ASHLAND – The Southern Oregon University Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024, comprising five individuals among the best at their crafts in school history, has been selected.

The newest inductees are Stephanie Carr (2009-12), the top goal-scorer in SOU women's soccer history; Austin Dodge (2011-14), the NAIA football Player of the Year whose national passing records still stand; late football coach Craig Howard (2011-16), who partnered with Dodge to deliver an NAIA championship; national champion track and field thrower Scott Myers (2005-06); and two-time women's basketball All-American Jacki Speer (2006-10).

They'll enter the Hall officially at a ceremony in SOU's Rogue River Room on Sept. 21. Ticket information will be made available soon.

Carr scored 36 goals over her four seasons with the Raiders, claiming the career record as a senior, and is responsible for three of the nine 10-goal campaigns in program history. She twice received NAIA All-America honorable mention and was a three-time member of the All-Cascade Conference first team. The Raiders totaled 39 wins with her on the pitch, and she tallied game-winners in 14 of them to establish another school record.

Dodge, a three-time Frontier Conference Offensive Player of the Year who earned the country's top honor in 2014, remains the most prolific quarterback the NAIA has ever seen. He still holds single-season national records for passing yards (5,607, 2014) and passing yards per game (423, 2012), as well career records for passing yards (17,261) and completions (1,253). His career passing-yardage total is the best by a margin of 3,228 yards; the difference between Nos. 1 and 2 on that list is greater than the difference between Nos. 2 and 10. He threw for 154 touchdowns for the Raiders – another national record at the time – and notched the last three during his final appearance, a 55-31 blowout of Marian (Ind.) in the 2014 NAIA championship game.

The Raiders captured that title under Howard, who arrived in Ashland in 2011 on the heels of an eight-season stretch in which SOU averaged three wins. The Raiders were Frontier champions by the end of his second season. By his fourth they were on top of the NAIA, and by his fifth, despite losing Dodge, they returned to the championship game after another improbable run through the playoffs. During their back-to-back runs to the title round, Howard led the Raiders to upsets of two top-ranked teams, a No. 2-ranked team and a No. 3-ranked team, all on the road. He died in 2017, following his sixth season, with a career record of 50-23. His win percentage of .685 is the best in program history.

Myers, a North Medford High product, competed only two seasons for the Raiders but stands as one of three individuals in SOU men's track and field history with three top-two national finishes. He celebrated the team's eighth individual NAIA title in 2005 with a win in the shot put and was a runner-up in the discus at the same meet. In 2006, he returned to the national stage with a second-place effort in the shot put. Also a reserve lineman for the Raider football team, he won three Cascade Conference titles and continues to hold the No. 2 spot on SOU's all-time shot put performance list with a mark of 59 feet 7 inches.

By the time Speer left in 2010, she owned the SOU women's basketball team's career rebounding record (1,358) by a comfortable margin, was one point off the team's all-time soring record (1,864) and was No. 2 on the blocked-shots list (130). She turned in the only 20-10 season in Raider history as a senior, averaging 20.6 points, 13.8 rebounds and 1.9 blocks to become the Cascade Conference Player of the Year and a selection to the NAIA All-America second team. She'd made the third team a year earlier, and a year before that pushed the Raiders to conference regular-season and tournament titles. The forward was a three-time CCC all-star and helped SOU go 92-34 during her career, averaging 23 wins per season.