GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Guilford College Athletics Department has selected the Athletics Hall of Fame class of 2024, featuring a quartet of former student-athletes, women's lacrosse's E'leyna Garcia '14, women's basketball's Gabby Oglesby '14, men's basketball's Tyler Sanborn '10, and baseball's John Macon Smith '14, in addition to former women's basketball head coach, Stephanie Flamini, and Dr. Robert Wainer, as a service inductee.

"Our reinstituted Athletic Hall of Fame continues to honor those that have led Guilford Athletics to greatness over the years. This class consists of a highly accomplished group of alumni student-athletes, a former coach and a long-time contributor to Quaker Athletics," added Bill Foti, Director of Athletics. "Our Guilford Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony is open to the public and has become a very popular event for friends of Guilford Athletics and Alumni to enjoy. I would encourage the public to attend as we continue to celebrate the rich history of Guilford Athletics."

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The Class of 2024
E'leyna Garcia '14 (Women's Lacrosse): The most dominant offensive threat in the history of the Guilford College women's lacrosse program, E'leyna Garcia '14 dominated the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) from the day she stepped on campus in 2010. A two-time All-American and Academic All-American, Garcia completed her collegiate career holding the Division-III Women's Lacrosse record of 70 consecutive games with at least one goal scored, a mark that stood at minimum through 2020. Still to this day, she remains the Quaker women's lacrosse program-record holder for career points, with 364, and career goals, with 287, both of which ranked within the top-20 in Division-III history as recently as 2020, while also ranking second in draw controls, with 232, and third in assists, with 77.

Garcia was an All-ODAC Honorable Mention at the end of a freshman season that saw her immediately etch her name in the record books with a 64-point season that remains a top-ten year in that category, that featured 45 goals and 19 assists, leading the team in each category.

As a sophomore, Garcia rose to become an All-ODAC First Team selection for the first time in her illustrious career, setting the then program single-season records for points and goals with 80 and 57 respectively while also adding 23 helpers. During that season, she extended her streak of consecutive games with a goal scored to a program-record 35-straight, a mark that she would double by the end of her collegiate career.

Garcia's top season would come as a junior in 2013 when she set the program records for single-season goals and points with an astronomical 99 goals, the most in Division-III women's lacrosse that season, and 114 points, although she'd be supplanted atop that list the following year. She scored ten goals in a game twice that season, against Greensboro on February 28^th and vs. Catawba on March 18^th, and she remains the only player to score double-digit goals in a single game in Quakers history. For her efforts, she was named Guilford's first, and to this date, only ODAC Women's Lacrosse Player of the Year, in addition to being named the first Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWCLA) All-Chesapeake Region and SynapseSports.com All-American in program history, making the First Team regionally, and Third Team nationally. Showing balance on-and-off the field, she was also named a Capitol One/COSIDA Second Team Academic All-American.

As a senior she completed her streak of 70-straight games with a goal to set the NCAA record, and scored 86 goals that season, still ranking third in the nation while adding 20 assists to accumulate 106 points. For her efforts, she received First Team All-ODAC honors for the third-straight year, First Team All-Chesapeake Region for the second-consecutive season, and became the program's first IWLCA All-American on the Third Team. Once again getting recognized for her efforts as both a student and an athlete, Garcia was named the Farm Bureau Insurance/ODAC Scholar-Athlete Award winner and a Capitol One/COSIDA First Team Academic All-American.

Gabby Oglesby '14 (Women's Basketball): The most common player to put on a Guilford College women's basketball jersey, appearing in a program-record 112 games, Gabby Oglesby remains the top interior defender in the history of Quakers women's basketball. Recruited and coached for all four years by fellow 2024 Hall of Fame inductee, Stephanie Flamini, Oglesby starred in all aspects from day one and as a result, she ranks sixth in program history in career points, with 1,400, third in career rebounds, with 907, and second in career double-doubles with 31. Oglesby made her name on the defensive end where she tops the program leaderboard in career blocks, with 231, nearly 100 more than the next-highest mark. Additionally, her four seasons in the cardinal and grey represent four of the top-five single seasons in program history for total blocks and she is the author of eight games with five-or-more blocks in program history, a mark that has only been reached 12 times total. A one-time Women's DIII News All-American and two-time D3Hoops.com All-Region selection, Oglesby is also one of just three Quakers to date to be an All-ODAC First Team selection three times, and was the 2011-12 ODAC Player of the Year.

