The Greenville University athletic department will honor three individuals and one team with induction in its Athletic Hall of Fame at Greenville University's Alumni Honors Banquet on Saturday, October 21, at 6 p.m.  The Hall of Fame entries include Robert M. Aguilar (Football; Class of 2002), Bryson D. Taylor (Men's Track and Field, Football, and Men's Basketball; Class of 2007), JaMecia L. McCall (Women's Track and Field; Class of 2008), and the 1989 Men's Tennis Team.  In addition, Emily Reinneck Stearns (Women's Basketball; Class of 2023) will receive the Order of the Orange and Black.

Aguilar played football for four years under head coach Rob Harley.  After a successful first season as an offensive lineman led to honors on the Illini Badger Football Conference and St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference all-conference teams, he moved to the defensive side of the ball as a linebacker in 1999 and led the team in tackles for three seasons.  A first team all-conference linebacker for three seasons, he ranked second among the NCAA leaders with 16.5 tackles per game in 2000 and earned the NCCAA linebacker of the year award during his team's 2000 NCCAA Victory Bowl qualifying season.

McCall stood out in track and field as a sprinter and jumper for head coach Brian Patton.  She collected two NCAA All-American awards in the indoor long jump, taking fifth in 2007 and eighth in 2008.  She went to five different NCAA national championship meets and qualified for the national championships in eight events over four years.  Her most notable success came in the long jump with five entries in the national championships, and she also participated in the outdoor 4x100 meter relay and outdoor 200 meter dash.  She set school records in the indoor and outdoor 4x400 meter relay.

Taylor lettered in three sports on the Greenville campus.  He played football and basketball, but he dominated in the jumping events for the track and field program under Coach Brian Patton as a six-time NCAA All-American.  He earned one All-American honor in the high jump and five in the triple jump, placing as high as second in the indoor triple jump in 2006.  He departed Greenville as an eight-time NCCAA individual national champion and established program records in the indoor and outdoor triple jump and the high jump while his teams won three indoor and four outdoor NCCAA national championships.

The 1989 men’s tennis team qualified for the NAIA national championship in Kansas City for the first time.  Led by NAIA District 20 Coach of the Year Rick Stephens, the team won the NAIA district championship, collected an overall record of 32-6, and took two other tournaments, including Greenville’s John Strahl Invitational and the Illinois College-MacMurray Invitational.  The Panthers earned the second place finish at the Prairie College Conference championship by one point.  The team featured two NAIA District championship doubles teams and four singles winners.  The team had two conference champion doubles teams and individual conference champions in singles.

Stearns succeeded on the conference, regional, and national levels for head coach Roy Mulholland's women's basketball program.  Her career culminated in being named an NCCAA second team All-American in 2022-23.  For four years, Stearns collected SLIAC all-conference honors.  She was second team and newcomer of the year in 2019-20 and first team in 2021, 2021-22, and 2022-23.  She set the Greenville women's basketball record for three-pointers made in a career and finished in the top eight for assists, steals, three-pointers made in a season, free throws made, and total points.  Mulholland deems her the "best all-around player I have coached in 37 years."