation Indoor Title, the SWAC Championship, and the AIAW Outdoor Championship. The team 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). The time in the sprint medley, which was posted at the Texas Relays, set an American record.
 
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.
 
2006 Baseball Team
 
The 2006 baseball team won the first SWAC championship in program history and were named Black College National Champions.
 
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.
 
The Panthers also set a school record for runs scored (448) and run differential (115) while losing a PVAMU record low seven conference games.
 
The team was the number one ranked team in the SWAC's Western Division, and went on to make the program's first appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
 
Jocelyn Adams
 
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. Adams also earned an NAIA Academic All-American scholar-athlete award.
 
Adams also became an assistant coach for the women's track program from 1990-96, producing several other conference champions and national champions. As head women's volleyball coach, Adams led the program to its first SWAC Championship in 1992.
 
Dakari Lenear

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.
 
Lenear, who also ran cross country and played football, was a three-time IT Hunter Award Recipient (1996-98), and was named PVAMU's most outstanding runner, most valuable runner, and earned the most outstanding track award in 1998.
  
John Mayes
 
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.
 
Debra Melrose-Spivey

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).
 
The versatile performer also competed in the 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, 400 meter dash, long jump, 100 hurdles, 300 hurdles, 4x100 and 4x200 meter relay teams, the sprint medley and mile relay.
 
Mary Miller-Young
 
Miller-Young was a four year All-American (1986-90) and four year All-Conference performer.
 
Miller-Young was a part of the National Championship quartet in the 1600 Meter Relay team. A winner all four years at the PV Relays, Miller-Young was a part of the 1987 SWAC Outdoor Sprint Medley Relay Champion team.
 
Miller-Young was a two-time Academic All-American (1989 and 1990), and earned SWAC Honorable mention honors for the 1600 meter relay (1989).
 
 
Shelia Pettit Austin
 
Pettit-Austin was an All-American and AIWA All-Conference performer for four years (1975-1979) in the Long Jump and was a member of the AAU National Championship team in 1978.
 
Pettit-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"). 
 
Pettit-Austin was also the Nike representor in Oregon as a panel for women's track and field in 1976.
 
Charles Porter III
 
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.
 
Porter was a color commentator for basketball games as a student, and has been a fixture on numerous football, basketball and volleyball broadcasts since 1993. He was on the microphone for the historical call of the 1998 PVAMU football win over Langston, ending the 80-game losing streak.
 
He has served as the public address announcer for numerous events on campus, and created the PantherVision online streaming concept for PVAMU Athletics, leading to streaming of Panther volleyball, football, and basketball games.
 
Michael Richard
 
In two seasons on The Hill, 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.  He led the SWAC in both batting average (.407/33^rd in nation) and stolen bases (39/8^th in nation).
 
Selected by the Oakland A's in the 11^th round of the Amateur Baseball Draft, Richard played professionally for eight years.

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