Cracking the Quakers' starting-five about halfway through her freshman season, Oglesby put together a superb stretch run for the Guilford, posting six double-doubles in the final 14 games of the season in which she played, with the team surging to eight wins in that span to crack the ODAC Tournament field. She finished the season averaging 11.5 points, and 7.7 boards to lead the team, while sending back 59 shots, the third-most in a single season in program history. For her efforts, Oglesby was named an All-ODAC Honorable Mention.

Oglesby would not only rise to the All-ODAC First Team for the first time in her career as a sophomore, but she would net ODAC Player of the Year honors that season, becoming the third Quaker to do so at the time, and the first in over a decade for the women's basketball program. The accolade was well earned as the conference's top defender in addition to one of its' best offensive threats. On the less glamorous end, she set the program record for single-season blocks with 68. It also ended up as the best offensive season of Oglesby's four in Greensboro. She finished sixth in the ODAC scoring 14.7 points per game on a .514 field goal percentage, the league's best among those with at least 250 field goal attempts. In addition, the forward was the team's leading rebounder, averaging 7.8 per game. All told, Oglesby piloted Guilford to 22 wins, an ODAC Championship, and an NCAA Tournament berth, earning ODAC Tournament Most Outstanding Player honors in the process. In addition to her conference accolades, Oglesby was named to the D3hoops.com First Team All-South Region Team and was a Women's DIII News Fourth Team All-American.

Already standing as the program-record holder for career blocks before becoming an upperclassman, Oglesby piled up another 49 in 2012-13, the fifth-most in a season in program history. While her scoring dipped to 11.0 points per game, Oglesby posted her best season to that point as a rebounder and facilitator securing 8.0 caroms per contest and dishing 40 assists, equal to her total from her freshman and sophomore seasons combined. She posted nine double-doubles and cracked the 1,000-points club on February 16^th. This season was all about the team however, as GC rolled to a 24-5 record, falling just one win shy of their single-season high as a program, nabbing their second-straight ODAC title and NCAA Tournament berth. Individually, she netted her second-consecutive All-ODAC First Team nod.

Oglesby rounded out her collegiate career with another strong season, leading the Quakers in scoring, rebounding, and blocks once again on her way to her third-straight All-ODAC First Team selection. Her best rebounding season of her career, Oglesby corralled an average of 8.9 per game, third-most in the ODAC, while also scoring 12.9 points per contest. As a result, she posted ten double-doubles, the most in a season in her remarkably consistent career, bringing her four-year total to 31. She finished as the conference-leader in blocks for the second time, totaling 59, fourth-most in a season in program-history and became the first Quakers women's basketball player to become a two-time All-Region selection, earning D3hoops.com Second Team All-South recognition.

Tyler Sanborn '10 (Men's Basketball): On the short list of the best men's basketball players to put on a Quakers jersey in the program's storied history, Tyler Sanborn '10 enjoyed a four-year career in Greensboro, spending two of those seasons among the nation's best players. The 2009-10 Division-III National Player of the Year through a trio of publications, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), DII News, and Basketball Times, Sanborn also won South Region Player of the Year twice and the ODAC Kurt Axe Player of the Year award once, among other accolades. During his tenure in Greensboro, he pilled up 1,398 points, the 15^th-most all-time and 4^th-most in the NCAA-era, adding 1,133 career rebounds, the most in the Division-III era, and fourth-most in program history. This puts him in rarified air as one of just six Quakers all-time to crack the 1,000-points, 1,000-rebounds club, but he holds the distinction as the only Guilford player to do so in the last half-century. He holds a career scoring average of 11.8 points per game, eighth-best in the NCAA-era, doing so while possessing a career field goal percentage of .570, the program's second-best mark among qualifiers since going Division-III, and fourth-best overall. Sanborn also accumulated an even 200 career blocks, one of four Guilford players to reach that plateau. Finally, he stands as the program-leader for career double-doubles with 55 across his four seasons, eight more than the next-highest player.

