UWA Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2024 Announced - University of West Alabama Athletics (2024)

General 6/28/2024 12:00:00 PM Layton Jackson, Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Communications

Inductees in Photo above: Top Left: Henry "Teakettle" Nettles, Top Center: Otha Foster III, Bottom Left: 2024 Women's Rodeo, Bottom Center: Thibault Charmey, Right: Harry Satterwhite

LIVINGSTON, Ala. – The University of West Alabama is pleased to announce the 2024 Athletics Hall of Fame Class, which will be inducted on Oct. 5.

This year's class includes Thibault Charmey, Otha Foster III, Henry "Teakettle" Nettles, Harry Satterwhite and the 2024 Women's Rodeo National Championship Team.

"This is a special class. We have back-to-back Women's Rodeo National Champions. We have an NFL Vet who is also a veteran of the Marine Corps," said Dee Outlaw, Athletic Director Emeritus and chair of the Hall of Fame committee.

"We also have our first soccer inductee, one of our oldest inductees and one of our youngest inductees. We are so proud of all these men and women for their outstanding Tiger careers."

The first UWA Athletics Hall of Fame induction was in 1981 to honor former student-athletes, coaches, students, teams and administrators who have represented the university with outstanding play, coaching, or leadership, both while on campus and/or in their careers. Since its inception, 96 members, plus two national championship teams, have been recognized.

For those wishing to submit a nomination, the form is HERE. There is a five-year waiting period following the end of their UWA career for former student-athletes. Administrators, coaches and teams have no waiting period.

The 2024 Hall of Fame celebration will take place on Saturday, Oct. 5, when the UWA football team will host Erskine College for a 2 p.m. kickoff.

Below are the individuals of each inductee:

Gulf South Conference Player of the Decade (2010-19) … All-American, All-Region, and All-GSC Forward … First All-American in UWA program history … GSC Player of the Year in 2013 and 2014 … GSC Tournament Most Outstanding Player … GSC All-Academic Team … Program leader in points (75), goals (30), shots (138), shots on goal (75), penalty kicks (6), penalty kick attempts (8) and tied for lead with 15 assists … Put up first hat trick in program history on Sept. 28, 2014 against Mississippi College … Finished UWA career with five game-winning goals.

Two-time All-GSC selection … All-Super Region 2 selection ... Recorded 96 tackles, 16 pass deflections and 10 interceptions in his two seasons as a Tiger … Earned a spot on the UWA Football Team of the Decade from 2010-2019 as a safety … Led GSC in interceptions both years he played … Shares UWA record for interceptions in a game with three against Valdosta State in 2012 … Played professionally with the Kansas City Chiefs, Toronto Argonauts, Edmonton Eskimos, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Baltimore Ravens and British Columbia Lions … Was a CFL Grey Cup Champion in 2015 … CFL West All-Star in 2018 … Recorded 222 career professional tackles, along with eight sacks and three interceptions … Served in U.S. Marine Corps.

Earned 10 varsity letters as a Tiger student-athlete … Earned three football letters as a quarterback, three basketball letters as a center and four baseball letters as a pitcher … Four-year L-Club member … Sigma Delta Sigma member … 1959 bachelor's degree from West Alabama, master's from Auburn and EED from West Georgia … Taught and coached in high school or middle school for 10 years … 11 years as principal at East Cobb Middle School … 12 years principal at Pine Mountain Middle School.

Elected two-time team captain … Played in 38 career games … Completed 677-of-1106 passing attempts (61 percent) for 7,450 yards and 67 touchdowns … Second in career passing yards and touchdown passes at UWA … third in career total offense with 7,537 yards … Finalist for 2017 Harlon Hill Award, the only finalist in West Alabama history ... 2017 Alabama Sports Writers Small College Athlete of the Year, the first UWA football player and second in school history to ever win that award ... Counselor at Manning Passing Academy ... All-Gulf South Conference ... All-South Region ... All-America ... UWA single-season records for pass attempts (495), pass completions (322), passing yards (3,421) and completion percentage (.651) in 2017 ... Has served on football coaching staffs at UWA, South Alabama and East Mississippi Community College.

Qualified for the College National Finals Rodeo after third straight Ozark Region Championship … Finishing with a team score of 855 points, the Tigers scored 460 points in the short go round to soar from third to first to secure the program's second consecutive national championship … Taycie Matthews became a national champion in barrel racing for a second straight season with a 55.32 score over her four runs to pace UWA with 380 points … Taycie's horse, Poprocks, was named the National Horse of the Year … Lauren Booty was a reserve national champion in the breakaway roping, posting a 10.4 average over four runs to score 235 points.

Lauren Booty (All-Around; Breakaway Roping and Goat Tying)
Joanna Hammett (Goat Tying)
Ashley Henderson (Breakaway Roping)
Jaylie Matthews (Barrel Racing)
Taycie Matthews (Barrel Racing)

Daniel Poole, Head Coach
Lucas Brown, Ryder Ladner, Assistant Coaches