By: Doug Ireland/Sports Information Director
NATCHITOCHES -- The public is invited to attend Saturday morning at 9 in the Magale Recital Hall on the NSU campus as five of the finest competitors in Northwestern athletic history, including All-Americans Terrance Bean and John King along with NFL veteran Robert Moore, will be enshrined in the university's Graduate N Club Hall of Fame during Homecoming festivities at NSU.
King (football), Bean (track and field), and Moore (football) join record-setting two-sport star Tiffany Cronin Crawford, and sensational softball pitcher Nancy Percle Ensminger in the 2012 homecoming Hall of Fame induction class.
An 8:30 a.m. reception and the ceremonies are open to the public at no charge. The Graduate N Club Hall of Fame is the highest athletic honor Northwestern presents for athletic accomplishment, with induction ceremonies each year at homecoming. The Graduate N Club is the association of former athletic letterwinners at NSU.
King, a Springhill native, and Moore, a Shreveport-Captain Shreve product, were selected in 2007 when NSU celebrated its football centennial and unveiled a Top 100 Demon Football Players of the Century roster.
Bean was a three-time All-America high jumper from 1995-97, while Cronin set the school record and was a three-time Southland Conference track and field medalist as a triple jumper, and she is also arguably the best volleyball player in school history. Percle remains ranked among the greatest pitchers at NSU 20 years after she played, helping the Lady Demons win the 1991 Southland Conference championship.
A reception begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Hanchey Art Gallery outside the recital hall, near the NSU President's Office in the Fine Arts Center.