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Athletics department announces new HOF inductees
Abel Prado
Issue date: 8/2/07 Section: NEWS
NT has announced its 2007 Athletic Hall of Fame Class. The new plaques that will adorn the Super Pit this coming fall include four of NT's greatest athletes: the school's all-time leading women's basketball scorer, one of the best women's soccer players who helped build the program, the best women's point guard in school history and a former men's basketball player from the late '40's.
Christy Johnson, women's soccer; Jalie Mitchell, women's basketball; Rosalyn Reades, women's basketball; and Bennie Rutherford, men's basketball, make up the four-member class and bring the total inductees in the North Texas Athletic Hall of Fame to 150.
Johnson was an integral part of the women's soccer team during the early years of its existence. She left North Texas in 2000 as the all-time leader in points, goals and shots. Her long list of accomplishments includes being an All-American in 1997 and a first-team all-central region player that year.
Rutherford was a four-year letterman in basketball in the late '40s. He was voted the T Club's Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year in 1949-50. In 1948-49, he averaged 9.6 points per game, which was the second-highest on the team. He was the Eagles' leading scorer in 1949-50 with a 16.8 points per game average and was a first-team Gulf Coast Conference selection in the same year that he scored 438 total points, the third-most in Texas.
Mitchell, 26, now spends her days as a part-time realtor for Laureate and Associates and is also the current vice president of a Compass Bank.
"I'm so excited to be inducted," Mitchell said. "I didn't think that this was going to happen, if at all, until I was 50 or 60 years old."
Considered one of the greatest players in Mean Green history, Mitchell was named all-conference all four years at NT, concluding her career as the 2002 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year. She is the Mean Green's all-time leading scorer with 1,764 points and ranks No. 1 in free throws made and attempted.
Christy Johnson, women's soccer; Jalie Mitchell, women's basketball; Rosalyn Reades, women's basketball; and Bennie Rutherford, men's basketball, make up the four-member class and bring the total inductees in the North Texas Athletic Hall of Fame to 150.
Johnson was an integral part of the women's soccer team during the early years of its existence. She left North Texas in 2000 as the all-time leader in points, goals and shots. Her long list of accomplishments includes being an All-American in 1997 and a first-team all-central region player that year.
Rutherford was a four-year letterman in basketball in the late '40s. He was voted the T Club's Most Outstanding Athlete of the Year in 1949-50. In 1948-49, he averaged 9.6 points per game, which was the second-highest on the team. He was the Eagles' leading scorer in 1949-50 with a 16.8 points per game average and was a first-team Gulf Coast Conference selection in the same year that he scored 438 total points, the third-most in Texas.
Mitchell, 26, now spends her days as a part-time realtor for Laureate and Associates and is also the current vice president of a Compass Bank.
"I'm so excited to be inducted," Mitchell said. "I didn't think that this was going to happen, if at all, until I was 50 or 60 years old."
Considered one of the greatest players in Mean Green history, Mitchell was named all-conference all four years at NT, concluding her career as the 2002 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year. She is the Mean Green's all-time leading scorer with 1,764 points and ranks No. 1 in free throws made and attempted.
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