LOUISVILLE – Previous University of Louisville running back again Michael Bush and University of Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart headline the inductees for the Kentucky Sports activities Hall of Fame.
The announcement was made Thursday at a press briefing at Liberty Corridor by the Louisville Sporting activities Commission, entrepreneurs and operators of the KSHOF.
Comprising the 45th KSHOF course are Bush, football star at Louisville Male Superior College, the University of Louisville and in the NFL in the early 2000s Barnhart, nationally renowned athletics director at the University of Kentucky (Uk) considering the fact that 2002 Sue Feamster, former British isles athletic administrator and trail blazer for girls’ and women’s participation in athletic competitors starting off in the late 1960s and Dallas Thornton, basketball star at Male, Kentucky Wesleyan and the Harlem Globetrotters in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
A assortment committee comprised of 17 athletics media experts from through the Commonwealth, alongside with the Bygone Era Collection Workforce, chose this year’s course. All votes by the range committee ended up independently tabulated by regional accounting business Dean Dorton, 1 of the premier accounting and advisory firms in Kentucky, with places of work in Louisville and Lexington.
The 2022 KSHOF class members and their family members will be honored on Aug. 22, 2022, at the Galt Dwelling Resort in downtown Louisville. For ticket info or sponsorship possibilities, speak to Julie Howell at [email protected] / (502) 587-6742.
The KSHOF is owned and operated by the Louisville Sports activities Commission, a Kentucky-dependent non-income whose mission is to entice, build, host and function sporting functions and functions that enrich the quality of existence of the Commonwealth. The KSHOF was established in 1963 to figure out athletes and sporting activities figures who are Kentucky natives or who participated in their respective activity or built a major impression in their sport in Kentucky.
“The KSHOF Course of 2022 acknowledges 4 excellent men and women who depict a wide spectrum of sports and occupations – folks who had a big impact on sporting activities in the Commonwealth and on the nationwide phase,” claimed Louisville Sports activities Fee President and CEO Karl F. Schmitt Jr. “Sue Feamster’s purpose championing girls’ and women’s sports is powerful and a fitting way for the KSHOF to celebrate the 50th anniversary yr of Title IX laws.
The range of Michael Bush and Dallas Thornton acknowledges the long background of superb athletes from Male Large Faculty, the College of Louisville and Kentucky Wesleyan. And the range of Mitch Barnhart celebrates the on-likely good results of Uk athletics beneath his tenure relationship again extra than two decades.”