GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Guilford College Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2025 features five former student-athletes, Lamar Boykin '86 (football), Lily Colley '14 (women's lacrosse), Cynthia Hayes Luther '14 (softball), Tom Schoendorf '85 (men's lacrosse), and Satiir Stevenson '15 (football), in addition to former men's basketball head coach Tom Palombo, the department announced on Wednesday morning.

"Our reinstituted Athletic Hall of Fame continues to honor those that have led Guilford Athletics to greatness over the years. This class consists of five highly accomplished alumni student-athletes from several different generations as well as a legendary former coach," noted 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."

The public is invited to attend the Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday, November 8, at 11:00 AM in the Dana Auditorium on campus.

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The Class of 2025
Lamar Boykin '86 (Football)
A day-one starter, Lamar Boykin '86 played defensive back and was a standout kick returner for some well-accomplished teams in the 1980's.

The Quakers held a record of .500 or better across his four seasons, during which he appeared in 29 games, finishing 22-15-2 overall. Among those seasons was a terrific 7-3 campaign in 1984 during which GC rose to as high as No. 8 in the NAIA National Rankings.

Boykin ranks within the program's top-ten in four categories: 11 career interceptions (tied for sixth-most all-time), a district-leading seven interceptions in 1982 (third-most in a single season), 23 career punt returns (tenth-most in program-history), and 210 career punt return yards, (tied for eighth-most). On punt returns, his 9.13 yards per return would rank as the fifth-best mark if it reached the 30-return threshold for the record books.

An immediate star, Boykin continued to ascend over the following seasons culminating in an All-District honor as a senior in 1985. That same year, he received Guilford's Nereus C. English Athletic Leadership Award.

Lily Colley '14 (Women's Lacrosse)
The best distributor the Guilford women's lacrosse team has ever featured, Lily Colley '14 made the most of her three seasons and 54 games as a part of the Quaker attack from 2012 through 2014.

An integral member of the only three double-digit win seasons in program history, including a program-best 15-2 record and undefeated ODAC regular-season campaign in 2013, the team went 38-16 and advanced to at minimum the ODAC Semifinals and earned the program's only ODAC Championship game berth with Colley.

Transferring from Clark University (Mass.) after playing basketball there as a  freshman, Colley made an instant impact with a 78-point first season in Greensboro, breaking the program record and finishing just behind teammate E'leyna Garcia '14. She ranked fifth in the ODAC in points with that remaining the sixth-highest scoring season in program history, along the way netting 48 goals, and a then program-record 30 assists. She quarterbacked a top-ten offense nationally and the ODAC's most high-powered attack as a junior and senior. As a junior, she ranked eighth nationally in points per game, with 6.53, ninth in total points, with 111, 18^th in total goals, with 72, and 28^th in total assists, with 39. In her senior season, Colley was the national leader in total points scored accumulating 133, still easily the most in Quaker program history, a mark that was the 12^th-highest in Division-III Women's Lacrosse history at the time, and just one shy of the ODAC record. Netting 73 goals that season, she ranked 11^th nationally with a mark that remains the third-best in program history, while her 60 assists remain by far the most and were the ninth-highest total in America. For her career, Colley remains the Quakers most prolific point-scorer on a per-game basis, averaging 5.96 points per game, and its top distributor, with 129 assists, while her 322 total points and 193 goals are both second. Additionally, her points, goals, and assists totals ranked in the top-ten in ODAC history.

Colley was a two-time Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Second Team All-Chesapeake Region pick, a three-time All-ODAC honoree, and one-of-eight Quakers to be named to the All-ODAC First Team multiple times, doing so twice.

Cynthia Hayes Luther '14 (Softball)
The most dominant offensive threat that not only Guilford softball, but the ODAC as a whole has ever featured, Cynthia Hayes Luther '14 played in 138 career games with 137 starts on Haworth Field from 2011 through 2014.

Over her four-year tenure, the Quakers went 91-72, bookending her career with ODAC Tournament berths including the first of the program's two ODAC Semifinals appearances, and a then-program-record 29 wins when Luther was a senior in 2014.

Hayes owns, or finished her career owning, virtually every major offensive record in the history of the softball program. After matching the then-program-record for single-season triples with four as a freshman, then breaking what was then the program record for HBP in a single season, with eight, as a sophomore, Luther's assault on the record books took off as a junior. Despite missing some time, she posted a monstrous .598 batting average with 30 runs and 24 RBI over just 28 games in 2013. Her batting average remains the best in not just Guilford, but ODAC history, and is the 15^th-best in a single season in Division-III Softball history. She started to show some real power too, with a still-standing program record .805 slugging percentage. It was also Luther's top base-stealing year with her 19 steals and 22 attempts breaking the program record and they remain top-five marks. Opening the season with a hit in 21-consecutive games, falling just one short of matching the conference record at the time, she immediately picked right back up and accrued 31-straight games with a hit for the remainder of 2013 and then into 2014, good the ODAC record and the seventh-longest hitting streak in the history of Division-III Softball. That senior year, Hayes' batting average remained robust at .532, the second-best in program history, while also setting the single-season ODAC record for doubles, with 23, as well as the program benchmarks for hits, with 74, HBP, with 11, and runs scored, with 63, with all of those marks still standing although her ODAC doubles record was finally matched in 2021. That season, Luther finished even atop the Division-III leaderboards in doubles, was third in runs scored per game, with 1.43, and sixth in batting average, on-base percentage, at .599, and doubles per game, with 0.52. She still possesses the conference record for career batting average, at .467, plus the program record for career runs scored, with 156. She stayed atop the program ranks for career hits and doubles until being passed by Makayla Carver '19 in 2019 while maintaining a top-five in mark in steals, slugging percentage, and triples.

