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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University Athletics Hall of Fame will officially welcome six new members at the annual Hall of Fame induction banquet Sept. 11. The Class of 2021 was announced today by SRU director of athletics and Hall of Fame committee chair Roberta Page.
 
The Class of 2021 includes:
 
• D.J. Flick – Football/Track and Field (attended 1998-01)
• Gie Parsons – Women's Basketball (class of 1971)
• Patrick Reagan – Cross Country/Track and Field (class of 2010)
• Ken Seymore II – Swimming/Water Polo (class of 1997)
• Rick Thompson – Wrestling (class of 1977)
• Nikki (Frey) Weaver – Track and Field (class of 2000)

Men's soccer standout Jeremy Deighton (class of 2010) was also elected into the Hall of Fame this year, but is unable to attend the banquet. Deighton will officially be inducted next fall as part of the 2022 Hall of Fame class. In addition to Deighton's celebration being delayed one year, SRU will also shift its planned special recognition for the undefeated 1969-70 wrestling team to a later date. That celebration was originally planned for 2020, but the Hall of Fame ceremonies were canceled due to the pandemic. Members of the team have elected to move the celebration to a future date when more teammates may attend.
 
The 37th annual induction ceremony will take place Sept. 11 prior to SRU's home football game against East Stroudsburg University. The event will be hosted in the Robert M. Smith Student Center ballroom and begins with a social hour at 1:30 p.m., followed by dinner and the induction ceremonies at 2:30 p.m. The induction class will then be recognized during halftime of the football game (6 p.m. kickoff) at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium.
 
Tickets for the 2021 SRU Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are $40 each if reserved by Sept. 5. A full table (eight tickets) can be purchased for $320. Children under 12 will be admitted for $15. Tickets can be ordered online at the link above or by calling 888-778-6389.
 
The addition of the six-person Class of 2021 increases the number of former Rock student-athletes, coaches and contributors inducted into the Hall of Fame to 257.
 
The following are brief profiles of members of the Hall of Fame Class of 2021, listed in alphabetical order.
 

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D.J. FLICK
- Sports: Football, Track and Field
- Attended: 1998-01
- Highlights: Four-time first team All-PSAC selection and two-time All-American as a receiver and kick returner on The Rock football team, set multiple career records related to receiving and combined returns, still holds SRU track and field records in long jump outdoor and 200-meter dash indoor, seven-time PSAC champion in track and field events, was an All-Star player in the Canadian Football League.
 
Flick was a standout athlete for both The Rock football and men's track and field programs, competing for four seasons as a football athlete and three as a track and field athlete. He burst onto the scene in 1998 by being named PSAC Rookie of the Year after his freshman season. Flick would end up helping The Rock to three straight PSAC titles and two appearances in the NCAA playoffs from 1998-01.  
 
During his time on the football team, Flick was named to first team All-PSAC honors in all four seasons with two selections as a receiver and two as a return specialist. He set single-season records for punt return yards (413), punt returns (36), punt return average (15.8 yards), kick return yards (558) and kick return average (39.9) and still holds the single-game record for the longest punt return (92 yards).
 
He finished his career with 101 catches for 2,005 yards with 21 touchdowns, 100 punt returns for 1,183 yards with six touchdowns and 56 kick returns for 1,554 yards and four touchdowns. Flick set career records for punt return touchdowns, all-purpose yards (4,794), punt return yards, punt returns, punt return average (11.8 yards), kick return yards, total return touchdowns (10) and receiving yards per catch (19.85).
 
Flick joined the track and field team and wasted little time in adding to his PSAC trophy collection by winning seven individual and relay titles and twice being named the PSAC Most Outstanding Athlete. He still holds the SRU indoor record in the 200-meter dash (21.62 seconds) and the outdoor long jump record (7.55 meters). Flick claimed PSAC titles in the long jump, 55-meter dash, 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and as a member of the 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams.
 
