Six Sports Represented in Baylor 2025 Hall of Fame Class

[Ingram, Brent]

                BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – July 28, 2025

Six Sports Represented in 2025 Hall of Fame Class
Group to be inducted in November includes the first equestrian athlete honored

For more information, contact: Jerry Hill, 254-709-4994, jerry_hill at baylor.edu<mailto:jerry_hill at baylor.edu>

WACO, Texas -- In addition to the men’s basketball team’s all-time leading scorer and a quarterback that led Baylor to back-to-back conference championships, the 2025 Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame class includes the first equestrian athlete to be inducted.

Already named to the National Collegiate Equestrian Association’s inaugural Hall of Fame, six-time All-American Samantha Schaefer is joined by LaceDarius Dunn from men’s basketball, Bryce Petty. Cyril Richardson and Derek Turner from football, Hannah Burke from women’s golf, Taylor Ormond from women’s tennis and Chris Durbin from baseball.

Also recognized will be former football trainer Dusty Sanderson as the latest addition to the “B” Association Wall of Honor.

The 2025 Hall of Fame banquet is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, in the Hurd Welcome Center Grand Ballroom on the Baylor University campus. More information to come on ticket prices and making reservations for the Hall of Fame banquet.

The Hall of Fame inductees and Wall of Honor recipient also will be honored on the field at McLane Stadium during the Baylor-Utah football game on Saturday, Nov. 15.

Organized in 1960, the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame recognizes and honors individuals whose participation and contributions have enriched and strengthened the university's athletics program. Student-athletes are required to wait 10 years after completing their eligibility before they can be nominated for the Hall of Fame.

Beginning with the inaugural 1960 class that included coach Floyd Crow and baseball's Ted Lyons, 281 honorees have been elected or already enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

Baylor’s top golfer in the Sylvia Ferdon era, Burke was the Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2007, earned All-Big 12 honors in 2009 and 2010 and was a three-time Big 12 All-Tournament selection in 2007, 2009 and ‘10, highlighted by a runner-up finish as a senior.

Still tied for second in career top-10 (21) and top-5 finishes (13), she recorded 38 top-25 finishes in 46 career tournaments, winning the Challenge at Wolfdancer in 2007 with a course-record 67 on the final day to come from four strokes back. Currently ranked 83rd on the Order of Merit, Burke made it to the Ladies’ European Tour in 2012 and has 23 top-10 finishes, winning the 2015 Tipsports Golf Masters in the Czech Republic.

Baylor’s all-time leading scorer with 2,285 points, Dunn was bumped to No. 2 on the Big 12 career list by Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield (2,291) in 2016. Lace was a first-team All-District and consensus first-team All -Big 12 pick as a senior in 2011, when he averaged 19.5 points per game.

The program leader in 3-pointers made (388) and attempted (985) as well, Dunn was named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team in 2008, the Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year in 2009 and NCAA South Central Region All-Tournament in 2010, helping the Bears make a run to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight. He has played 13 years of professional basketball, the last six seasons with Hapoel Afula in Israel.

A career .345 hitter in four seasons with the Bears, Durbin still holds school records for career doubles (79) and extra-base hits (130), ranks second all-time in runs (236) and total bases (529) and top 10 in career hits (307), home runs (41), RBIs (169) and slugging percentage (.594).

He scored an NCAA-best 94 runs as a senior in 2003, when he hit .346 with 18 home runs and 50 RBIs for a 45-win team that lost to LSU in the Super Regional. Drafted in the 10th round by the Boston Red Sox in 2003, Durbin played four years in the minors and made it to the Double-A level with the Portland Sea Dogs.

Part of the Baylor women’s tennis team’s only two NCAA semifinal appearances (2008, 2011), Ormond was a three-time All-Big 12 selection in singles and once in doubles (2009) and won the NCAA Elite 88 Award as a senior in 2011. Taylor was the Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2008, when she was 29-16 playing No. 2 singles for a team that lost to Cal in the NCAA semifinals.

As a sophomore, she played No. 1 singles for a team that lost to Notre Dame in the NCAA quarterfinals, a squad that included Baylor Hall of Famer Lenka Broosova. After compiling overall records of 88-57 in singles and 84-44 in doubles, Ormond graduated from Baylor Law School in 2014 and has been an agent for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada since 2021.

