Pictured (l-r) Al Wilcox (father of Bill Wilcox), Chris Stormer, Terry Sprinkle, Paul Gray, Marcia Luigs and Joe Luigs
Athletic Hall of Fame adds six Former Hanover athletic standouts Paul Gray ’92, Terry Sprinkle ’84, Chris Stormer ’99 and Bill Wilcox ’01, along with longtime golf contributors Joe ’65 and Marcia Burks Luigs ’67, were inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame Oct. 22.
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Gray, Hanover’s outstanding senior male athlete in 1992, played four seasons with the football and golf squads. On the gridiron, he was a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) first-team all-American and the Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference (ICAC) most valuable player as a senior. He set a program record with 3,703 total yards that season and still holds school singlegame records for passing yards (630), passing attempts (92) and touchdowns (seven) - all of which came against Georgetown College in a 1991 contest.
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Sprinkle was a four-year standout for Hanover’s women’s basketball and volleyball teams. A four-year starter for the basketball squad, she averaged 18.4 points per game for her career and was the program’s career scoring leader at the time of her graduation with 1,470 points. A two-time first-team all-NAIA District 21 selection, she led the team in scoring (18.1), rebounds (10.5), assists (3.4), steals (2.6), and blocked shots during her senior campaign. Stormer, the College’s outstanding senior male athlete in 1999, was a four-year member of Hanover’s football squad and ranks as the most-accurate quarterback in school history. He holds program records for pass completions in a game (44), career pass-completion percentage (65.2 percent), season
completion percentage (67.5 percent) and completion percentage in a game (88.6 percent). He earned National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III second-team all-American honors as a junior, and, as a senior, was the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference’s most valuable player and an honorable-mention all-American. Wilcox, who currently resides in Australia, was a standout for both Hanover’s football and track & field teams. A three-time all-conference selection, he finished his gridiron career ranked third in school history with 4,448 all-purpose yards and fourth with 2,160 rushing yards. He earned the Heartland Conference’s most valuable field performance award as a junior after winning the league’s javelin and triple jump titles. He continues to hold the program’s indoor long jump record (21feet, four-inches). The Luigs have been fixtures in the United States Golf Association (USGA) and the worlds of amateur and collegiate golf through the past 30 years. The couple has received numerous awards from the USGA, including the Ike Granger Award for 25 years of volunteer service. Both were inducted into the Indiana Golf Hall of Fame in 2003. Joe Luigs, a three-time all-Hoosier Collegiate Conference golfer while at Hanover, has served as an official in charge of more than 70 USGA qualifiers and has worked at numerous USGA national championships, including the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open and U.S. Senior Open. He was chairman of the
USGA Women’s Amateur in 2007 and has also officiated the NCAA men’s and women’s championships and several world amateur team championships. He was vice president of Western Golf Association and a trustee of the Evans Scholars Foundation, which each year provides full-tuition and housing college scholarships for golf caddies. He also is a past president at Crooked Stick Golf Course in Carmel, Ind., and has sponsored the Big Four tournament - annually featuring Hanover, Butler University, DePauw University and Wabash College at the course for 34 years. In 2010, he was presented with the USGA’s Joe Dey Award for his contributions to golf. Marcia Luigs, a member of Hanover’s class of 1967, has been a member of the USGA women’s committee since 1990. She served as chair - the highest position in women’s golf - from 2005-06, was vice-chair in 2003-04, and previously was chair of the USGA girl’s junior championship committee from 1994-98. She also serves the Women’s Western Golf Association and the Women’s TRANS National Golf Association. She was captain of the U.S. squad at the women’s World Amateur Team Championships in Adelaide, Australia, in 2008. In addition, she has served as a rules official for numerous events, including the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open, women’s British Open, U.S. Senior Open, NCAA women’s championship and several world amateur team championships.