For the 23rd time, the Hillsdale College Athletic Hall of Fame will welcome in a class of highly accomplished and worthy former student-athletes for induction in March.
The 2022 class of inductees spans three separate eras of Hillsdale College athletics and includes a national champion, a group of teams that broke multiple school records, and an elite player in a golden era of Hillsdale College football.
The 23rd Annual Hall of Fame Ceremony is scheduled for March 26, 2022 at the Searle Center on the Hillsdale College campus. The event set to begin at 5 p.m. with a cocktail hour, with dinner and the ceremony to follow.
Bob Mallendick '66
One of Hillsdale's most accomplished offensive linemen from a decade that produced many notable ones, including current Hall of Famer Howard Mudd. Bob took over as a starting tackle for the Chargers as a true freshman in 1962 and never left the field after that. He is one of just four players in Charger history to be named the team's Offensive Lineman of the Year three times (1963-65) and also was named to the NAIA All-State team twice (1964-65). His talent was recognized by the New York Jets, who drafted him in 1965, and he made it to the final cuts with the Jets in camp in the summer of 1966. After graduating with a B.A. in economics, he entered the petroleum industry, eventually becoming CEO and President of Seaway Fuels, a major trucking industry supplier.
Jason Stomps '10
Hillsdale's first-ever national champion at the NCAA Division II level, Stomps came to Hillsdale from Macomb Lutheran North as a unrecruited freshman who had barely competed in track and field in high school and whose focus was on academics. But talked into trying out for the track and field team by a thrower who recognized his potential, Stomps quickly developed into one of the best hammer throw competitors in the country, earning four All-American honors, a national runner-up finish in the outdoor hammer throw, and, on March 12, 2010, a Division II national title in the indoor weight throw with a winning mark of 21.55 meters. Over a decade later, Stomps still holds the Hillsdale program records in both the weight throw and hammer throw.
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 Softball Teams
A core group of 31 players and three coaches helped lead Hillsdale College athletics into the NCAA Division II era and authored the most successful four-year run in Charger softball history. The four teams combined for a 144-45 overall record, including the only two 40-win seasons in program history, two GLIAC titles, four GLIAC tournament appearances, and, in 1991, the first NCAA Division II Tournament appearance and victory by a Hillsdale athletic team in school history. Led by the softball program's first-ever All-American, Renae Schaffner, Hillsdale set 14 individual and team single-season and career records that still stand today and produced three GLIAC Players of the Year and five Academic All-Americans.
For more information on the Hillsdale College Athletic Hall of Fame, please visit our Hall of Fame web page. If you have a worthy candidate you believe should be considered for the 24th class that will be inducted in 2023, you can complete and return this form to athletics@hillsdale.edu for the Hall of Fame committee's review.