Flick left SRU before finishing his degree requirements to pursue a professional football career. He went on to play seven seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Ottawa Renegades, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He was a three-time divisional All-Star, was named to the overall CFL All-Star team once and helped Saskatchewan to the 2007 Grey Cup title.
 
After finishing his professional football career, Flick returned to college to earn his undergraduate degree in 2010 from Ashford University. He added a master's degree from the University of Alabama in 2014.
 
Flick currently lives in Westmont, Illinois with his wife, Erin, and their three children, Julius, Lincoln Steven and Lincoln Tyler. He is employed by the City of Chicago as a safety administrator.

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GIE PARSONS
- Sport: Women's Basketball
- Graduation Year: 1971, 1985 (master's)
- Highlights: Ranks fifth in PSAC career history in women's basketball coaching wins, inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Western Chapter, four-time PSAC Coach of the Year, won a total of 462 games over 33 years as a head coach between Thiel and Clarion.
 
Parsons played two seasons of women's basketball at Slippery Rock before graduating in 1971 and embarking on a highly successful collegiate coaching career, the merits of which have landed her in the Rock Athletics Hall of Fame.
 
She earned her degree in health and physical education and began her career as a teacher at Lakeview High School, where she also coached from 1971-74 before leaving the country to spend six years playing professional basketball. She played in Australia and New Zealand while she continued to teach and coach overseas.
 
Parsons returned to Slippery Rock in 1980-81 to officially transition her career from coaching at the high school level to the collegiate level when she served as a graduate assistant. She was hired at Thiel the following year and would spend the next 33 years as a head coach.
 
Her name will sound familiar to those associated with PSAC and Division II basketball as Parsons retired as Clarion University's head coach after a 25-year run in 2014. During those 25 seasons, she led Clarion to five PSAC West titles, three PSAC overall titles, two trips to the NCAA Elite Eight, two trips to the NCAA Round of 16 and six NCAA Division II playoff appearances.
 
Parsons posted a career record of 352-336 over 25 years at Clarion, which came after she started her collegiate head coaching run with a record of 110-73 during a span of eight years at Thiel College. Her combined head coaching record of 462-409 in 33 years put her in an elite group of coaches with more than 400 career wins.
 
During that stretch, Parsons was named the PSAC Western Division Coach of the Year four times and was the WBCA Region Two Coach of the Year in 2005. She was also honored with the 1992 Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award before being inducted into the Thiel College Hall of Fame in 2007 and the PA Sports Hall of Fame's Western Chapter in 2011.

In addition to her coaching career at Clarion, Parsons also served on the Board of Directors for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, was a member of the Clarion Athletics Hall of Fame committee and served more than 20 years as a director of the Adopt-a-Highway program.

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PATRICK REAGAN
- Sports: Cross Country, Track and Field
- Graduation Year: 2010
- Highlights: Two-time All-American and three-time All-Region honoree in cross country, eight-time All-PSAC honoree in track and field, four-time national qualifier in track and field, still holds the SRU 5,000-meter record, has become one of the top ultrarunners in the United States.
 
Reagan earns a spot in the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility after graduating in 2010 following one of the best distance running careers in SRU history.

He excelled in all three seasons at SRU during his career, but really shined in cross country, where he earned two All-America honors in 2007 and 2008. He helped The Rock to a ninth place finish in the team standings at the 2007 National Championships when he was the first SRU runner across the line in 12th place overall. Reagan also earned three All-Region honors in cross country and finished inside the top seven at the PSAC Championships twice.
 
He set and still holds the indoor 5,000-meter record at SRU with his time of 14:26.03 in 2008, which earned him a trip to the national meet in 2008, where he placed ninth. Reagan also earned three trips to the National Championships outdoor, placing 12th and 10th in the 5,000-meter run and 13th in the 10,000-meter run. Under the current All-America rules in Division II, he would have earned three additional All-America honors in track and field to go with his two in cross country.
 
At the PSAC level, Reagan was an eight-time All-PSAC finisher in track events and was a four-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete for his work in the classroom.
 
