ASHLAND — Tickets are now available for the 2025 Ashland University Hall of Fame Induction and Student-Athlete of the Year recognition program on Oct. 11 at 9:30 a.m. at the John C. Myers Convocation Center.
The induction/recognition will take place prior to the Eagles’ 101st Homecoming football game at 1 p.m. vs. Thomas More at Jack Miller Stadium/Martinelli Field.
Tickets are $30 each, and each ticket includes a meal. Children ages 5 and younger are admitted free.
Those wanting to pay for tickets online can do so at https://events.hometownticketing.com/boxoffice/goashlandeagles/L2VtYmVkL2V2ZW50LzUxMg==.
Ashland’s 49th Hall of Fame class includes Daiva Gerbec Mitchell (women’s basketball 2009-13), Erin Misheff Roberts (women’s golf 2008-12), Anthony Taylor (football 2011-14), Drew Windle (track and field/cross country 2011-15) and Evan Yates (men’s basketball 2009-13).
The 2024-25 Ashland University Student-Athletes of the Year have been voted on, and women’s soccer forward Dani Hicks and football wide receiver Tony Pannunzio are the 38th set of honorees.
Bob and Jan Archer, the 2025 Eagle Forever Award honorees, also will be recognized. They are the 29th and 30th recipients of the award all-time.
Pillars For Logan, Moon to be dedicated to start Homecoming weekend
Ashland University’s 2025 Homecoming weekend will begin in earnest with a dedication of the pillars of former Eagle national champion head track and field coach Jud Logan and Olympic gold medalist pole vaulter Katie Moon at 4 p.m. on Oct. 10.
The pillars are located at the Dwight Schar Athletic Complex.
A celebration of both Logan and Moon, speakers at the dedication will include Ashland President Jon Parrish Peede, Ashland Director of Athletics Al King, the Logan Family and Moon. Drew Windle, 2025 AU Hall of Famer, also will be in attendance prior to his induction at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday (Oct. 11).
Following the dedication will be a reception. The public is invited to attend both the dedication and reception.
The online RSVP link for the dedication is HERE.
Jud Logan
Logan served as the Eagles’ head track and field coach from 2005-22, and was Ashland’s throws coach for 13 years prior to that. As Ashland’s head coach, he guided the men’s program to three consecutive NCAA Division II championships – 2019 indoors and outdoors and 2021 indoors.
His teams earned 42 top-10 national placements, and his student-athletes won 59 individual national championships and collected 457 All-America honors.
He also earned 23 Coach of the Year awards, including:
- Three-time U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II men’s national indoor Coach of the Year.
- 2019 USTFCCCA men’s national outdoor Coach of the Year.
- 2008 USTFCCCA women’s national indoor Coach of the Year.
- Five-time USTFCCCA Division II men’s Great Lakes Region/Midwest Region indoor Coach of the Year.
- Four-time USTFCCCA Division II men’s Great Lakes Region/Midwest Region outdoor Coach of the Year.
- Six-time Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) men’s outdoor Coach of the Year.
- Three-time GLIAC men’s indoor Coach of the Year.
Logan passed away at age 62 on Jan. 3, 2022. He posthumously was inducted into the USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame in December of 2024.
Katie Moon
Moon is ranked second in the world in women’s pole vault, and will compete at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in September in Tokyo, Japan.
She is the 2020 Summer Olympics gold medalist and 2024 Summer Olympics silver medalist for Team USA in the women’s pole vault, and also has won three World Athletics outdoor championships, five USATF indoor titles and two USATF outdoor championships.
A 2024 inductee into the Ashland University Hall of Fame, Moon was a two-time NCAA Division II national champion and three-time D-II All-American in the pole vault, and continues to boast school women’s pole vault records both indoors (4.27 meters/14-feet-0) and outdoors (4.44 meters/14-feet-6¾).
Moon’s PR of 4.95 meters/16-feet-2¾ is fifth-best in world history.