Hall of Fame Class of 2011
Four former Colorado College greats - Verdel Baskin '99 (basketball), Glenn Blagg '50 (wrestling/football), Sara Fry '96 (cross country/track and field) and Ted Swan '77 (football) now are enshrined in the Colorado College Athletics Hall of Fame.
The four entered the HOF as members of its 16th class during a ceremonial dinner at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort on May 14, 2011.
Baskin, who sank 2,100 points in 98 games during his four-year career, reigns as the basketball program's all-time leading scorer. He is one of only two Tigers in history to reach the 2,000-points plateau, hitting for 38 in a game on two occcasions, and continues to hold the school single-season record with 651 as a junior in 1997-98. He also ranks No. 1 on CC's all-time charts with 511 assists and 208 steals, including a school single-season standard of 70 thefts in '97-98.
The late Blagg, a 5-11, 211-pound sophomore at the time, upset favored John Hancock, Jr., of Colorado State College to win the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference heavyweight title in 1948. Blagg went on to the national championships for the second consecutive season that year, reaching the fourth round at Lehigh University before suffering his first defeat of the campaign. He took fifth in the nation despite beating the fourth-place finisher - Arthur Archer of Illinois University - in a earlier round.
Blagg's son, Jim, accepted the Hall of Fame plaque on his father's behalf.
Fry was Colorado College's first-ever All-American in women's cross country, earning the honor for the first time as a sophomore in 1993 then repeating the feat as a senior in 1995, when she finished 26 at the NCAA Division III national meet. As a junior on the track-and-field team in 1995, she set a school record that still stands in the 10,000 meters, posting a time of 39 minutes and 8 seconds. In October 2005, she finished 20th in a field of 989 runners at Dankin's Women's Triathlon in New York City.
Swan, arguably the football team's greatest place-kicker of all time, helped the Tigers earn their last NCAA Division III playoff berth in 1975, his junior season, when they finished with a 7-2-1 record. Swan set a national college-division record of 249 points scored by kicking during his career and tied an NCAA standard with five field goals in one game. A 1973 graduate of Mullen High School, he stills owns the CC record for the longest field goal, a 55-yarder against Nebraska Wesleyan. He booted 17 that went for 40 yards or more.
