Nine Bruin standouts have been selected for induction into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2022. The members of the class are: Patrick Cantlay (men’s golf), Gerrit Cole (baseball), DeShaun Foster (football), Linda Robertson Hanley (women’s volleyball), Dawn Harper-Nelson (track & field), Kelly Inouye-Perez (softball coach), Ole Mikkelsen (men’s soccer), Dave Saunders (men’s volleyball) and Extraordinary Service honoree Ed Kezirian (football/administration). The induction ceremony will take place on campus on Oct. 7, and the class will be introduced at halftime of the Oct. 8 UCLA vs. Utah football game.
The Hall of Fame class includes two current UCLA coaches in Inouye-Perez and Foster, the reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year Cantlay, Olympic gold medalists Harper-Nelson and Saunders, four-time MLB All-Star Cole, UCLA soccer’s all-time leading scorer Mikkelsen, three-time All-American and 1996 Olympian Robertson Hanley and unbeaten football coach Kezirian. The class combined for 12 NCAA championships while at UCLA.
Following are biographies for the 2022 UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame members:
Patrick Cantlay, Men’s Golf (2010-12)
Cantlay had one of the greatest seasons in collegiate golf as a freshman in 2010-11, winning the Jack Nicklaus Award as the Division I Player of the Year by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA), the Fred Haskins Award as the most outstanding male collegiate golfer, and the Golfweek Player of the Year. He also became UCLA’s first and only winner of the Phil Mickelson Award as the GCAA Freshman of the Year and the Ben Hogan Award as the collegiate and amateur golfer of the year. Additionally, Cantlay was awarded the Pac-12 Golfer and Freshman of the Year. He won four tournament titles during his historic freshman season, the fourth-most in program history, and he led UCLA to five tournament wins, including victories at the NCAA Regional and during NCAA Stroke Play. Cantlay ranks first all-time in program history with a 70.80 career scoring average (65 rounds/4,602 strokes). Since leaving for the professional ranks, Cantlay has become one of the preeminent golfers on the PGA Tour, ranking as high as third in the official World Golf Rankings and winning 2021 PGA…
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