A group of four outstanding former student athletes, including two who competed in sports not previously represented in the Colorado College Athletic Hall of Fame, were inducted as the HOF's 14th class during a ceremony at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort on May 10, 2008.
They are Douglass Corley '58 (tennis), Scott Driggers '85 (basketball and football), Mary Everett '99 (lacrosse and soccer) and Kris Hammond '80 (diving).
Corley is arguably the best tennis player ever to compete for CC. Winner of the annual Van Diest Award in 1958 as the school's most outstanding senior scholar athlete, he claimed eight Rocky Mountain Conference titles - four each in singles and doubles. He played at the U.S. National Tennis Championships in Forest Hills, N.Y., three times, and once reached the qualifying tournament for Wimbledon. In 1957, Corley won the consolation event at the National Intercollegiate Championships.
Driggers, another Van Diest Award winner, lettered all four years in football and three in basketball. He still owns a number of school records on the gridiron including most passing yards in a season (2,695 as a senior in 1984) and career (7,315). His 87-yard scoring strike to John Champion as a junior in 1983 also remains the longest touchdown pass in the history of Tiger Football. He is one of only 15 CC basketball players to score 1,000 career points, and ranks eighth all-time in career rebounds with 521.
Everett, the first female HOF inductee to have played at both the Division I and III levels, lettered three years in D-I soccer and four years in D-III lacrosse. As a senior in 1999, she led the Tiger stickers to their first-ever NCAA playoff berth. Her 29 assists and 84 points that spring remain school single-season records. She also still owns the career standards with 72 assists and 252 points. As a member of the soccer team, she collected 18 career goals and 45 points to rank among the program's top 20 in both categories.
Hammond earned four All-America certificates during his illustrious career, qualifying for the national meet all four years on both boards. He placed as high as fourth nationally, a feat he accomplished on the three-meter board as a junior in 1979 after taking eighth in the one-meter competition a year earlier. As a senior in 1980, he was seventh on the three-meter and ninth on the one-meter board. His three-meter school record of 458.60 points (11 dives) still stands.
Corley and Everett are the first tennis and women's lacrosse players to enter the Hall of Fame.
