The rich and storied tradition of USF Athletics will come alive on Friday, February 22 with the induction of six new members and a team into the school's distinguished Athletic Hall of Fame. 
 
USF's Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2019, the 45th group of inductees, includes: Teresa (Russell) Fowler '04 (volleyball), Chubby Cox '78 (men's basketball), John Cox '05 (men's basketball), Dominique Carter '08 (women's basketball), Coach Walt Bugler 1976-80 (women's basketball), and Felipe Magalhaes '81 (men's soccer), as well as the 2009 women's cross country team.

With the inclusion of the new members, USF's Athletic Hall of Fame now includes 278 individuals and 23 teams.
 
Formal induction ceremonies are scheduled for Friday, Feb. 22 at the Father Hubert "Hub" Flynn Hall of Fame Dinner at War Memorial at the Sobrato Center. The festivities will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by the dinner program at 7:30 p.m. The inductees will also be honored at the women's basketball game on Feb. 23 against Gonzaga..
                                                                                                                                        
Individual reservations for the Father Hubert "Hub" Flynn Hall of Fame Dinner are priced at $100 while a table of 10 may be purchased for $900.
 
The only volleyball player in USF history to be in the top-10 in three categories, Teresa (Russell) Fowler is one of the most dominant players in program history – all while bouncing back from a horrific knee injury.  Fowler, a three-time All-WCC honoree, still ranks first in blocks (454), third in solo blocks (112), sixth in kills (1,244), and 10^th in digs (918), she is the only player in program history to be in the top-10 in kills, blocks and digs. In her final year on the Hilltop she earned the Anne Dolan Award presented to the top USF Female Student-Athlete.  That year, Fowler hit .312 with 457 kills (sixth best in a single season) and 138 blocks (fourth best in a single season) while she and her teammates went 23-8 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.
 
A two-time letter winner, Chubby Cox came to the Hilltop after two seasons at Villanova and immediately made an impact.  He helped guide the Dons to a 52-8 record winning back-to-back WCAC titles and two-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament.  While wearing the green and gold, Cox averaged 11.5 points per game, while dishing out 5.4 assists per contest, while shooting 47.9 percent from the field. Twice, he led the WCAC in assists dishing out 162 in '76-77 and 158 in '77-78.  His senior year he earned First Team All-WCAC honors while scoring 400 points.  In the Dons win over North Carolina in the opening round of the 1978 NCAA Tournament, he scored 12 points while grabbing five rebounds.  Later that year he was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the eighth round – one of four players drafted by the NBA that year.  Met his wife Victory at USF, she was a former Dons' cheerleader.
 
One of the greatest 3-point shooters and scorers in USF history, John Cox carved his own path in USF lore.  The 6-5 shooting guard played at USF from 1999-05, he missed nearly two full seasons due to injury and still ranks ninth in the school all-time scoring list with 1,540 career points, third in 3-point field goals (185), and ninth all-time in games played (117). In his senior season he helped guide the Dons to a 17-14 overall record and a berth in the NIT. He led USF in scoring that season, averaging 20.0 points per game which ranks 15^th in USF single season history.  His 621 points scored that year is eighth most in a single season and led the WCC earning him First Team All-WCC Honors. Cox still plays professionally in France and has represented Venezuela, the country he was born in, in the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.  He and his father become the first father/son combo in the USF Hall of Fame.
 
Dominique Carter came to the Hilltop sporting some impressive prep credentials.  The McDonalds All-American nominee averaged 29.3 points per game and 9.9 rebounds per game in high school. Once she got to USF nothing changed.  She was a dynamic scorer who was more than capable of creating her own shot and had a unique ability to score in a variety of ways. The four-time First Team All-WCC honoree and three-time WCC All-Academic Honoree led the Dons in scoring all four seasons. She is the second leading scorer in USF history, trailing only Mary Hile-Nepfel, the coach who recruited her to USF.  She is second in 3-point shooting percentage (41.0 percent), third in scoring average (15.4 ppg), and sixth in minutes played.  Following her playing career, Carter currently works as a portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Bank, and does volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity. 
 
As prolific a goal scorer as USF ever had, Felipe Magalhaes is one of USF's most dominant players in an era of stellar play.  A member of the 1980 National Championship squad, Magalhaes came to USF in the fall of 1978 and wasted little time making an impact.  In three seasons on the pitch for the Dons he ranks second all-time in points (116), third in goals (46) and fifth in assists (26).  In his freshman campaign he tallied 11 assists, which still ranks fifth in USF history. In his sophomore campaign he was a key member of a Dons' squad that scored 133 goals, a program record.  He personally sent 19 to the back of the net that season which ranks seventh most in a single season.  His final year, he earned All-Pacific Conference honors, which led legendary head coach Steve Negoesco to state; "We don't have that many All-Americans because coaches don't want us to win everything.  So, we go out and win the National Championship and other teams vote their players All-American so everyone is happy." That season, Magalhaes scored 16 goals.  In the post season that year, he scored both goals in the 2-1 win over UCLA in the Far West Regional Championship.  Following his playing days at USF he returned to Brazil in 1995 and started his realty company in Rio de Janeiro, he is still active in local soccer circles in Rio.
 
Walt Bugler served as the first head coach for the San Francisco women's basketball program for four years, from its first intercollegiate competition in 1976 through the 1979-80 season. The Dons found immediate success under Bugler, who took them from a 5-15 record in their first season to a still-school-record 28 wins and a Northern California Athletic Conference championship in 1979-80. The Dons made their third straight appearance in the national tournament that year after finishing third in Region 8 of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. Bugler helped grow the program from its roots playing local teams to taking on nationally recognized names like UCLA, Old Dominion and Louisiana Tech. His position was only part-time, but he invested his passion, knowledge and desire into the program to rise it from its beginnings.

The 2009 cross country season proved to be a historic one for the USF program. A young group of runners — two freshmen, a sophomore and two juniors — held off Loyola Marymount by seven points to give the Dons their first-ever WCC women's cross country championship at the Belmont Crystal Springs cross country course.  The first conference championship proved to be the beginning of a dynasty for the Dons who, with that core of young runners would go on to win the 2010, '11, '12, and '13 WCC Championship. Four runners earned All-WCC honors and were led by Hillary Kigar who captured fourth, followed by Heather Zytkewicz (5^th), Nicole Bowler (6^th) and Eva Krchova (10^th). At the NCAA West Regional Championships that season, the Dons captured their first ever top-10 finish as a team, taking 10^th.