As an underclassman, Sanborn was productive, albeit, unassuming member of the Quakers. He appeared in all 29 games as a freshman as a reserve, scoring 3.3 points and grabbing 3.3 rebounds across roughly ten minutes per contest for the National Tournament, and ultimately, Elite Eight-bound squad. Then, as a sophomore, he was elevated into the Guilford starting-five, playing in 24 games with 20 starts, virtually doubling his averages across the board, scoring 6.8 points and 7.0 rebounds in an average of about 20 minutes a game for a Quakers squad that won their first ODAC Championship in program history, and as a result once again made the dance.

Emerging from behind fellow Quaker great, Ben Strong '08, to become a full-time starter and focal point for the Guilford offense, Sanborn proved that iron sharpens iron, with all the practice reps against the former National Player of the Year leading to him becoming one of the best players in Division-III men's basketball himself. Pilling up 20 double-doubles across his 31 starts, Sanborn's numbers multiplied once more, pouring in 15.4 points per game, doing so with a field goal percentage of .536. He also dominated the interior, finishing the season securing 12.9 rebounds per game, the third-most in the nation, and sent back an average of 2.5 blocks per game, ranking 15^th in Division-III. Those statistics work out to a 399 rebound and 76 block total on the season and rank sixth and fourth in program-history respectively. In the end, his well-rounded game netted him an abundance of accolades, raking in D3Hoops.com Fourth Team All-American honors along with being the South Region Player of the Year from that publication. He was a First Team All-ODAC honoree and NABC Second Team All-South District selection as well. Sanborn saved some of his best basketball for when it mattered most, helping lead GC to the Division-III Final Four as the Most Outstanding Player of the John Carroll University Sectional of the NCAA Tournament.

Sanborn followed it up with arguably the best individual season the Guilford men's basketball program has seen since joining the NCAA. Sanborn set Division III-era program records for total points, with 655, and rebounds, with 465, while shooting an unfathomable .643 from the field, also the best in the NCAA-era, third-best all-time, and ninth-best among qualifiers in the NCAA that season. His 66 blocks also rank as the third-most in program history since moving to Division-III, and sixth-most overall. He recorded a program-record 30 double-doubles in 33 games, ranking within the nation's top-50 in points per game, with 19.8, blocks per game with 2.0, and rebounds per game, with 14.1, the third-most in the nation that year. This led to him sweeping National Player of the Year accolades, in addition to him being a consensus First Team All-American, First Team All-Region, and Regional Player of the Year selection. He also became Guilford's second ODAC Kurt Axe Player of the Year honoree, and to this day is one of just three Quakers to net the award. Most importantly, the team success continued and GC enjoyed their top season in program history. Sanborn made it four NCAA Tournament bids in as many years for his career, guiding the team to the National Title game with an All-NCAA Tournament-worthy performance scoring 21.8 points and grabbing a tournament-best 16.6 rebounds per game. Overall that 2009-10 men's basketball squad finished 30-3, pilling up the program's most wins in the NCAA-era, and second-most overall while owning the top single-season winning percentage in program history, at .909.

