Indiana Athletics has added six inductees to its Hall of Fame, IU athletic director Scott Dolson announced Friday in a press release.
The six honorees are Kayla Bashore (field hockey, 2002-05), Kevin Berry (men’s swimming, 1964-66), Danny O’Rourke (men’s soccer, 2001-04), Victor Oladipo (men’s basketball, 2010-13), Max Skirvin (radio broadcaster, contributor 1950-2000), and Jody Yin (women’s tennis, 1991-94).
The class of 2024 is the 39th to be inducted into the Indiana Athletics Hall of Fame, which now boasts 255 former Hoosier athletes.
Indiana will officially welcome its newest members to the club Sept. 20 at the university’s annual Hall of Fame dinner. The inductees will be honored the following day at halftime of Indiana football’s home game against the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
“These six individuals have contributed enormously to the prestige and impact of Indiana University Athletics, and we are excited to welcome this elite group to our Hall of Fame,” Dolson said in a press release.
Bashore was the 2005 Big Ten Player of the Year, a three-time first-team All-Big Ten selection and two-time All-American, including a first-team nod in 2005. As a senior in 2005, she led IU field hockey to a program-record 17 wins.
Bashore represented Team USA at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. In 2019, she returned to Bloomington, taking over as head coach of the Indiana field hockey program, a role she presently still holds.
Berry swam three years at IU in the mid-1960s and earned All-American honors each season. A 1980 inductee into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, Berry set 12 world records in the butterfly and won a gold medal in the 200 butterfly at the 1964 Olympics.
O’Rourke ended his soccer career in Bloomington as a captain on back-to-back national championship teams in 2003-04. In 2004, O’Rourke won the MAC Hermann Trophy Award as the national player of the year. He was twice an All-American and thrice a first-team All-Big Ten selection.
Oladipo played an integral role in Indiana men’s basketball’s early-2010s turnaround under head coach Tom Crean. In 2012-13, Oladipo was a consensus first-team All-American and co-winner of the National Defensive Player of the Year award while guiding the Hoosiers to their first Big Ten title in 11 years and first NCAA tournament No. 1 seed in two decades.
After departing Indiana in 2013, Oladipo was drafted No. 2 overall by the Orlando Magic. He has played in the National Basketball Association for 10 years, earning a pair of All-Star nods.
Skirvin is best known for working alongside Don Fischer on the IU Radio Network from 1973-2000. Before working with Fischer, Skirvin called football and men’s basketball games for WTTS (Bloomington) radio and helped build the IU Radio Network’s brand.
Yin was a four-time first-team All-American selection from 1991-94 during a golden era for Indiana women’s tennis, as the Hoosiers won the Big Ten championship and made the NCAA tournament in each of Yin’s four seasons. She went 142-42 in singles, ranking second in program history in both singles victories and singles win percentage (77.1%).
