Former Arkansas offensive lineman Shawn Andrews among 10 Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame inductees
An All-American offensive lineman at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, one of the state’s all-time winningest high school basketball coaches and a two-time Olympic pole vaulter will be among the 10 inductees in the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame’s class of 2018. The induction banquet will be held in April. The 2018 class will consist of six inductees from the regular category and four from the senior category. Honorees will include former Arkansas offensive lineman Shawn Andrews, Guy-Perkins High School ba s ke t ba l l Coach John Hutchcraft, pole vaulter Jeff Hartwig, former Razorbacks football players Jerry Eckwood and Kevin Scanlon, are former Arkansas State University football player Jerry Muckensturm. The senior category inductees include former Arkansas athletic trainer Dean Weber, former Razorbacks football player Brison Manor, former high school basketball coach Oliver Elders and former college volleyball and tennis coach Bettye Wallace. Andrews was a Parade All-American offensive lineman at Camden Fairview High School. He made the NCAA All-American team in 2002 and 2003 at Arkansas and was a finalist for the Lombardi and Outland trophies in 2003. Andrews, a first-team All-SEC lineman in 2002 and 2003, played for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2004-2009 and the New York Giants in 2010, and was a Pro Bowler in 2006 and 2007. Hutchcraft, a former University of Central Arkansas basketball standout, has coached boys and girls basketball at Guy-Perkins, as well as girls slow-pitch softball. He is 1,967-567 in his coaching career at the Faulkner County school and has won 10 state championships (five boys titles — 1997, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2017; five girls titles — 1984, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005). Hartwig, who attended Arkansas State in 1986-1990, became the first American to ever jump 6 meters (19 feet, 8 inches) in the pole vault in 1998. He competed in the 1996 and the 2008 Summer Olympics. Hartwig is a four-time U.S. national outdoor champion, a two-time U.S. national indoor champion and trained under Arkansas Sports Hall of Famer Earl Bell. Eckwood played for the Razorbacks in 1975-1978 and was a three-year letterman in 1975, 1976 and 1978. He was a first-team All-Southwest Conference running back in 1975, rushing for 792 yards on 104 carries. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Eckwood in the third round of the 1979 NFL Draft. Eckwood played three season with the Bucs (1979-1981). Scanlon was an All-Southwest Conference quarterback for Arkansas in 1979, accounting for 16 touchdowns (9 passing, 7 rushing) and led the league in total offense (1,460 yards). He guided the Razorbacks to a 10-2 record and a Sugar Bowl appearance in 1979. Muckensturm was a fouryear starter at ASU. He was the Southland Conference player of the year in 1975. After his career with the then-Indians, Muckensturm played eight years with the Chicago Bears. Weber spent 35 years as the head trainer for the Arkansas athletic program (1973-2014). He is a 1998 inductee into the Arkansas Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame. Weber participated in 26 bowl games as an athletic trainer, including every Razorbacks bowl game from the 1976 Cotton Bowl to the 2008 Cotton Bowl. Manor played two years for the Razorbacks (1973-1974). He was a defensive tackle on the 1974 Razorbacks team that defeated Southern California. Manor went on to play eight years in the NFL with the Denver Broncos (1977-1983) and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1984), and played in the Broncos’ first Super Bowl in January 1978. Elders, a native of DeWitt, was the head basketball coach at Little Rock Hall and Horace Mann high schools. He went 656-305 during his career. At Hall, Elders led the Warriors to four consecutive state championships and coached future Razorback and NBA All-Star Sidney Moncrief. Wallace coached volleyball and tennis at Henderson State from 1963 to 1988. In 1980, Wallace became the first women’s athletic director for Henderson State.