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FROM STAFF REPORTS

MONTEVALLO – The University of Montevallo Athletic Department officially inducted the 2025 UM Athletics Hall of Fame class on Friday, Jan. 31 at the Song Center for the Arts.

Montevallo Athletics welcomed four individuals and one team to the Hall of Fame, Friday, bringing the total to 149 individuals and seven teams.

Women’s golf received its third inductee with Arin Eddy Cockrell entering the Hall of Fame.

Eddy Cockrell turned in a standout career at Montevallo from 2015-17, in which she entered Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year honors in 2017 and won the 2017 PBC Individual Championship.

In addition, she was a three-time All-PBC First Team selection and two-time All-American.

Milan Pualic joined a standout group of existing hall of famers for men’s soccer. Pualic scored 28 goals, tallied 34 assists and played in 74 games during his career.

He helped the Falcons to 61 wins, a Gulf South Conference Championship and a NCAA Division II Final Four run in 2007. Pualic earned three All-Conference selections, three All-Region nods and was named an All-American.
Baseball’s Robert Hendershot joined the Hall of Fame after a standout career on the mound.

Hendershot enters the hall as the all-time career record holder in pickoffs (43) and the single-season pickoff record holder (23). He helped UM to an Alabama Collegiate Conference Championship and NAIA District 27 Championship.

Dr. Paul N. Doran Jr. was a member of the men’s golf team in 1966-67 and has amassed decorated resume in public service.

Doran spent early 33 years in education in a variety of sectors and has remained heavily involved at Montevallo in various way. He has served on the UM Foundation Board of Directors and UM National Alumni Association Board as President, Vice President and board chairman.

He also was president for Montevallo’s Jefferson County Alumni Association for 16 years. His contributions continued into the community as he was a founding member of the Hoover City Schools Board of Education and created the Homewood Library Foundation.

For 15 years, Doran served on the St. Vincent’s Health System board of directors and was a founding member of Alabama’s Chapter of the American Liver Foundation. He has given back to Montevallo through his philanthropic efforts in countless ways.

The 1981 men’s golf team is the most successful team in program history. The team featured regular starters Larry Adams, Norm Tums, Greg Aderhold, Les Holcombe and Tim Mosteferis, along with Scott Henderson and William Brummitt. Adams and Tums have each been previously inducted to the Hall of Fame as individuals.

The team, led by Hall of Fame head coach and athletic director Dr. Leon Davis, earned four tournament wins and one runner up finish through 10 events played. Three players combined for five individual wins during the season while five players totaled 22 all-tournament selections.

In 1981, the team won its second straight Southern States Conference Championship and NAIA District 27 Championship. Davis was named NAIA District 27 Coach of the Year. The team went on to compete in the NAIA National Championship tournament for the second consecutive season and turned in a program-best 11th place finish.

In a letter to the team, Davis said the 1981 team took the men’s golf program from “obscurity to national prominence.”