Four University alumni with degrees dating from the '50s to the '90s have been named to the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame.
The most recent recipients of the statewide honor are Bill Collick, HNS '75, Delaware State University director of athletics; Bob Hannah, HNS '61, UD baseball coach; Felmon Motley, CHEP '55, standout Del State football player and retired school administrator; and Janet Smith, CHEP '95EDD, UD lacrosse coach.
Collick produced 11 straight winning football seasons and 62 first team all Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) players at Delaware State from 1985-96. From 1981-84, Collick served as defensive coordinator for Delaware State coach Joe Purzycki, HNS '71, CHEP '77M. He was named MEAC Coach of the Year in 1985 and won or shared five MEAC football championships. He lives in Milton, Del.
Hannah, who became coach of the Blue Hens in 1965, was ranked 25th on the all-time active coaches list and was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association in 1991. He has been named conference coach of the year six times and Eastern District coach of the year four times. Under his instruction, UD baseball teams have won 16 regular-season titles, played in seven regional tournaments and qualified for the 1970 College World Series.
Motley, who lives in Dover, was a fullback and lineman on Del State's first unbeaten team in 1942. Also a track standout, he ran a 9.9-second 100-yard dash for the Hornets that same year. He has spent 37 years as a teacher and guidance counselor in Dover, Seaford and Wilmington.
Smith led the UD women's lacrosse team to four East Coast Conference titles, and she was voted ECC coach of the year in 1984 and 1989. Smith coached nine lacrosse All-Americans and is the only Delaware coach to win a Division I national title.