Football
by Jason Knavel, Associate AD for Strategic Communications
Spartanburg, S.C. – In celebration of its first 100 years of history, the Southern Conference has named 13 former Elon student-athletes to its 100th anniversary teams. Elon was a member of the Southern Conference from 2003 through 2014.
Southern Conference 100th Anniversary Teams
The league named teams in each of the sports it currently sponsors and that it has sponsored for at least 25 years.
Among the criteria that merited selection to the teams were the common benchmarks of:
– Member of the collegiate hall of fame for that sport
– Member of the SoCon Hall of Fame
– National player of the year
– All-America honors in two different academic years
– SoCon Male or Female Athlete of the Year
– Two-time SoCon Player of the Year
Other benchmarks varied by sport.
Elon had three members of the SoCon 100th anniversary football team in Terrell Hudgins, Aaron Mellette and Chad Nkang. Steven Kinney, Chris Thomas and Justin Wyatt were named to the men’s soccer team. From men’s tennis, Damon Gooch and Cameron Silverman were selected. Ali Ford (women’s basketball), Caitlin Beeler (women’s cross country), Samantha Widmer (women’s golf), Jordan Johnson (women’s tennis) and Megan Kirschling (women’s track and field) were also chosen.
Listed below are each of Elon’s representatives, along with the honors with which they were selected to the teams.
Caitlin Beeler, Women’s Cross Country
1st-team All-SoCon 2006, 2007, 2009
Ali Ford, Women’s Basketball
1st-team All-SoCon 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12
Damon Gooch, Men’s Tennis
1st-team All-SoCon 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Terrell Hudgins, Football
All-America 2007, 2008, 2009
1st-team All-SoCon 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Jordan Johnston, Women’s Tennis
1st-team All-SoCon 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Steven Kinney, Men’s Soccer
1st-team All-SoCon 2007, 2008, 2009
Megan Kirschling, Women’s Track & Field
OTK HJ record-holder
Aaron Mellette, Football
All-America 2010, 2011, 2012
1st-team All-SoCon 2010, 2011, 2012
Chad Nkang, Football
All-America 2005, 2006
SoCon Defensive Player of the Year 2005, 2006
1st-team All-SoCon 2004, 2005, 2006
Cameron Silverman, Men’s Tennis
SoCon Player of the Year 2013, 2014
1st-team All-SoCon 2012, 2013, 2014
Chris Thomas, Men’s Soccer
SoCon Player of the Year 2010, 2012
Samantha Widmer, Women’s Golf
1st-team All-SoCon 2006, 2007, 2008
Justin Wyatt, Men’s Soccer
1st-team All-SoCon 2007, 2008, 2009
— ELON —