TCU Athletics and the Block T Association welcomed eight new members into the TCU Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 1, honoring the 59th class in the hall’s history with an induction ceremony in the Grand Ballroom of the Brown-Lupton University Union.

The 2026 class includes Olympic sprinter Ronnie Baker ’16, two-time NCAA champion rifle shooter Sarah Beard ’13, record-setting wide receiver Josh Doctson ’15, women’s basketball all-time leading scorer Zahna Medley-Kindred ’16, offensive lineman Marshall Newhouse ’09 and two-time consensus All-American Jerry Hughes ’09. Dr. Bert Franks ’56, a two-sport letterwinner who later spent more than two decades as a team physician, was inducted as a special contributor. Minnie Armstrong ’80, the first African American student-athlete in TCU women’s basketball history and the program’s first 1,000-point scorer, was honored in the vintage category.

Hughes was elected to the hall in 2020 and deferred his induction until the end of his NFL career. The ceremony anchored TCU’s annual Hall of Fame weekend, which ran Oct. 1-3.

Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mike Buddie opened the program by connecting the inductees’ careers to the department’s work with current student-athletes.

“College athletics has changed quite a bit, and it continues to change with the new reality of the transfer portal, revenue sharing and name, image and likeness,” Buddie said. “But it doesn’t change the need to create memories for our young people, to put them in a position to earn a degree that will serve them for the rest of their lives and to give them every opportunity to become a champion like the inductees tonight.”

Buddie said the evening was also a celebration of the bond between former student-athletes and the university.

“The Block T Association exists purely to strengthen that connection and to ensure that once their playing days are over, their relationship with TCU continues,” he said.

Buddie then introduced Cedric James and Damian Myers, who lead the association. James, a former TCU letterwinner who also serves as a gift officer in the Frog Club and a faculty partner in the John V. Roach Honors College, was presiding over his first Hall of Fame ceremony as director of the Block T Association.

James asked the members of the Block T advisory board, executive board and Hall of Fame selection committee to stand, and he credited the group of several dozen letterwinners with taking on the work of choosing the class.

“This group represents different sports, different generations and different experiences here at TCU, but one thing I’ve learned that we all have in common is a love for our campus, our university and our letterwinners,” James said. “They gave their time and their thoughtful questions. We had difficult conversations. It wasn’t always joyful, but they took it very seriously.”

He also thanked his Frog Club colleagues and Myers for the planning behind the event, and he described the association’s mission in terms of its four pillars.

“Being a letterwinner does not end when your eligibility ends,” James said. “It’s a lifelong connection, and it’s a responsibility for all of us to keep that connection alive, to help our letterwinners stay connected, stay healthy, give back and create memories.”

Chauncey Franks, campus director of TCU Fellowship of Christian Athletes and a life and character coach for TCU student-athletes, offered the invocation before dinner and the induction presentations.

Newhouse, a three-time all-conference offensive lineman who went on to a lengthy NFL career after the 2010 draft, said the induction brought him back to a place he did not expect to land when he was growing up in Dallas.

“It was such a foundational place for me,” Newhouse said. “Some of my best friends and memories, and now friends who have become family, are from here. I’ve now gotten a second degree from here. It just means everything, and that’s not even the football stuff.”

Newhouse played alongside Hughes at TCU and said sharing the stage with the rest of the class put his own career in perspective.

“The other inductees were so prominent in TCU’s success,” Newhouse said. “They were such foundational pieces to what the sports program and then the university has become. You feel very special to be a part of that, and seeing everybody here brings it all together. It’s a family affair. There’s no other place like it.”

2026 TCU Athletics Hall of Fame Class

Special Contributor

Dr. Bert Franks ’56, Men’s Basketball and Golf, Athletic Training

Franks lettered in basketball and golf before returning to serve Horned Frog athletics as a team physician from 1982 to 2005. He was an early advocate for concussion awareness and return-to-play protocols that are now standard practice in sports medicine.

Vintage Category

Minnie Armstrong ’80, Women’s Basketball

Armstrong was the first African American student-athlete in TCU women’s basketball history. She lettered three seasons, became the program’s first 1,000-point scorer with 1,102 points and set TAIAW-era program records with 718 rebounds and 84 blocked shots. She is one of three players in program history to reach 1,000 points in three seasons.

General Category

Ronnie Baker ’16, Track and Field

Baker earned All-America honors 12 times and won two NCAA indoor titles in the 60 meters, an event in which he still holds the TCU record. As a senior he was named TCU’s Pop Boone Athlete of the Year, the Big 12 Outstanding Performer and Male Athlete of the Year and the USTFCCCA South Central Region Athlete of the Year. He represented the United States at the Tokyo Olympics, where he finished fifth in the 100 meters.

Sarah Beard ’13, Rifle

Beard was an eight-time All-American who helped TCU win NCAA team championships in 2010 and 2012 and the NCAA smallbore title in 2013. She went on to win multiple medals at the Pan American Games and the Shooting Championships of the Americas.

Josh Doctson ’15, Football

Doctson holds TCU records for career receiving yards (2,785) and single-season receiving yards (1,327). He was an All-American in 2015 and a first-round NFL draft pick.

Zahna Medley-Kindred ’16, Women’s Basketball

Medley-Kindred is TCU’s all-time leading scorer with 1,975 points and the only four-time All-Big 12 selection in program history. She led the Horned Frogs in scoring all four seasons and holds the program record for career 3-pointers.

Marshall Newhouse ’09, Football

Newhouse was a three-time all-conference selection who started nearly every game over his final three seasons on the offensive line. He was selected in the 2010 NFL draft and played for multiple teams during a lengthy professional career.

Jerry Hughes ’09, Football

Hughes is one of two players in TCU history to earn consensus first-team All-America honors twice. He led the nation with 15 sacks in 2008 and won the Ted Hendricks Award and the Lott IMPACT Trophy in 2009. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 2020, he was formally inducted this year following his NFL career.