A Trigg County resident and former Earlington High School basketball star is among the five great names in Western Kentucky University Athletics that will be inducted as the 31st class into the WKU Athletic Hall of Fame during ceremonies set for Homecoming weekend this fall.
The 2022 class includes Harry Todd (men’s basketball), Claire Donahue (women’s swimming), Chuck Eneix (men’s track & field), Bobby Rainey (football), and Dean Tiebout (football).
The inductees will also be honored in ceremonies on Jimmy Feix Field at halftime of the annual Homecoming football game against Conference USA foe North Texas at Houchens-Smith Stadium.
Harry Todd was the Hilltopper team captain in 1962 and an All-Ohio Valley Conference selection in both ’61 and ’62, Todd helped lead the Toppers to three OVC championships and two berths in the NCAA Tournament, in 1960 and 1962. He led his team in rebounding each of his three varsity seasons and is one of only six Hilltoppers on record to average a “double-double” in three-or-more seasons (12.8 ppg, 10.6 rpg as a sophomore; 11.2 ppg, 11.6 rpg as a junior; and 11.8 ppg, 12.5 rpg as a senior) along with WKU Athletic Hall of Famers Ralph Crosthwaite, Clem Haskins, Tom Marshall, Jim McDaniels and Art Spoelstra.
His 924 career rebounds still rank him eighth among all Hilltoppers here 60 years after he completed his playing career on The Hill. He remains one of just 10 Toppers on record to lead the team in rebounds three-or-more times. Kentucky’s “Mr. Basketball” as a high school senior at Earlington in 1958, Todd was elected to the KHSAA Hall of Fame in 1995. He resides in Cadiz.
The induction of the 2022 class will bring the number of former WKU athletes and coaches to earn berths in the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame to 166 since its founding in 1991.
(Info courtesy WKU Athletics)
