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Five new members to join Athletics Hall of Fame

Five new members will be inducted into Liberty University’s Athletics Hall of Fame during a Sept. 14 ceremony, the night before the Flames Football matchup against Norfolk State.

Read about each honoree below. Visit the Liberty Athletics website for the complete story and to view a list of all 52 Hall of Fame members.

Peter Aluma, Men’s Basketball

Peter Aluma, a center from Nigeria, helped the Flames capture their first Big South Conference (BSC) title and automatic NCAA Tournament bid during his freshman season in 1994. He finished his career with 1,715 points and still holds the program record for career blocked shots (366) and free throws attempted (677). He went on to play professionally for the Sacramento Kings (1998-99) and in Venezuela. Aluma was a member of the Nigerian national team in 1998 and the Harlem Globetrotters in 2001.

 

Rashad Jennings, Football

Rashad Jennings, from nearby Forest, Va., rushed for 3,633 yards and set program records for career rushing touchdowns (42), 100-yard games (22) and points scored (278) for the Flames from 2006-08 before going onto a seven-year NFL career, rushing for 3,772 yards and 23 touchdowns for the Jacksonville Jaguars (2009-12), the Oakland Raiders (2013), and the New York Giants (2014-16), before announcing his retirement last year. He also has gained fame for winning ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” last May and serving as the youngest keynote speaker at Liberty’s Commencement in May 2016.

 

Frank Landrey, Men’s Golf Coach

After earning his master’s degree from Liberty in 1991, Frank Landrey helped set a course to make the Flames’ men’s golf team a perennial top-50 program during his 12 seasons as head coach from 1992-2004. He led the team to its first NCAA Division I team tournament victory in 1994 and an at-large bid to the NCAA Division I East Regional in 2003.

 

 

Danielle (McNaney) Detmer, Women’s Track & Field

Detmer, from Gardner, Kan., who competed from 2002-05, is the most decorated multi-event female athlete in track & field program history. The 13-time Big South champion led the Lady Flames to three BSC Indoor Championships (2002, 2003 and 2005) and two indoor titles (2002 and 2003). She is the only three-time ECAC champion in program history, finishing as the pentathlon champion in 2004 and 2005 and the heptathlon champion in 2005.

 

Warren Stewart, Wrestling

Stewart spent two years in the U.S. Marine Corps before winning the only NCAA championship in program history — at the Division II level in 1988 — before becoming a three-time NCAA Division I national qualifier. He went on to serve as an assistant coach for the Flames for the 1990-91 season before serving with his wife, Julie, for nearly two decades with Campus Crusade for Christ. He still lives in Lynchburg and currently serves as head coach at Brookville High School, where four of his sons have wrestled.

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