Daytona Beach Campus Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2017 Inducted

Six new members of the Daytona Beach Campus Athletics Hall of Fame were honored in a ceremony on Feb. 3, 2017, at the Henderson Welcome Center at the Daytona Beach Campus. The Eagles' fifth Hall of Fame Class - 2017 - included Jason Cruse (’00, DB), men's basketball; Abby Hall (’12, DB), volleyball; Elina Johansson (’11, DB), women's soccer; Phillip Reamy (’10, ’13, DB), baseball; Russell Snyder (’11, DB), men's cross country/track and field; and Sam Vazquez (’11, DB), men's cross country/track and field.
 
Among the 200 guests in attendance were Athletics Hall of Famers Jay Adams (HonDoc ’08); Kyle Mas ('01, DB), men's basketball; former university President Steve Sliwa; and members of the 2000 NAIA men's basketball national championship team, which was inducted in 2009.

Cruse competed for the Eagles from 1998-2000 and was a member of the 1999-2000 Embry-Riddle men's basketball team that was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame, as part of the inaugural class in 2009. He was a two-time All-Conference selection who averaged 17.1 points per game over his two-year career at Embry-Riddle. Cruse garnered several accolades, including Florida Sun Conference Newcomer of the Year in 1999 and Conference Player of the Year in 2000. He was named to the NAIA All-America second team in 1999 and was an NAIA First Team All-America selection in 2000, despite sitting out 13 games with a broken arm. He was named the 2000 NAIA National Tournament Most Valuable Player, after averaging 16.8 points per game in five national tournament games.
 
Hall is the first volleyball athlete to be inducted into the Daytona Beach Campus Athletics Hall of Fame. Embry-Riddle Volleyball's first All-American, she earned honorable mention All-America recognition as a sophomore, was a second team selection as a junior and was named first team All-American in her senior year. Hall was a four-time, first team All-Sun Conference selection and was tabbed as the league's Player of the Year three times. She led the Eagles to a 55-1 record in conference matches, four regular season conference titles, two conference tournament championships and the program's first two trips to the NAIA National Championship Final Site in 2010 and 2011. She currently stands as the Eagles' all-time leader in kills (1,715), points (1,993) and attack attempts (4,316), and ranks among the top 10 in attack percentage (.263), digs (1,087) and service aces (176) as of 2016-17. Additionally, she was flight commander and inspector general deputy as a member of Embry-Riddle Air Force ROTC Detachment.
 
Johansson was a four-year letter winner, who was the mainstay of the Eagles' offense from 2007-2010. One of the most decorated players in Embry-Riddle women's soccer history, she was named to the NAIA All-America second team in 2010 and 2011, and was a third-team selection in 2009. A four-time All-Conference honoree, Johansson was selected as the Sun Conference Newcomer of the Year in 2007 and the league's Player of the Year in 2009. At the time of her induction, she stands as the Eagles' career leader in points (170), points per game (2.50) and shots (334) and holds single-season records in points (66), assists (20) and points per game (3.30), as well as the single-game records for points (12), goals (5) and shots (19).
 
Reamy walked on to the Eagles' baseball team in 2007 and left as one of the most dominant closers in program history. In 2010, he struck out 33 and allowed just one run in 37 innings with a 5-0 record and 10 saves in 2010. His lone run allowed in 2010 still stands as a NAIA record, while his 0.24 ERA that season ranks second all-time as of 2016-17. Some of the honors he received during his four-year career with the Eagles include selection to the 2010 NAIA World Series All-Tournament team, NAIA All-America second team recognition (2010). He was also named to the All-Sun Conference team twice and was an NAIA Scholar-Athlete and Academic All-Conference honoree. At the time of his induction, he is the program's leader in career saves (25), and single-season ERA (0.24) and saves (15).
 
Snyder was a member of the men's cross country and track and field teams from 2007-2011. He garnered at least one academic or athletic honor in each of his four seasons with the Eagles, including being named an All-Conference performer in cross country four times after finishing among the top seven overall in four consecutive conference championship meets. He helped the Eagles to a program-best fifth-place finish at the 2009 NAIA Cross Country National Championship, garnering second team cross country All-America honors. A recipient of the Steve and Vicky Ridder Scholarship, he appeared on the Academic All-Conference and NAIA Scholar-Athlete rosters three times.
 
Vazquez brought home the Eagles' first national title in men's track and field in 2011 after winning the 1,000 m at the NAIA Indoor National Championships. Vazquez is also Embry-Riddle's first Olympian, as he competed in the 1,500 m  for Puerto Rico in the 2012 Olympics. He was a six-time All-American and seven-time All-Conference selection on the track and was the 2011 Sun Conference Track Athlete of the Year. Vazquez also earned All-Conference honors in each of his three seasons running cross country and was one of the league meet's top two finishers in each season, including a victory that afforded him Sun Conference Runner of the Year accolades in 2008. One of only three student-athletes in Embry-Riddle men's cross country history to earn All-America recognition, he holds four of Embry-Riddle's 20 fastest times ever and is the second-fastest runner in program history as of 2016-17.

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