MORGANTOWN — Eleven outstanding contributors to Mountaineer athletics make up the 28th class of honorees in the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame, announced today by Director of Athletics Shane Lyons.

The 2018 class includes Kate Bulger (women’s basketball), Jon Capon (men’s soccer), Avon Cobourne (football), Mike Gansey (men’s basketball), Tom Keane (football), Larry Krutko (football), Eleanor Lamb (administration), Steve Slaton (football), Bev Fry Plocki (gymnastics), Pat White (football) and Web Wright (rifle).

Induction ceremonies will take place Saturday, Sept. 22, prior to the West Virginia-Kansas State football game.

Kate Bulger

A four-year letterwinner from 2001-04 and senior captain, Kate Bulger became the first Mountaineer drafted by the WNBA as the No. 38 pick of the Minnesota Lynx in the 2004 draft.

Bulger, a Pittsburgh native, was a four-time honoree in the Big East, named to the All-Big East Second Team her senior season, the third team her junior season, the second team as a sophomore and the Big East All-Rookie Team as a freshman. Starting every game of her career and never missing a game, Bulger led the Mountaineers in scoring in each of her four seasons, finishing with 1,732 points, which rank as the sixth-highest career point total in WVU women’s basketball history. She averaged 15.1 points per game, ranking seventh in WVU?s career record books, while recording 648-of-1,577 attempts from the field.

Jon Capon

A dominating goalkeeping force between the posts, Jon Capon was a four-year letterwinner and three-time team captain for men’s soccer from 1978-81.

Capon, a native of Rockville, Maryland, was a four-year starter for the Mountaineers, leaving WVU holding nearly every goalkeeping record at the school. He compiled a school-record 343 saves in 5,484 minutes played. Capon had a 1.17 goals allowed average (GAA) and 28 shutouts during his career, which were WVU career records for more than 25 years.

Avon Cobourne

Considered one of the greatest running backs in West Virginia football history, Avon Cobourne finished his career as WVU’s and the Big East’s rushing leader from 1999-2002, becoming the only player in school history to post four 1,000-yard rushing seasons.

Mike Gansey

Mike Gansey, who led WVU to the 2005 NCAA Elite Eight and the 2006 NCAA Sweet 16, is just one of nine Mountaineer basketball players to start every game of his WVU career.

Starting 68 games at WVU after transferring from St. Bonaventure, Gansey reached double figures in 25 games during the 2004-05 season, averaging 12.0 points per contest and scoring the most points on the team with 421. He led the Mountaineers in field goals (160), rebounds (180), rebounding average (5.1) and steals (57). Gansey led WVU to the championship game of the Big East Tournament and then to the NCAA Elite Eight, narrowly missing a spot in the NCAA Final Four with an overtime loss to Louisville. It was WVU’s highest finish in the NCAA Tournament since 1959.

Tom Keane

Tom Keane was a rare lettermen in football at West Virginia and Ohio State during the 1940s.

After an all-star high school career at Linsly Academy in Wheeling, West Virginia, the Bellaire, Ohio, native enrolled at Ohio State where the two-way back lettered as a freshman in 1944 on Ohio State’s undefeated, co-national championship team before serving 20 months in the United States Navy. Upon discharge, he enrolled at WVU and was a key contributor on the 1946 and 1947 teams.

Keane (pronounced Kane) was a second-round pick and 18th overall by the National Football League?s Los Angeles Rams in 1948. He played nine NFL seasons (87 games) as a defensive back-offensive end including the first four seasons with the Rams. In 1952, he played with the Dallas Texans before two seasons with the Baltimore Colts and ended his playing career in 1955 with the Chicago Cardinals.

He was a two-time All-Pro and played in the 1953 Pro Bowl, ranked second in the NFL in pass interceptions twice, and played in three NFL championship games including the 1951 Rams’ title team. From 1948-52, he and brother Jim Keane — the NFL’s leading pass receiver in 1947 while a Chicago Bear, played in the NFL.

Keane coached with the Chicago Cardinals from 1957-59 before returning to his native Ohio Valley where he became the first head coach of the Wheeling Ironmen professional football team for three seasons (1962-64). His 1962 and 1963 teams won United Football League championships, posting records of 9-4, 12-1 and 7-7.

