MEMPHIS – Rhodes College has announced the Hall of Fame Class of 2019. The induction ceremony will be held on Friday, November 15^th on Rhodes' campus during Homecoming weekend. The inductees will also be announced at halftime of Saturday's football contest.
 
This year's class features inductees from two teams as well as four individuals, ranging from class years of 1981 through 2008. 

1993 & 1994 Men's Soccer Teams - The 25th anniversary 1994 men's soccer team was the first in program history to advance to the NCAA Tournament while the 1993 team was the first ever regionally ranked in program history and the first team to travel and compete abroad. The 1993 squad began the year in the Czech Republic before completing a 11-1-4 season which included a 5-0-1 SCAC record and SCAC Championship. Nine Lynx earned All-Conference honors including Hall of Famer Neil Brunetz who was tabbed SCAC Co-Player of the Year as a freshman after scoring 15 goals. Head coach, Andy Marcinko was named SCAC Coach of the Year. The 1994 team went 15-5-1 and 5-2 in the SCAC and was ranked as high as 14th nationally, the first nationally ranked team in school history. That team also had nine All-SCAC honorees while Brunetz again earned conference Player of the Year honors. In their first ever trip to the NCAA Tournament was one of four NCAA appearances in five years. Both team rosters can be found below.

Matt Bakke, Men's Basketball ('81) - Matt Bakke led two of the best teams in Southwestern men's basketball history as point guard. He led the team in assists and minutes played, while scoring eight points per game and guarding the best guards on opposing teams. Bakke was the glue that held the team together and made everyone better. He led the Lynx to national rankings in 1980 and 1981 as the Lynx earned a ranking as high as seventh in the nation. According to Hall of Fame coach Herb Hilgeman, "Bakke was such a competitor who could do it all - lead, pass, shoot, play defense and make clutch plays. He was the coach on the court." During the 1979-80 and 1980-81 seasons, the Lynx won the conference and played in the NCAA Tournament. He is also in the Rhodes Hall of Fame as a member of the 1980-81 men's basketball team, inducted in 2017 as well as Southwest Tennessee Community College's Hall of Fame, inducted in 2004, for his playing days (1977-79) before joining the Southwestern squad. After graduation, Bakke was an assistant coach at Rhodes for eight years. He then went on to be a successful high school coach at Memphis University School for basketball, cross country and track where he is now the assistant athletic director.

Ashley (Farrell) Galmish, Women's Basketball ('08) - Farrell was a four-year standout for the Lynx and two-time captain who garnered the Rebecca Rish-Gay Award her senior year. She was the SCAC Newcomer of the Year after averaging 13.4 points per game, going 33-of-69 from beyond the arc as a freshman. That year she was the only first year player named to the All-SCAC squads. Farrell came back firing hot her sophomore season. She led all of NCAA Division III in three-point field goal percentage, still an SCAC record, going 47-of-78 (.618). She averaged 14.7 points per game to help propel her team to an 18-8 season, the most wins in school history at the time, earning her first team All-SCAC and All-Region accolades. During her junior campaign, Farrell averaged 19.0 ppg, was first team All-SCAC and All-Region before picking up honorable mention All-American honors by DIII News. She missed four games due to injury her senior year but still averaged 18.0 ppg and earned second team All-SCAC honors. She totaled 1,622 points and was the 11th all-time leading scorer in SCAC history and is fourth all-time at Rhodes. Farrell is Rhodes' all-time career three-point field goal percentage leader (.435) and is third all-time in the SCAC record books.