Leading the Bears to back-to-back Big 12 championships in 2013 and ’14 – the first in program history – Petty was 21-4 as the starting quarterback and threw for 8,195 yards and 62 touchdowns with only 10 interceptions. As a junior, he passed for 4,200 yards and 32 touchdowns, earning consensus Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year and second-team All-America honors and winning the inaugural Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award.

Despite being on the short end of a 42-41 loss to Michigan State, Petty was named the 2015 Cotton Bowl Offensive MVP, throwing for a record 550 yards and three touchdowns. A top-10 pick for the Heisman Trophy in 2013 and ’14, Petty was taken in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL Draft and made seven starts in two seasons with the New York Jets, passing for 1,353 yards.

One of the most dominant offensive linemen in Big 12 history, Richardson was twice named the league’s Offensive Lineman of the Year (2012-13) and was a unanimous first-team All-American as a senior in 2013. Winning the Jim Parker Award as the nation’s top collegiate offensive lineman, he anchored an offensive line that helped the Bears rank No. 1 in the country in total offense (618.8 yards per game) and scoring (52.4 points per game).

Richardson was a member of the senior class that played in four-straight bowl games for the first time in school history, earned the program’s first Big 12 title and played in its first BCS bowl game. Drafted in the fifth round, he played in 12 games with four starts as a rookie with the Buffalo Bills and also played for the San Antonio Commanders in the AAF.

Named to the inaugural class for the National Collegiate Equestrian Association Hall of Fame in 2024, Schaefer was a three-time NCEA All-American in both fences and flat (2013-15). As a first-semester freshman in Spring 2012, she had the decisive ride in the Hunter Seat national championship final to help Baylor beat Texas A&M in a points tiebreaker.

As a senior, Sam swept her rides in fences and flat in in wins over TCU and Kansas State to lead the Bears to the Big 12 Championship. She was the Big 12 Rider of the Year in fences for three-consecutive years (2013-15) and a three-time All-Big 12 rider in both fences and flat those same three seasons. Since turning pro in 2017, Schaefer has continued to have success in events around the country.

After coming to Baylor as a walk-on, Turner developed into one of the Southwest Conference’s top defensive ends, earning all-league honors as a junior in 1984 and unanimous first-team accolades as a senior in ’85. Voted a team captain as a senior, he had 75 tackles, a team-high nine for losses and a blocked kick for a nine-win team that upset LSU in the Liberty Bowl.

An all-state pick at Deer Creek High School in Edmond, Okla., Turner backed up Ervin Randle his first two years at Baylor before blossoming as a junior, when he recorded 77 tackles, 15 for losses, five fumble recoveries and four blocked kicks. After earning his MBA from Baylor in 1986, Derek returned to Edmond to work with his family’s real estate development firm.

The “B” Association Wall of Honor recognizes Baylor letterwinners and graduates whose meritorious accomplishments in public or private life following graduation have brought positive public recognition, credit and honor to Baylor and the athletics department.

A native of Amarillo, Texas, Sanderson served as a student athletic trainer under Hall of Fame trainer T.C. “Skip” Cox while at Baylor from 1974-79 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1979. He has owned and operated his own oil and gas properties business, Sanderson Minerals, LLC., for the past 40-plus years and is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen.

An officer of the “B” Association for four years, Dusty was unanimously voted to hold the title of Executive Vice President Emeritus, a permanent advisory position on the board indefinitely (starting in 2021). He also served on the Baylor of Board of Regents as the “B” Association Regent representative from 2017-20 and was appointed to the Finance, Facilities and Student Life Committees.

Sanderson co-established the Dutch Schroeder Letterwinners Legacy Endowment with former baseball letterwinner and Wall of Honor recipient Jim Daniel and has continued to make significant yearly contributions to the endowment. He funded the installment of the state-of-the-art 25x10-foot digital media wall in the Letterwinners Lounge and organized, hosted and sponsored the Letterwinners Tailgate for 10 years, beginning with the 2014 opening of McLane Stadium.

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Brent Ingram | Associate AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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