THE 2020 CLASS OF ROYALS ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
Soce Faye ’98 compiled 904 points and 576 rebounds playing men’s basketball. His senior year, Faye averaged a double-double with 18.3 points and 11.2 rebounds per game, leading the Royals to their first conference regular season championship during the 1997-98 season. That same season Queens also won the CVAC (Carolinas- Virginia Athletic Conference, now Conference Carolinas) Tournament and advanced to NCAA Championship play.
Stephan Leblanc ’09 totaled 145 points in his four-year men’s lacrosse career. Later on he became the first Queens lacrosse player to play professionally after he was selected in the first round of the National Lacrosse League draft.
Crystal Henderson-Walch ’04 totaled seven goals and four assists as a center back on the women’s soccer team her senior year to help the Royals go 5-3-2 in CVAC play. As a result, Henderson-Walch earned CVAC Player of the Year honors and was named to the CVAC All- Conference First Team.
Tanya Zeferjahn ’10 is a four-time U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-American, and she was also the first female student-athlete at Queens to win a national championship after winning the 10k at the NCAA Division II outdoor track and field championships two years in a row.
Charles Gordon was the first men’s tennis coach hired at Queens. The Royals played their inaugural collegiate season in 1988. After joining the CVAC in 1995, Gordon led the team to its first NCAA Championship appearance during the 1998-99 season with 2011 Queens Hall of Fame inductee KoKo Dawood ’01.
Jill Langford Dame ’78 was a member of the women’s tennis and volleyball teams and was also president of the student government association. In addition, Dame was a member of Chi Omega, Mortar Board, Valkyrie and Concert Choir. Over the years, Dame has practiced law, served as a teacher and professor, and worked as a consultant and interim executive director in the nonprofit sector.
—Phylicia Short ’07
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