Greg Ritter, Football/Baseball ('93/'94) - Ritter was a staple back for the Lynx who also played baseball, was a J. Hal Daughdrill Award recipient, Seidman Trophy recipient and a member of Rhodes' first graduating class of the M.S. in Accounting. Football: Ritter is either third or fourth in multiple Rhodes football statistical categories including career rushing yards (2,037), single season rushing (1,126), and single season rushing touchdowns (11) and single season total touchdowns (11). He was the first Rhodes player to rush for more than 1,000 yds in a season and broke the single season record held by Hall of Famer Steve Becton. Ritter totaled 17 touchdowns, averaged 5.0 yds per carry, and made 37 receptions for 320 yds. He garnered first team all-conference honors as a back and was a two-time SCAC Offensive Player of the Week that same season. Ritter earned the J. Hal Daughdrill Award his senior year as well as the National Football Foundation's Scholar Athlete award. He played all three running back positions his sophomore and junior seasons, blocking more than he ran, before becoming the featured back in a new offense his senior year. Dr. Daughdrill was quoted as saying when awarding Greg the Daughdrill Award, "The spirit you portrayed in every game, and your punishing style of running, will long be remembered on Fargason Field." Baseball: Ritter was a three-year starter for the Lynx in his four-year baseball career with a .292 average, 92 games played, 68 hits, 46 runs scored, 14 doubles, three home runs and 26 RBI. In 92 games played he yielded a .986 fielding percentage. To cap off his senior campaign, Ritter earned the Seidman Trophy in 1993.

Dan Swanstrom, Football ('05) - One of the top quarterbacks in Rhodes history, two-time captain Dan Swanstrom held program records in single season passing yards and total offense from 2002-2016. He was the career passing yards and total offense leader from his senior season (2004) until 2017. Swanstrom took over the leaderboard during his playing days after breaking four of Hall of Famer Craig Solomon's records. Swanstrom is second all-time at Rhodes in career total offense (8,347 yards), third all-time in passing touchdowns (55). His sophomore and junior seasons he threw for 2,622 and 2,634 yards respectively and during his junior campaign he totaled 2,947 yards of total offense, the seventh highest average in SCAC history and 12th highest in NCAA Division III. He earned second team All-SCAC honors in 2002 and 2004. Swanstrom was named the 2003 SCAC Co-Offensive Player of the Year, one of four Rhodes players to ever earn SCAC Player of the Year honors. He held two of the top three single game total offense marks until 2017, with 488 yards against Sewanee in 2002 and 422 yards against Rose-Hulman in 2004. His senior year he was a finalist for the prestigious Gagliardi Award for the most outstanding Division III football player, one of only 10 Division III players selected nationally, and  one of only two Rhodes football players ever selected as a finalist. In SCAC career history, Swanstrom ranks fifth in total yards of offense (8,347), sixth in total passing yards (7,540), seventh in total yards of offense per game (214), eighth in career passing touchdowns (55), and 12th in total passing yards per game (193.3). He also played in the German Football League with the Darmstadt Diamonds after graduation. Swanstrom continues his football career as a coach to this day. After coaching stints at Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins and the University of Redlands, Swanstrom has been the head coach at Ithaca College since 2017, going 16-3 with two Liberty League regular season championships. At Penn, they won two Ivy League Championships and at Redlands were Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champions. During his six-year tenure at Johns Hopkins, the Blue Jays won four Centennial Conference championships going 48-10.

1994 Men's Soccer Roster: James Beaver, Brian Biffle*, Philip Bittel*, Charles Brightwell*, Neil Brunetz*, Jorge De Castro*, Alper Cetingok*, Chris Culpepper, William Davis, David Francy, Nate Gentry, William Gordon*, James Heitert, Michael Hughes*, Zac Ives*, Don Keeney*, Bobby Lessentine, RJ McSorley*, Hansen Rada*, Jimmy Renehan*, Danny Riederer*, Chris Theofiledes*, Charles Watson, Andy Wildman*...Coaches for both teams: head coach Andy Marcinko and assistant coach Darren Ambrose

1993 Men's Soccer Roster: All those asterisks above including: Chris Gerrish, Everette Herring, Will Jackson, Justin Klestinski, Sean McCrary, Brian O'Neill, Bart Turner, Brent Vanderzee, Brian Wamhoff, Matt Westfall, Josh Wilson