Max Muncy and longtime men’s basketball analyst Pat Nunley highlight the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame 2023 class that includes eight former student-athletes from six different sports.
Joining Muncy (baseball) and Nunley (men’s basketball) in the latest class to be inducted will be J.D. Walton and Ken Quesenberry (football), Tiffany Townsend and Sandy Forsythe Massey (women’s track and field), Denes Lukacs (men’s tennis) and Stan Curry (men’s track and field).
Also recognized will be former tennis letter winner George Chandler as the latest addition to the “B” Association Wall of Honor.
The 2023 Hall of Fame banquet is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, in the Cashion Building Banquet Room on the Baylor University campus. Tickets are $50 per person, with table sponsorships also available at the green ($600) and gold ($800) levels and can be purchased by contacting the “B” Association at 254-710-3045 or by email at tammy_hardin@baylor.edu.
Organized in 1960, the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame recognizes and honors individuals whose participation and contributions have enriched and strengthened the university's athletics program. Student-athletes are required to wait 10 years after completing their eligibility before they can be nominated for the Hall of Fame.
Beginning with the inaugural 1960 class that included coach Floyd "Uncle Jim" Crow and baseball's Ted Lyons, 265 honorees have been elected or already enshrined in the Hall of Fame, while Chandler becomes the 32nd addition to the Wall of Honor. The Hall of Fame and Wall of Honor recipients also will be honored on the field at McLane Stadium during the Baylor-Houston football game on Saturday, Nov. 4.
A two-time Southwest Conference champion in the high jump, Curry broke a conference record that had stood for 12 years with his winning mark of 6-11 ½ at the 1968 outdoor meet. With that career-best mark, he is still 10th on Baylor’s all-time performers list, just behind 2022 Hall of Famer Gary Kafer (7-0).
Clearing 6-10 or better 20 times, including four of 6-11 or higher, Curry also won the Drake Relays high jump title in 1968 and Texas Relays in 1969. He won the U.S. Track & Field Federation Championship in 1968 and also competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials that year in Lake Tahoe.
With Baylor’s transition from AIAW to NCAA in 1982, legendary coach Clyde Hart signed Sandy Forsythe to the first women’s track and field scholarship. Proving more than worthy of that distinction, she set school records in the 1,500 (4:16.82) and 5,000 meters (16:15.50) and still holds the program record in the 3,000 (9:22.44).
Named Baylor’s Outstanding Female Athlete as a senior in 1986, Forsythe Massey was also the school’s first female student-athlete to qualify for the NCAA Championships, making it in the 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 that same year. Nearly 40 years later, she still ranks in the top-10 all-time on the performers list in three events.
A three singles All-American (2008-10), Lukacs was a part of a combined six Big 12 championships and helped the Bears reach at least the NCAA quarterfinals every year. He ranks No. 2 in career singles wins (135) and single-season wins (47, 2007-08) and is one of seven players in the Baylor 200 club (combined singles and doubles wins).
The Hungarian native had top-15 season-ending rankings in 2008, 2009 and 2010, including a sophomore season in ’08 when he won 47 matches, reached the NCAA singles quarterfinals and was named the ITA Regional Player to Watch and Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player. In NCAA Tournament match play, he had an 8-0 record in singles.
Muncy earned Freshman All-America honors in 2010, when he hit .300 with a program freshman-record 11 home runs and 53 RBIs. A two-time first-team All-Big 12 pick (2011-12), he helped the Bears win the Big 12 regular-season championship and reach the NCAA Super Regionals in 2012, hitting .322 with seven homers and a career-best 56 RBIs.
The Keller, Texas, native finished his BU career with a .315 batting average, 27 homers, 40 doubles, six triples and 153 RBIs. Drafted in the fifth round by Oakland in 2012, Muncy is a two-time all-star and won the World Series in 2020 with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Nunley, a four-year basketball letterman (1977-81), played alongside two of the greatest players in program history in Vinnie Johnson and Terry Teagle. As a junior, he averaged a career-high 12.3 points and shot 88.7% from the free throw line, a mark that still ranks No. 2 all-time.
During his first year of law school at Baylor, he stepped directly into the broadcast role as a color analyst with legendary Hall of Famer Frank Fallon. A career highlighted by the Bears’ 2021 national championship win over Gonzaga that he called with “Voice of the Bears” John Morris, Nunley just finished his 41st season, the second-longest tenure of anyone currently calling Big 12 basketball.
Quesenberry, nicknamed “Quiz,” was a three-year starter at safety and an All-Southwest Conference selection for the “Miracle on the Brazos” champions in 1974. With 12 tackles and an interception, he also was named the Most Outstanding Defensive Player of the 1975 Cotton Bowl.
Selected to the All-Decade Team of the 1970s for both Baylor and the Cotton Bowl, “Quiz” also won the Baylor Golden Helmet Award as the team’s Most Valuable Defensive Back in 1973 and the Bobby Jones Memorial leadership award as a senior. Finishing out his collegiate career, he played in the 1975 Blue-Gray All-Star game.
