Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB. Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that the University of Kentucky will be inducting six new members to their Athletic Hall of Fame.

They will be officially inducted during the weekend of September 20-21.

The Class of 2024 is:

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Women’s Track and Field, 2016-18.  Camacho-Quinn was one of the most accomplished hurdlers in Wildcat history, a twelve-time First Team All-American, three-time NCAA Champion, and six-time SEC Champion.  She would later represent Puerto Rico and won two Olympic Medals in the 100-meter hurdles: Gold in Tokyo 2020 and Bronze in Paris 2024. 

John Cropp, Administrator, 1992-2013, Assistant Football Coach 1991.  Cropp worked for the University for 22 years, serving in multiple capacities.

Henrk Larsen, Rifle, 2018.  Larsen attended Kentucky only for one season, but as a freshman, he won the NCAA Air Rifle Individual National Championship and led the Wildcats to a National Championship.  Winning all but one competition he was in, Larsen was named the NCAA Shooter of the Year and Freshman of the Year.  He would turn pro after and represent Norway at the Tokyo Olympics.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Women’s Track and Field 2018.  McLaughlin-Levrone competed one season for Kentucky where she won the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championship and set a new college record in doing it.  She was a three-time SEC Champion and later won Gold in the 400-meter hurdles and 4x400 relay at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics.

Jodie Meeks, Men’s Basketball, 2007-09.  Meeks was a consensus Second Team All-American in 2009 and a First Team All-SEC Selection that season.  He still holds the single-game record in Points with 54.  He later played for ten years in the NBA for Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Lakers, Detroit, Orlando, Washington, and Toronto, the last of which saw him win an NBA Championship.

Corey Peters, Football, 2006-09.  A Defensive Tackle, Peters was a First Team All-SEC Selection as a senior and was part of two Music City Bowl wins and a Liberty Bowl win.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the impending members of the University of Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame.

Only Mike Kenn played more Games (251) than Jeff Van Note (246) did with the Atlanta Falcons, and for nine years, they would play on the Offensive Line together.  Van Note played at Center after being drafted in the 11^th Round of the 1969 Draft, and over his 18-year career (all with Atlanta), he would only miss four games due to injury.  

From the University of Kentucky, Bob Talamini would play his entire nine-year professional career in the American Football League.  The first eight of those campaigns were with the Houston Oilers, where the Left Guard was a six-time AFL All-Star (1962-67) who played his way into three First Team All-Pros.  The Oilers were one of the powers of the league, and Talamini was a member of the first two AFL Titles (1960 & 1961), and after his run with Houston, he played one final year with the New York Jets.  

Bob Gain was drafted 5^th Overall in 1951 by the Green Bay Packers, but that year he elected to play in Canada with the Ottawa Rough Riders instead.