John Macon Smith '14 (Baseball): Only playing three years as a Quaker after transferring in from Division-I Western Carolina University, John Macon Smith '14 nevertheless made his mark on the Guilford College Baseball team, ranking well-within the program's best players despite the missed year. Macon Smith excelled both on the field and in the classroom during his time at Guilford, earning All-ODAC and All-Region recognition all three years, adding an American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Third Team All-American selection in 2014, while also being the only two-time winner of the baseball edition of the ODAC/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete award in the conference's history to date. For career totals, Macon Smith ranks well, standing fifth in program history with 23 home runs, sixth in RBIs with 124, seventh in both hits with 188, and runs scored with 125, and tied for 11^th in stolen bases with 33. His numbers look even better on a per-game basis, as he is the program leader in hits per game, with an astronomical 1.63 per contest while his 1.09 runs scored and 1.08 RBI per game sit second and fourth respectively. Additionally, he only trails 2023 Guilford Hall of Fame inductee Kyle Wooden '10 in career batting average, with a .417 rate, and slugging percentage, with a mark of .681.

At the end of a freshman season at WCU in which he received steady playing time, Macon Smith opted to transfer to Guilford and made an immediate impact, leading the team in virtually every major offensive category. As a plug-and-play middle-of-the-order bat initially at first base and later in the outfield, he matched the program-record for single-season home runs in year one, mashing 13 on the season, pacing the ODAC while accumulating just two fewer than the national leader in that category. He also ranked fifth in the nation with 123 total bases, the most in program history at the time, and slotted in eighth nationally in slugging with a .794 mark. He drove in 51 RBIs that season, to lead the ODAC and rank 22^nd in Division-III baseball, while scoring 45 times himself, 83^rd-most nationally, and the second-highest in the league. In addition, he also owned a top-100 mark in the country in batting average at an even .400. His .400/.478/.789 triple-slash is among the best the program has seen in any season and is 1.267 OPS is the fourth-best on record. Defensively, he set the program record with 373 putouts at first base. While he was stunningly a Second Team All-ODAC selection that year, he was a consensus All-Region honoree.

Rising to First Team All-ODAC status as a junior, and repeating as an All-Region selection, Macon Smith actually saw his numbers drop by a tick in his second season in Greensboro, although it does not make what he did any less impressive. He still slashed .392/.443/.554 but teams pitched around him more leading to just four home runs, though he still led the team with 58 hits, 33 RBI, and 36 runs. His batting average ranked 116^th nationally at .392. With teams focused on limiting his power, it gave Macon Smith more opportunities to take advantage of his outstanding athleticism more often. After going 7-7 on steals his first year, he nearly doubled that total in 2013 with 13, fifth-most in the ODAC. A stellar student, Macon Smith also earned Capitol One/COSIDA Academic All-District recognition and ODAC/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award honors.

Macon Smith combined the best of both seasons as a senior with his triple-slash rocketing up to a superb .459/.531/.689 mark for a 1.220 OPS. His .459 batting average that year is the third-best in program history leading the conference and ranking seventh nationally, and his .531 on-base also paced the league and ranked tenth in the nation. He clubbed six home runs, ranking 59^th nationally, and had four triples, to rank 73^rd, both contributing his 102 total bases and a .689 slugging that was third in the ODAC and 28^th in the nation. Racking up 68 hits and 22 walks, both of which led the team with the former being the sixth-most in a season in program history, he found himself in position to contribute to lots of runs. As a result, Macon Smith drove in 40 runs, scored 44 more, and averaged 1.16 runs scored per game, 34^th-most in the nation. Additionally, he matched his 2013 stolen base total with 13 on the season. Once again, Macon Smith was a First Team All-ODAC selection, All-Region honoree, returning to consensus status, and shone in the classroom with Capitol One/COSIDA Academic All-District and ODAC/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award recognition, becoming the first, and to this date, only, baseball player in conference history to receive the later accolade twice. In addition, the ABCA named him a Third Team All-American.