Keane was a longtime assistant coach in the NFL, coaching in five Super Bowls with the Miami Dolphins. He returned to the NFL as an aide for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1965 before joining the original staff of the Dolphins in 1966 where he remained until retiring in 1985 to cap a 38-year pro career as a player or coach.

In five trips to the Super Bowl with Miami, Keane saw the Dolphins twice crowned world champions (1972 and 1973). The 1972 Miami team established an all-time NFL record with a 17-0 record and one of Keane?s defensive backs, Jake Scott, was named MVP in the Super Bowl. The next year, the Dolphins allowed only five touchdown passes, with Keane?s secondary rating much of the credit.

Keane is a member of the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference and Upper Ohio Valley Dapper Dan Halls of Fame and was selected the 1982 Upper Ohio Valley Dapper Dan Co-Man of the Year with Philadelphia Eagles assistant coach Fred Bruney.

Keane, and his wife, Mary, had two daughters, Candi and Mary, and two sons, Tom and Tim. He died at age 74 in 2001.

Larry Krutko

One of the best fullbacks in Mountaineer football history, Larry Krutko played at WVU from 1955-57 for coach Art Lewis.

The Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, native finished his three-year career with 297 carries for 1,407 yards, leading WVU in rushing yards in 1956 and 1957, while also playing linebacker on defense. Krutko currently ranks sixth in career rushing yards by a WVU fullback.

Eleanor Lamb

Eleanor Lamb, a lifelong resident of Morgantown, spent 55 years working in the WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics from 1958-2013

Lamb joined the WVU staff on June 9, 1958, as a secretary to then-athletic director Red Brown. She was named as an assistant to Brown in 1965 and was elevated to assistant athletic director on July 1, 1971, where she was involved with the financial details and arrangements of all athletic events. Lamb was the first female to hold a senior administrative role in the department’s history.

Bev (Fry) Plocki

One of the nation’s top gymnastics coaches, Bev (Fry) Plocki competed in gymnastics at West Virginia from 1985-87, leading the Mountaineers to three appearances in the NCAA Regional Championships and a 23-win season in 1985.

A native of Butler, Pennsylvania, Plocki was a gymnast at Alabama before transferring to West Virginia and competing for fellow WVU Sports Hall of Fame member Linda Burdette-Good. In addition to the three NCAA Regional appearances, Plocki led WVU to three runner-up finishes in the Atlantic 10 Conference. The 1987 team captain, Plocki earned a spot on the 1987 All-Atlantic 10 Bars Team and won the 1986 Sally Medrick Award as the team?s most improved gymnast.

Steve Slaton

Steve Slaton was one of the top play-making running backs in the nation from 2005-07, earning consensus All-America honors in 2006.

The Levittown, Pennsylvania, native rewrote the WVU and Big East record books during his three-year career as a Mountaineer, helping the Mountaineers to bowl wins in the 2005 Sugar Bowl, 2006 Gator Bowl and 2007 Fiesta Bowl.

Pat White

Pat White was the nation’s most versatile threat at quarterback, becoming the first college quarterback to start and win four consecutive bowl games from 2005-08.

The Daphne, Alabama, native set 19 WVU, Big East and national records during his illustrious career, including finishing as the all-time rushing quarterback in NCAA history with 4,480 yards (now ranks second).

West Virginia was 35-8 with White as the starting quarterback. He led the Mountaineers to bowl wins in the 2006 Sugar, 2007 Gator, 2008 Fiesta and 2008 Meineke Car Care. White set the Big East records in touchdowns responsible for (103), total offense (10,529) and became the first player in Big East history to pass for more than 10,000 yards. He posted a 7-2 record against Top 25 opponents.

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Web Wright

One of the best marksmen in WVU rifle history, Lt. Col. (Retired) Web Wright III was a seven time All-American and two-time national champion at West Virginia from 1985-89.

Wright led the Mountaineers to three national titles in 1986, 1988 and 1989. He was the only two-time NCAA smallbore national champion (1987 and 1988) in WVU history until 2018.