The only multi-time First Team All-American in program history, Luther received the recognition from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) in both 2013 and 2014, as well as an NFCA First Team All-Atlantic Region and North Carolina Sports Information Association All-State Team honoree those same years. She was also a three-time All-ODAC pick and was just the program's third First Team selection in 2014.

Tom Schoendorf '85 (Men's Lacrosse)
A starting defenseman all four years under Hall of Fame men's lacrosse coach Geoff Miller, Tom Schoendorf '85 played in 40 games from 1982 through 1985.

Named team captain as a senior in 1985, Schoendorf helped propel the Quakers to a 33-17 record and an All Tri-State Lacrosse League Championship in 1982.

While the exact figures are not officially on record, Schoendorf paced the team in takeaways, the statistic now known as caused turnovers, in each of his four seasons at Guilford.

He was named First Team All Tri-State Lacrosse League in 1982, the only year in which the Quakers men's lacrosse squad was associated with a league. Later, as a senior in 1985, Schoendorf was named All-America Honorable Mention by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA)

Satiir Stevenson '15 (Football)
A ballhawk keeping the lid on the top of the Guilford football defense in 40 games from 2011 through 2014, Satiir Stevenson '15 stands as one of the most decorated players in program history.

Starting from the moment he stepped on campus at GC, Stevenson played a major role in the transformation of the Quakers football program as they went from a 2-8 team his freshman season to flipping that line as an 8-2 squad by his final campaign with the team. Cumulatively, they went 21-19 over his four seasons and claimed a share of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championship in 2014.

Stevenson spent the entirety of his four-year career littered throughout the program, conference, and national rankings. His four interceptions as a sophomore paced the ODAC and ranked tied for 90^th in the nation. He duplicated his interceptions total and maintained his spot atop the league as a junior, this time ranking tied for 59^th in all of Division-III football, but this time rounded out his game as he ranked eighth in the ODAC and 189^th nationally in total tackles, with 81, including sixth in the league and 192^nd in America in solo takedowns with 47, as well as second in the conference and 66^th in the nation by averaging 8.2 yards per punt return. Coming down with another four picks as a senior, he seized a tie for fifth in the ODAC and 88^th in the nation in that category while his 92 total tackles were good for fourth in the league and 97^th in the nation, and his 52 solos were ranked fifth and 116^th respectively. In Guilford football history, he ranks fourth in total interceptions, with 14, sixth in both total punt returns, with 35, and punt return yardage, with 283, and fifth in punt return average at 8.10. Additionally, he recorded 22 total tackles in GC's matchup against Washington & Lee University on October 4, 2014, a figure that stands as the most in a single game in program history.

A two-year All-American, receiving the honor from both the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and D3football.com in both 2013 and 2014, as well as from the Associated Press (AP) as First Team Little All-American in 2014, Stevenson also garnered a trio of AFCA All-South Region nods. At the conference level, he is one of just four Quaker football players to be named All-ODAC four times and to the All-ODAC First Team three times, but is the lone defender to hold both of those distinctions. He remains the lone GC football player to be honored as ODAC Defensive Player of the Year, in 2014.

Tom Palombo (Coach, Men's Basketball)
The winningest coach in the history of the Guilford College men's basketball program, Tom Palombo earns a swift induction after pursuing a new opportunity last spring at the conclusion of his 22^nd season at the helm of the Quakers.

Guiding GC to a winning record in every season but his third in Greensboro, among them nine 20-plus victory campaigns and a program NCAA-era record 30-win 2009-10 season, the Quakers never missed an ODAC Tournament under his guidance. Along the way, Palombo tallied a 420-179 record at Guilford and, including his five seasons at Defiance, brought his career men's basketball coaching record to 519-235, 35^th-most all-time by a Division-III head coach.

The Quakers earned eight NCAA Tournament berths with Palombo and went 20-8 once they got there. Five of those national tournament runs lasted to at minimum the Sectional Finals (NCAA Quarterfinals) Round, with a trio of Division-III Final Four berths in 2009, 2010, and 2024. Five times Guilford earned a spot in the field of 64 by way of an auto-bid as ODAC Tournament Champions in 2008, 2010, 2017, 2019, and just this past season, 2025, while the program has been terrific in the ODAC title game, going 5-1. GC also claimed the ODAC regular season crown four times, with the last one coming in 2017.

The 2010 Basketball Times National Coach of the Year, Palombo was also named the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division-III South District Coach of the year in 2019, 2009, and 2007 and the ODAC Bob Johnson Coach of the Year in 2017, 2009, 2007, and Co-Coach of the Year in 2004. As for his players, Palombo directed 24 Quakers to a combined 44 All-ODAC commendations, including three players of the year. Hall of Famers Ben Strong '08 and Tyler Sanborn '10 both won NABC Division III National Player of the Year honors in 2007 and 2010 respectively, with the latter being a consensus National Player of the Year. In 2024, Tyler Dearman became the program's first Josten's Trophy winner. Palombo also coached Guilford's only ODAC Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete of the Year award winner, Zach Houston, who won the award in both 2016 and 2017.

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 252 members and three teams. 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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