Stephanie Flamini (Coach, Women's Basketball): The winningest coach in the history of the Guilford College women's basketball program, former Head Coach Stephanie Flamini enjoyed a near two-decade run leading the Quakers to immense success, cracking the ODAC tournament field in 16 of 17 seasons, winning a pair of conference crowns, and making a quartet of NCAA Tournaments during her tenure. From 2003-2021, Flamini accumulated a 284-171 record as the Quakers bench boss by focusing on well-balanced rosters as the program had 12 winning seasons, including six with 20-or-more, among the 17 total seasons she coached at Guilford, despite just a single player earning the ODAC Player of the Year award during her tenure, that being fellow Hall of Fame class of 2024 inductee, Gabby Oglesby '14. She was twice recognized as the ODAC Coach of the Year, and was the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Region 5 Coach of the Year in 2016.

Inheriting a well-established Quakers program that had seen three-consecutive 20-plus win seasons before she took over, including two ODAC titles and NCAA Tournament berths, Flamini maintained that success in her first season in 2003-04 with a 17-9 campaign that saw the cardinal and grey advance to the ODAC Semifinals. Guilford would qualify for the ODAC Tournament in four of the following five years, while under the surface, she was laying the groundwork for an emergent program and it paid off as 2009-10 proved to be a turning point. Guilford would not finish with a sub-.500 record again under her guidance as that team finished 14-12, 11-9 in league play, then improving to 15-12 and making the ODAC Semifinals in 2010-11.

The final nine years of Flamini's run coaching GC is the best such stretch in program history. In 2011-12, she led the Quakers to their first ODAC tournament title in a decade with the team going 22-7 including 16-4 in conference play, cracking the NCAA Tournament field for the first time since 2001-02. The team raised the bar the following year with the second-highest single-season win total in program-history going 24-5, 14-2 in league play and making it back-to-back conference tournament crowns and another national tournament appearance. A 21-win 2013-14 with their third-straight ODAC title game bid, preluded a 17-10 2014-15 campaign.

Surging once more in 2015-16 Flamini was recognized by her peers for putting together her top coaching season of her career, netting both ODAC and WBCA Region 5 Coach of the Year recognition. Guilford finished 22-6 overall that year, and while they fell in the conference title game, they made the NCAA Tournament and Flamini picked up her first win in the big dance for the Quakers, 61-57 over the University of Mount Union. Matching the program's second-best single season win total with a 24-4 mark in 2016-17, the Quakers earned a share of the ODAC regular season crown for the first time, but reclaimed the mountaintop as the tournament champions over Lynchburg.

The Quakers finished 17-7 in 2017-18 before Flamini claimed her first, and ultimately only outright regular season title in 2018-19, the program's first since 2001-02, she won her second ODAC Coach of the Year honor that year for her efforts. That season they finished 16-2 in ODAC play, their best mark under Flamini, while overall they cracked the 20-win threshold for the sixth time in eight seasons. In what was ultimately her final season guiding Guilford, Flamini led GC to a 17-10 record with the team once more advancing the league title game for the sixth time in nine years.

Over her 18 years, Guilford saw 15 different players make an All-ODAC team accumulating 29 selections among them. Included in that group are seven players who were named to the First Team, totaling ten selections among them. However, a credit to her coaching and team-building acumen, they only featured one ODAC Player of the Year and two Rookie/Freshman of the Year.

Dr. Robert Wainer (Service): Serving Guilford College and its student-athletes for over 20 years, Dr. Robert Wainer has dedicated innumerable hours to the health, and wellness of countless athletes as the official team physician for Quakers Athletics through his retirement last fall.

Covering all football contests in-person, and completing all surgeries during his more than two-decade span in the role of team physician, Wainer had played an integral role in helping student-athletes return to action or maintain health and availability to play.  

While he has retired from his services, he continues to play an integral role in the partnership between Murphy-Wainer Orthopedics and Guilford College.

About the Guilford Athletics Hall of Fame
Established in 1970, the Guilford College Athletic Hall of Fame celebrates the significant and impressive contributions of each of its members. These honorees are the individuals and the teams who, through their athletic talent and dedication to sport, have brought prominence to Guilford athletics and competition at the conference, regional, and national levels. It is due in large part to their extraordinary accomplishments that Guilford College's reputation in the world of sport continues to grow and gain respect.

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