With a program-record 17 All-America honors (12 individual, five relays), Townsend has nearly twice as many as any other Baylor female track and field student-athlete. As a senior in 2011, she finished third in the 200 at the NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor Championships and also had podium finishes in the indoor 60 meters (6th) and outdoor 100 meters (8th).
Named to Baylor’s 25-for-25 and Co-Track Athlete of the Decade (2010-19), Townsend still holds the school record in the indoor 60 meters (7.23) and multiple top-10 spots in the indoor 60 and 200 and outdoor 100, 200 and 4x100 relay.
Named a first-team All-American by the Associated Press as a senior in 2009, Walton was also a finalist for the Rimington Trophy that is given annually to the nation’s best collegiate center. After transferring from Arizona State, the Allen, Texas, native started 36-consecutive games at center for the Bears and paved the way for Robert Griffin III, Jay Finley and company to rush for 2,349 yards in 2008.
Graduating with a degree in speech communications in December 2009, Walton played in the 2010 Senior Bowl and also was invited to the East-West Shrine Game and NFL Combine. A third-round draft pick by Denver, he started 52 of the 56 games he played in six seasons with the Broncos, Washington Redskins, New York Giants and San Diego Chargers.
The “B” Association Wall of Honor annually recognizes Baylor letterwinners and graduates whose meritorious accomplishments in public or private life following graduation have brought positive public recognition, credit and honor to Baylor and the athletics department.
Chandler, who came to Baylor on a tennis scholarship and earned team MVP honors in 1960, graduated from Baylor Law School in 1962 and developed a reputation as one of the most sought-after trial lawyers and speakers in the country. He started his career with a personal-injury firm in Corpus Christi and opened his own law firm in 1971 in Lufkin.
More than 50 years later, Chandler, Mathis & Zivley specializes in plaintiffs’ personal injury and commercial trial law. “I was motivated to be a lawyer for the working man, where he’d have a voice against larger organizations with great resources,” Chandler said. The son of school teachers and grandson of sawmill workers, he wanted to “see people that we would be able to help and to change things and make life better for them.”
Recognized as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Texas by Thomson Reuters for 10 years running (2003-12), Chandler was named the Baylor Lawyer of the Year in 2009 and a Texas Legal Legend five years later from the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. In 2015, George and his wife, Martha (BA, ‘61) received the Legacy Award for extraordinary service and philanthropy to Baylor or to causes that fit its mission as a Christian university.
Joining Muncy (baseball) and Nunley (men’s basketball) in the latest class to be inducted will be J.D. Walton and Ken Quesenberry (football), Tiffany Townsend and Sandy Forsythe Massey (women’s track and field), Denes Lukacs (men’s tennis) and Stan Curry (men’s track and field).
Also recognized will be former tennis letter winner George Chandler as the latest addition to the “B” Association Wall of Honor.
The 2023 Hall of Fame banquet is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, in the Cashion Building Banquet Room on the Baylor University campus. Tickets are $50 per person, with table sponsorships also available at the green ($600) and gold ($800) levels and can be purchased by contacting the “B” Association at 254-710-3045 or by email at tammy_hardin@baylor.edu.
Organized in 1960, the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame recognizes and honors individuals whose participation and contributions have enriched and strengthened the university's athletics program. Student-athletes are required to wait 10 years after completing their eligibility before they can be nominated for the Hall of Fame.
Beginning with the inaugural 1960 class that included coach Floyd "Uncle Jim" Crow and baseball's Ted Lyons, 265 honorees have been elected or already enshrined in the Hall of Fame, while Chandler becomes the 32nd addition to the Wall of Honor. The Hall of Fame and Wall of Honor recipients also will be honored on the field at McLane Stadium during the Baylor-Houston football game on Saturday, Nov. 4.
A two-time Southwest Conference champion in the high jump, Curry broke a conference record that had stood for 12 years with his winning mark of 6-11 ½ at the 1968 outdoor meet. With that career-best mark, he is still 10th on Baylor’s all-time performers list, just behind 2022 Hall of Famer Gary Kafer (7-0).
Clearing 6-10 or better 20 times, including four of 6-11 or higher, Curry also won the Drake Relays high jump title in 1968 and Texas Relays in 1969. He won the U.S. Track & Field Federation Championship in 1968 and also competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials that year in Lake Tahoe.
With Baylor’s transition from AIAW to NCAA in 1982, legendary coach Clyde Hart signed Sandy Forsythe to the first women’s track and field scholarship. Proving more than worthy of that distinction, she set school records in the 1,500 (4:16.82) and 5,000 meters (16:15.50) and still holds the program record in the 3,000 (9:22.44).
Named Baylor’s Outstanding Female Athlete as a senior in 1986, Forsythe Massey was also the school’s first female student-athlete to qualify for the NCAA Championships, making it in the 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 that same year. Nearly 40 years later, she still ranks in the top-10 all-time on the performers list in three events.
