Black History Month: Featured UChicago Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees

CHICAGO – As we proceed our Black Historical past Month celebration, learn extra about a few of our Black student-athlete alumni who’ve earned induction into the College of Chicago Athletics Corridor of Fame.

Frank Baker (Soccer)

• Class of 1994. Athletics Corridor of Fame induction in 2003.
• Baker was the highest operating again in UChicago soccer’s modern-era historical past (since 1969) in addition to some of the adorned. 
• Over his 4 seasons, Baker grew to become the college’s all-time main rusher with 4,283 profession yards. On the time of his commencement, he owned 4 extra college information, together with profession carries (281), season dashing yards (1,606), profession all-purpose yards (4,698) and season all-purpose yards (1,606). 
• His 1,606 dashing yards in 1993 was the college report for almost 30 years. That very same season, Baker earned All-America, Educational All-America, and College Athletic Affiliation (UAA) Participant of the Yr honors.
• A two-time Educational All-American, Baker additionally acquired an NCAA postgraduate scholarship.

Mario Springer (Wrestling)

• Class of 1994. Inducted in 2015.
• As a star grappler for the Maroons, Springer is one among solely three wrestlers in program historical past to qualify for the NCAA Championships all 4 years of his profession.
• Springer earned a pair of All-American awards at 150 kilos. He completed fifth in his weight class on the NCAA nationals in 1993 and sixth in 1994.
• Whereas competing throughout the UAA, he was a three-time weight class champion (1991, 1993, 1994) and two-time UAA Most Excellent Wrestler (1993, 1994).
• Springer was additionally honored as an Educational All-American in 1994.

Adeoye Mabogunje (Males’s Observe & Area)

• Class of 2004. Inducted in 2021.
• Mabogunje established himself as one of the best jumper of UChicago’s trendy period in males’s monitor & discipline. He completed his collegiate profession on a excessive be aware by successful the 2004 NCAA nationwide championship within the outside triple bounce.
• Mabogunje certified for the NCAA nationwide meet seven occasions between the triple bounce and excessive bounce. He was a 2003 All-American within the indoor triple bounce, and gained 4 UAA occasion titles.
• He’s the college report holder in 4 completely different occasions – indoor and outside triple bounce, and indoor and outside excessive bounce. Mabogunje has one of the best outside triple bounce mark (15.45 meters) by virtually a foot and the highest indoor triple bounce (15.35 meters) by over a foot.

Nofisatu Mojidi-Bayna (Girls’s Basketball/Observe & Area)

• Class of 2008. Inducted in 2020.
• Mojidi-Bayna produced an impactful collegiate profession in ladies’s basketball and monitor & discipline.
• On the basketball hardwood, Mojidi-Bayna led a resurgent Maroon squad that gained 71 % of its video games in her 4 years. She was a three-time All-UAA honoree, together with two First Group accolades.
• Within the UChicago ladies’s basketball profession information, Mojidi-Bayna ranks second in factors (1,399), discipline objectives (545) and steals (226).
• Mojidi-Bayna additionally submitted a number of the quickest occasions in UChicago monitor historical past – she held eight college information on the time of her commencement in occasions such because the indoor 55 meters, outside 100 meters, and indoor and outside 200 meters. She claimed 5 UAA monitor titles throughout her profession as properly.

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