FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.  Methodist University Vice President and Director of Athletics Dave Eavenson is pleased to announce the new inductees into the Monarch Hall of Fame. The Class of 2020 is comprised of Francie Barragan, Susan Martin '10, Jerry Hogge and Kristy Zeiler '11, '13M.

Barragan was the women's tennis coach from 2006 through 2015. She posted a career mark of 201-39, capturing eight USA South Athletic Conference regular-season titles and seven conference-tournament crowns, advancing into the NCAA Division III tournament following each of those league-tournament championships.

Her conference peers voted Barragan the USA South women's tennis coach of the year eight times including seven years in a row, beginning with the 2006 season's award.

Student-athletes from her squads earned three conference players of the year and one conference rookie of the year award, and 20 of her players were voted first-team All-USA South.

 

Hogge was not only instrumental in setting the course for Methodist's unequaled national success in women's golf (25 national titles), but also in the development of the institution's Professional Golf Management (PGM) program.

Monarch team's under Hogge's direction captured NGCA (combined D-II and -III) national titles in 1988 and 1989 and finished as the national runner-up in 1990. His squads were so successful that the teams from 1986 through 1989 were inducted as one group into the Methodist Athletics Hall of Fame. They accumulated 11 All-American honors over that three-year span, with Hall of Fame member Kristina Kavanagh winning the national individual medalist honor in 1988 and teammate Holly Anderson earning an Academic All-America honor that same season.

During Hogge's time leading the program, four of his golfers would go on to be inducted into the MU Athletics Hall of Fame.

Enticed to Methodist by the prospect of heading its PGM program, Hogge served as its Director and spearheaded the construction of its own building and on-campus golf course, and to national accreditation in 1999. A myriad of his PGM graduates have gained professional golf positions across the country, and his dedication to golf within the state earned Hogged induction into the Carolinas PGA Hall of Fame in 2019.

Martin claimed a pair of NCAA D-III women's golf championship individual titles (2008, 2009) while helping the Monarchs win four national team titles (2007-2010).

A second-team All-American and the NGCA D-III Freshman of the Year in 2007, Martin went on to earn first-team All-American selections over her next three seasons and was tabbed the NGCA D-III player of the year in 2010.

Within the Methodist record books, Martin ranks third all-time with six rounds of par or better in her career; her personal low round of 69 ties for fifth lowest; Martin's 4 career wins tie for fifth most; her career scoring average (vs. par) of 78.72 is eighth-lowest; and she is tied for second all-time with 98 career rounds played.

In 2010 Martin was voted the Methodist Senior Female Student-Athlete of the Year, and she is a three-time winner of MU's Mason Sykes Cup (2008-10).

 

Zeiler was a multi-sport athlete at Methodist, participating in the cross country and the track and field programs.

Initially her success came on the trails of cross country where she earned USA South runner of the year and first-team all-conference honors in 2009 and 2010, after earning a third-team honor in 2008.

She wrote herself into the Methodist record book, however, on the indoor and outdoor track ovals. She set in 2010 -- and still holds -- indoor records in the 800-meter, 3,000m, Mile, 5,000m and 10,000m runs, and also maintains the record in the 1,000m that she set in 2011. Her outdoor season in 2011 added Methodist records that still stand in the 5,000m and 10,000m.

The Class of 2020 pushes the individual count in the MU Hall of Fame past the century mark -- 101 inductees. Details of the ceremony for the new inductees will be released in the near future.