A three singles All-American (2008-10), Lukacs was a part of a combined six Big 12 championships and helped the Bears reach at least the NCAA quarterfinals every year. He ranks No. 2 in career singles wins (135) and single-season wins (47, 2007-08) and is one of seven players in the Baylor 200 club (combined singles and doubles wins).
The Hungarian native had top-15 season-ending rankings in 2008, 2009 and 2010, including a sophomore season in ’08 when he won 47 matches, reached the NCAA singles quarterfinals and was named the ITA Regional Player to Watch and Big 12 Tournament Most Outstanding Player. In NCAA Tournament match play, he had an 8-0 record in singles.
Muncy earned Freshman All-America honors in 2010, when he hit .300 with a program freshman-record 11 home runs and 53 RBIs. A two-time first-team All-Big 12 pick (2011-12), he helped the Bears win the Big 12 regular-season championship and reach the NCAA Super Regionals in 2012, hitting .322 with seven homers and a career-best 56 RBIs.
The Keller, Texas, native finished his BU career with a .315 batting average, 27 homers, 40 doubles, six triples and 153 RBIs. Drafted in the fifth round by Oakland in 2012, Muncy is a two-time all-star and won the World Series in 2020 with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Nunley, a four-year basketball letterman (1977-81), played alongside two of the greatest players in program history in Vinnie Johnson and Terry Teagle. As a junior, he averaged a career-high 12.3 points and shot 88.7% from the free throw line, a mark that still ranks No. 2 all-time.
During his first year of law school at Baylor, he stepped directly into the broadcast role as a color analyst with legendary Hall of Famer Frank Fallon. A career highlighted by the Bears’ 2021 national championship win over Gonzaga that he called with “Voice of the Bears” John Morris, Nunley just finished his 41st season, the second-longest tenure of anyone currently calling Big 12 basketball.
Quesenberry, nicknamed “Quiz,” was a three-year starter at safety and an All-Southwest Conference selection for the “Miracle on the Brazos” champions in 1974. With 12 tackles and an interception, he also was named the Most Outstanding Defensive Player of the 1975 Cotton Bowl.
Selected to the All-Decade Team of the 1970s for both Baylor and the Cotton Bowl, “Quiz” also won the Baylor Golden Helmet Award as the team’s Most Valuable Defensive Back in 1973 and the Bobby Jones Memorial leadership award as a senior. Finishing out his collegiate career, he played in the 1975 Blue-Gray All-Star game.
With a program-record 17 All-America honors (12 individual, five relays), Townsend has nearly twice as many as any other Baylor female track and field student-athlete. As a senior in 2011, she finished third in the 200 at the NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor Championships and also had podium finishes in the indoor 60 meters (6th) and outdoor 100 meters (8th).
Named to Baylor’s 25-for-25 and Co-Track Athlete of the Decade (2010-19), Townsend still holds the school record in the indoor 60 meters (7.23) and multiple top-10 spots in the indoor 60 and 200 and outdoor 100, 200 and 4x100 relay.
Named a first-team All-American by the Associated Press as a senior in 2009, Walton was also a finalist for the Rimington Trophy that is given annually to the nation’s best collegiate center. After transferring from Arizona State, the Allen, Texas, native started 36-consecutive games at center for the Bears and paved the way for Robert Griffin III, Jay Finley and company to rush for 2,349 yards in 2008.
Graduating with a degree in speech communications in December 2009, Walton played in the 2010 Senior Bowl and also was invited to the East-West Shrine Game and NFL Combine. A third-round draft pick by Denver, he started 52 of the 56 games he played in six seasons with the Broncos, Washington Redskins, New York Giants and San Diego Chargers.
The “B” Association Wall of Honor annually recognizes Baylor letterwinners and graduates whose meritorious accomplishments in public or private life following graduation have brought positive public recognition, credit and honor to Baylor and the athletics department.
Chandler, who came to Baylor on a tennis scholarship and earned team MVP honors in 1960, graduated from Baylor Law School in 1962 and developed a reputation as one of the most sought-after trial lawyers and speakers in the country. He started his career with a personal-injury firm in Corpus Christi and opened his own law firm in 1971 in Lufkin.
More than 50 years later, Chandler, Mathis & Zivley specializes in plaintiffs’ personal injury and commercial trial law. “I was motivated to be a lawyer for the working man, where he’d have a voice against larger organizations with great resources,” Chandler said. The son of school teachers and grandson of sawmill workers, he wanted to “see people that we would be able to help and to change things and make life better for them.”
Recognized as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Texas by Thomson Reuters for 10 years running (2003-12), Chandler was named the Baylor Lawyer of the Year in 2009 and a Texas Legal Legend five years later from the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. In 2015, George and his wife, Martha (BA, ‘61) received the Legacy Award for extraordinary service and philanthropy to Baylor or to causes that fit its mission as a Christian university.
