Goucher Inducts 2015 Class to Athletics Hall of Fame

Goucher is honoring the sixth class of inductees into its Athletics Hall of Fame, which recognizes, honors, and perpetuates the memory of those individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the college’s athletics and intercollegiate athletics programs.

The induction ceremony will be held Friday, April 24, at 6 p.m. in Hyman Forum of the Sanford J. Ungar Athenaeum. The event will be part of Goucher’s Alumnae/i Weekend, which will be held April 25-27.

Goucher will honor the accomplishments of Kim Raley Graybill ’95, Percy Moore ’95, and former Equestrian Director Patte Zumbrun at the induction.

Percy Moore’s name is still associated with almost every scoring record of Goucher’s men’s soccer program until he graduated in 1995.

He demonstrated right from the start what an offensive force he was going to be by scoring at least one time in 10 of the 17 games the Gophers played in 1991, his freshman season. Moore finished with a team-high total of 16 goals in 1991—a record he equaled the following year.

As a junior forward in 1993, Moore supplied the team with 12 goals, including the two that were needed to earn a 2-1 victory over Catholic University in the quarterfinals of the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) postseason tournament.

Moore is the program’s all-time leader in goals (54) and points (133) and runner-up in assists (25). He was also the first and, so far, the only male soccer player from Goucher to earn first-team All-CAC honors in each of his four years of eligibility. He also was the school’s only representative on the CAC’s Silver Anniversary Team, essentially a compilation of the conference’s top players during its first 25 years of intercollegiate competition.

Moore, who serves on Goucher’s Board of Trustees, is the first men’s soccer player to be inducted into the college’s Athletics Hall of Fame.

A product of Towson High School, Kim Raley Graybill was a highly recruited swimmer who first landed at the University of South Carolina before transferring to Goucher in 1991. At the Capital Athletic Conference Championships that year, she took first place in both the 200-yard backstroke and the 200-yard individual medley, and she was runner-up in the 100-yard breaststroke.

While there can’t be many collegiate swimmers who relish the thought of competing in Buffalo, New York, in March, that’s where Graybill became the first female athlete ever from Goucher to compete at an NCAA Division III championship event in 1992.

It was also where she became Goucher College’s first swimmer to earn All-America honors. Graybill’s top performance at the NCAA Division III meet came in the 200-yard breaststroke, for which she took eighth place.

Patte Zumbrun inherited, as she once put it, “one of Goucher’s treasured legacies” when she was appointed director and head coach of the college’s equestrian program in 1987. She spent the next quarter of a century developing one of the top riding programs in the mid-Atlantic region and turning Goucher into one of the nation’s premier collegiate equestrian locations.

Under her guidance, the Gophers captured six Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Zone IV Region I titles during a span of 11 years. They also were crowned Zone IV champions for the first time in 2011-12, which allowed them to advance to the IHSA National Horse Show for the Collegiate Cup Hunter Seat team competition.

Zumbrun’s induction into the Goucher College Athletics Hall of Fame comes less than one month after she was presented with the prestigious IHSA Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a two-time recipient of the Professional Service Award from the United State Hunter Jumper Association/American National Riding Commission.

Zumburn officially retired from Goucher at the conclusion of the 2012-13 academic year after 35 years of dedicated service to the college.

A permanent display of the Hall of Fame inductees is located in the lobby of Goucher’s Decker Sports & Recreation Center.

To be inducted into the Goucher College Athletics Hall of Fame, an individual must have participated in at least two full seasons of intercollegiate competition, been in good academic standing, graduated at least 10 years prior to the nomination date, and been a “truly distinguished performer in his/her sport.” Coaches, trainers, managers, administrators, and others who have made outstanding contributions or offered extraordinary service to athletics at Goucher are also eligible.

Nominations for the Goucher College Athletics Hall of Fame can be made by using the form found here http://athletics.goucher.edu/information/nom_form2.pdf. Nominations are due by June 1. For more information about Goucher’s Hall of Fame or the nominations process, contact Geoffrey Miller at 410-337-6383 or gmiller@goucher.edu.

 

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