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Media Advisory: Embry-Riddle Launches Athletics Hall of Fame

Men's Basketball Team

Four Outstanding Student-Athletes and the 2000 Men’s National Championship Basketball Team Honored

Daytona Beach, Fla., Jan. 30, 2009 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will launch its first Athletics Hall of Fame and induct four outstanding student-athletes and the members of its 2000 National Championship-winning men’s basketball team this weekend.

Rob PadgettThe new Hall of Fame, designed by 1157 Design Concepts, will be officially unveiled in the lobby of the Embry-Riddle’s ICI Center and inductees saluted on Friday, Jan. 30, at the Embry-Riddle basketball game against St. Thomas University at 7 p.m. The inaugural Hall of Fame class will be honored at a special invitation-only dinner and ceremony for inductees’ guests, University faculty and staff, and community leaders.

Abby Odom Guthrie INDUCTEES
Rob Padgett, Men’s Basketball, Class of 1997
Luke Martin, Baseball, Class of 2000
Abby (Odom) Guthrie, Women’s Soccer, Class of 2002
Jasmin Kadric, Men’s Soccer, Class of 2002
2000 Men’s Basketball National Championship Team

Jasmin Kadric WHEN
Friday, Jan. 30, 2009: Hall of Fame Salute 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009: Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & Dinner, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (Invitation Only)

WHERE
Friday Game: Embry-Riddle ICI Center, 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach
Saturday: Hilton Daytona Beach Resort, Ocean Walk Village

Luke Martin Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering, educating more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs. Doctoral programs in aviation and in engineering physics are pending approval by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) for the University to offer programs at the doctoral level. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.