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Florida Coastal School of Law professor Nancy Hogshead-Makar will be inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Hall of Fame during ceremonies in Tampa June 30
Hogshead-Makar, who is this year’s honorary Hall of Fame inductee, swam just one season at Duke, where she captured four individual ACC championships and earned two All-America accolades. She set school records in all nine events that she swam for the Blue Devils, one of which still stands today, and she earned her degree in Political Science from Duke in 1986.
During the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she captured gold medals in the 100 freestyle, 400 freestyle relay and 400 medley relay and a silver medal in the 200 intermediate.
Hogshead-Makar is one of the country’s foremost experts as an attorney for gender equity within athletics. Prior to joining Florida Coastal, she spent four years with the firm of Holland & Knight. She served as President of the Women’s Sports Foundation from 1992 through 1994 and served as an advisor to President Clinton on the National Service Act. Hogshead-Makar, who became the first female inductee into Duke’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1994, has served on the boards of numerous companies and organizations and earned her law degree from Georgetown University in 1997.
The rest of the class of 2008 includes:
• Dr. Kenneth Caldwell (The Citadel, class of 1979), a gridiron standout who served in the United States Army Reserve for eight years, including a tour of duty in Operation Desert Storm, and has been Citadel’s team physician since 1989;
• Karen Jennings (University of Nebraska, class of 1993), the Wade Trophy recipient as a senior and the two-time Academic All-America of the Year for the Huskers;
• Rebecca Lobo (University of Connecticut, class of 1995), a consensus national Player of the Year selection who guided the Huskies to a perfect season as a senior before enjoying more success in the WNBA;
• Amy Privette Perko (Wake Forest University, class of 1987), the first female Academic All-America in school history and current Executive Director of the Knight Foundation Commission.
The five inductees will join 98 previous inductees since the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame held its first induction in 1988.
CoSIDA established the Hall of Fame to honor former college student-athletes who have excelled in their professions and made substantial contributions to their communities. To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, a candidate either had to be an Academic All-America team member who graduated at least 10 years ago, or fall into the honorary category, as was the case with Hogshead-Makar.
Honorary inductees are eligible candidates who competed prior to the establishment of the Academic All-America program in their sport.
“The class of 2008 again reflects the types of individuals who exemplify everything positive about the Academic All-America program and the Hall of Fame,” said Charles Bloom of the Southeastern Conference, the 2007-08 CoSIDA president. “CoSIDA, and its members, are once again extremely proud to be a part of this great program.”