Class of 1988 (Inducted April 23, 1988)
Robert Adrion '74 - Men's Basketball
Still Catholic's all-time leading scorer in men's basketball with 2,289 career points, Adrion earned All Mason-Dixon Conference honors and was honorable mention Associated Press Little All-American in 1973-74. Adrion became the all-time leading scorer as a junior, when he reached 1,798 points on Feb. 23, 1973. Adrion was a four-year member of the basketball team.
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Francis Murray '50 - Boxing, Equipment Manager
Murray was a four-year member of the boxing team, but has made his mark in a half-century with the University as a student, trainer, sports information director and equipment manager. Franny is beloved by generations of Catholic University athletes. He started as the equipment manager in 1950.Â
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Robert Flynn '57 - Baseball, Men's Basketball, Men's Track & Field, Men's Cross Country
Flynn lettered in four sports at Catholic: baseball, basketball, cross country and track.
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John Corbett '41 - Men's Track & Field
Corbett was unstoppable in the Mason-Dixon Conference in the mile and two-mile runs, winning the championships in 1939, 1940 and 1941. He joined the Marine Corps upon graduation and was killed in action in World War II. The track program gives a trophy in his honor. Corbett was a four-year member of the track team.
Sharon Hodges '81 - Women's Basketball
The first woman to be inducted into the CUA Hall of Fame, Sharon Hodges Repass is also the first woman to score 1000 points, accumulating 1349 career points from 1977 to 1981 on the women's basketball team. Repass, CUA’s all-time leading rebounder with 1227 career rebounds, also holds the all-time rebounding average at 13.5 per game. She was a four-year starter for then Division II CUA and was named a first team All-Tournament selection of the CUA Invitational for four consecutive years.
Repass joins three other family members in CUA’s Hall of Fame: great-grandfather Fred Rice (inducted 1982) was the first men’s basketball coach (1912-1930); grandfather Wilfred Howell (inducted 1978) was a football, track and boxing standout in the 1930s; and great uncle Fred Rice, Jr. (inducted 1996) was a standout on the basketball team in the 1940s.
Sharon’s daughter, Michele (class of 2008) is CUA’s first ever Capitol Athletic Conference Field Hockey Rookie of the Year, a distinction she won in the fall of 2004.
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Steven Varsa '68 - Men's Track & Field, Men's Soccer
Varsa was an All-American in soccer under Hall of Fame coach Hicabi Emekli and later went on to coach at Catholic. Varsa was also invited to try out for the 1968 U.S. Olympic team. He was a four-year member of the soccer and track team.Â
John Schroeder '42 - Football
