ROLLA, Mo. – Two former basketball standouts, a solid two-sport athlete, a long-time coach with the program and a championship football team that is celebrating an anniversary season this year make up this year’s MSM-UMR Athletic Hall of Fame class that will be inducted this weekend.

The induction ceremony is scheduled to take place at the St. Pat’s Ballroom in Havener Center at 3 p.m. Saturday and this year’s induction class will also be honored at halftime of the Miners’ football game Saturday night against Saint Joseph’s College. The football game starts at 6:30 p.m. at Allgood-Bailey Stadium.

This year’s class of inductees includes:

JENNIFER (CORDES) JANSEN (Class of 1991): A standout for the UMR women’s basketball team, she finished her playing career as the school’s all-time leading scorer with 1,416 points and second in rebounds with 661. She earned first-team All-MIAA honors and first-team Academic All-America honors following her senior year when she led the Lady Miners in scoring with an average of 17.1 points per game. She earned second-team All-MIAA honors in both the 1987-88 and 1988-89 seasons. A two-sport student-athlete who also played softball, she set the UMR career record for field goals made with 562 in her four-year career.

DUANE HUDDLESTON (Class of 1989): Huddleston was one of the prolific long-range shooters in the nation in the first years that the three-point line became a part of college basketball. He earned third-team All-America honors following a senior year where he averaged 24.2 points per game. Huddleston scored 1,475 points in his career at UMR, the second-best mark in school history when he finished his career and made 51 percent of his three-point attempts in the two seasons in which the three-point shot was in effect. He set an NCAA Division II record by making 10 straight three-pointers in a game against Northeast Missouri State in 1988 in a season where he earned his second straight All-MIAA first team award.

CRAIG THOMAS (Class of 1984): An outstanding two-sport student-athlete at UMR who played on the Miner football and baseball teams. In football, he played defensive back and served as UMR’s placekicker; in his four seasons, he connected on 77 of 89 extra point attempts and 17 of 29 field goals. A member of the Miners’ undefeated team in 1980, he also intercepted 11 passes during his career as a two-year starter at the free safety position and earned honorable mention All-MIAA honors following the 1982 season. In baseball, Thomas was a three-time selection to the All-MIAA team, earning first-team laurels in 1983 and also named as the team’s most valuable player in baseball in 1982. He finished his UMR baseball career as a .308 hitter and in the top 10 for career doubles, home runs and runs batted in.

BURR VAN NOSTRAND (Coach): A long-time member of the Miner coaching staff, Van Nostrand headed the swimming program and also served as an assistant on the football staff for 21 seasons. He coached the interior line on the football staff and in addition to serving as the head swimming coach, also assisted the track team and ran the university’s intramural program. Van Nostrand also served for the country during World War II and was the first head coach of the Rolla High School football program in 1948 before joining the Miner coaching staff in 1953.

1956 FOOTBALL TEAM (Team Induction): The Miners’ 1956 football team won a share of the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship with a 4-1 conference record and 6-3 overall record. The team won its final three games that season to gain its share of the title and held six of its nine opponents to under 10 points. Only one team scored more than 20 points against MSM that season and that came in a Miner victory. The ‘56 Miners, which allowed their opponents an average of only 96.1 yards per game, boasted five all-conference performers with a balanced offensive attack.