HALL OF FAME Class of 2016 THE 11 MEMBERS OF THE CLEMSON ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME WILL BE INDUCTED THIS WEEKEND AND JOIN THE 286 TIGERS ALREADY IN CLEMSON’S PRESTIGIOUS CLUB. BY CLAIRE FISCHER
NIKKIE BOUYER Women’s Track & Field
LOU CORDILEONE Football & Baseball
JEB FLESCH Football
ROD GARDNER Football
CATHY HOFER Women’s Tennis
ANDY JOHNSTON
Women’s Tennis Coach & Football Administrator
JAN KEMMERLING Women’s Swimming
KENT KINNEAR Men’s Tennis
PAUL RUTENIS Men’s Soccer
DENNY WALLING Baseball
CHRIS WHITNEY 128
Men’s Basketball
NIKKIE BOUYER
LOU CORDILEONE
TRACK & FIELD • 1996-99
FOOTBALL & BASEBALL • 1957-59
Nikkie Bouyer was a five-time All-American at Clemson, including three indoor and two outdoor honors. That is tied for the sixth-most All-America honors in program history. Bouyer is one of just five women in school history to be named an All-American multiple times in indoor and outdoor track. During her career with the Tigers in the late 1990s, Bouyer was a 10-time All-ACC performer and a threetime ACC champion, once each in the 200m, 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay events. Bouyer also captured the 200m title at the 1998 ACC Outdoor Championships. Bouyer is one of just 10 women’s track performers to earn All-ACC honors at least 10 times at the indoor and outdoor championships combined. In the 1998 season, Bouyer finished sixth in the nation in the 55m hurdles indoors with a time of 7.62. She is among the top 10 of Clemson’s career leaders in the indoor 200m, 60m hurdles, 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles. Bouyer is the only female 400m hurdler in Clemson history to be named an All-American. She finished sixth in that event at the NCAA meet in 1999 with a time of 57.74. Clemson won the ACC outdoor championship that year. Bouyer, who becomes the eighth women’s track & field athlete inducted into the Clemson Hall of Fame, was named to the ACC 50-Year Anniversary team in 2002.
Lou Cordileone started for Frank Howard in football and Bill Wilhelm in baseball in 1959. He should be inducted into the Clemson Hall of Fame for that alone. He excelled in both sports. Cordileone was a firstteam Academic All-American and on-field All-American in 1959 for Howard. He was also a standout baseball player in the spring of 1959, as he started for the Tigers in the College World Series on Wilhelm’s second team. Cordileone was a starting offensive guard on the 1958 and 1959 ACC title teams. It marked the first time Clemson won the ACC in consecutive seasons. Both teams finished with top-20 seasons, as the 1958 team was No. 12 by AP and the 1959 team finished No. 11 by AP. The 1959 squad would have finished higher had there been a post-bowl poll. The Tigers defeated No. 7 TCU in the first Bluebonnet Bowl. At the end of his career, he was selected for the Hula Bowl and College All Star Game in Chicago. He was the first Tiger chosen for the Hula Bowl. He was drafted in the first round by the Giants with the No. 12 overall pick in 1960. The Jersey City, N.J., native played for the Giants in 1960 and was then involved in one of the most famous trades in the 1960s, as he was traded to the 49ers for Y.A. Tittle. He played for the Rams and Steelers in 1962, then for the Steelers in 1963. He retired after the 1963 season, then came out of retirement to play for the expansion Saints in 1967 and 1968. Cordileone, who is now 79, was named to Clemson’s All-Centennial team in 1996.