By ALLI SCHIEBER
Editor-in-Chief
Saturday four new Northwestern alums will be inducted into the NWOSU sports hall of fame during the halftime of the men’s basketball game at Percefull fieldhouse.
The four new inductees consist of Shannon Frascht, Tom McDaniel, Fred Slaughter and Selina Lamar-White. At halftime of the girls’ basketball game Saturday there will be a recognition of previously inducted hall of famers there will also be a sports hall of fame luncheon at 11 a.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.
Frascht is being inducted into the sports hall of fame for being a member of the Northwestern Rodeo Team from 1985-1989. After graduating from Northwestern Frascht went on to be successful in professional rodeo before he returned to Northwestern in 2011 as a rodeo coach. Frascht has qualified for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Prairie Circuit finals over 20 times from 1990-2024.
McDaniel was a leader while at Northwestern he was the starting quarterback for football as well as a team captain for the Ranger basketball team. As starting quarterback McDaniel led the 1957 football team, including hall of famer J.C. Riekenberg, to win the championship.
Slaughter was also a two-sport athlete and played football from 1990-1993 as a cornerback.
Slaughter also ran track in 1991 and 1992 wheere he ran the 400 meter.
Slaughter was the Norhtwestern head football coach from 2005-2007.
Lamar-White played Women’s Soccer at Northwestern. She wass a defender for the Rangers from 2001-2004. She then became and assistant coach from 2005-2009 for the Rangers.
She played in all 80 games in her collegiate career as a defender and tied Northwestern’s career record for most games played as a defender and matches the single season record of 21 games.