After graduating from Slippery Rock in 2010, Reagan took a brief detour from the running community when he traveled the country playing washboard percussion and tenor guitar in several ragtime and jug-bands that played in 36 different states through 2011. He returned to running when he was hired as the head cross country coach at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia in 2011.
 
Reagan spent seven seasons as the head cross country coach at SCAD, where he led the women's team to seven NAIA National Championship meets before retiring from his position in 2018. He stepped away from collegiate coaching to focus on his professional running career, which had blossomed alongside his coaching career. He signed a professional running contract to run for the Hoka One One team in long distance races throughout the world.
 
Reagan has been a staple in the ultrarunning community over the last decade, first making a name for himself in 2016 when he was a member of Team USA at the 100K World Championships, where he placed third overall and led the American team. He also qualified for and competed in the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in the marathon. He went on to be named the USA Track and Field Ted Corbitt Ultrarunner of the Year in 2017 after he won the Javelina Jundred 100-mile race and was the first American and the 12th overall finisher in the Comrades Marathon, an 89-kilometer race in South Africa.
 
Reagan owns the course record and is a three-time champion at the Javelina Jundred, most recently claiming the 2019 title. He also won the USATF 100-mile trail national title and set a meet record in 2019 and took eighth overall in the storied Western States 100-mile Endurance Run in 2019. He followed that performance with another top 20 showing at Western States with a 19th place finish in 2021.
 
Reagan currently resides in Savannah, Georgia with his wife, Adrienne, while he trains and competes as a professional runner and also coaches other runners through his coaching business

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KEN SEYMORE II
- Sports: Swimming, Water Polo
- Graduation Year: 1997
- Highlights: Set SRU records in the 500 freestyle, the 1,000 freestyle and as part of the 800 freestyle relay, six-time All-PSAC honoree in swimming, won the 1995 PSAC title in the 500 freestyle. 
 
Seymore graduated from Slippery Rock in 1997 after swimming for four seasons and playing one season of water polo at The Rock.
 
A two-year captain in 1995 and 1996, Seymore shined in the distance freestyle events. He placed in the top six in every event he swam at the PSAC Championships during his career, highlighted by a win in the 1995 500-yard freestyle event. He holds SRU records in the 500 freestyle (4:40.05), the 1,000 freestyle (9:53.49) and as part of the 800 freestyle relay (7:03.01). A six-time All-PSAC honoree, Seymore also set the SRU pool record in the 1,650 freestyle event.
 
In addition to his excellence in the pool, Seymore was also active on the SRU campus, where he served as the vice president of the Student-Athlete Mentor group for two years and was treasurer of the Park Ranger Society.
 
After graduating from Slippery Rock, Seymore continued his athletic career recreationally. He won and set a course record for a 5-mile swimming race across Lake Saranac and then shifted to power lifting, where he won the Rush Fitness Center bench press title three years in a row from 2007-09.
 
Seymore has been employed by the U.S. Forest Service since 2001, where he has worked in the Uwharrie National Forest in North Carolina, Tongass National Forest in Alaska and the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee.
 
He was a member of the Tennessee Governor's Drug Task Force for eight years and has also worked as a security manager on a number of large wildfires during his time with the U.S. Forest Service.
 
Seymore, originally from Altoona, Pennsylvania, has a daughter named Clara and currently resides in Delano, Tennessee.

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RICK THOMPSON
- Sport: Wrestling
- Graduation Year: 1977
- Highlights: Two-year captain at SRU that was a two-time regional champion at 134 pounds, won the 1975-76 PSAC title at 134 pounds, two-time NCAA qualifier and was a member of SRU's lone PSAC team championship.
 
Rick Thompson earns his spot in the SRU Hall of Fame on the merits of his career as a wrestler at The Rock, but he also could have earned a spot thanks to the coaching and educational leadership record he compiled after leaving SRU in 1977.
 
At The Rock, Thompson compiled a record of 78-23 over four seasons for a .772 winning percentage on the mat, where he shined at the 134-pound weight class. He placed in the top four at the PSAC Championships in every year of his career, headlined by a win at the 1975-76 championships. He also took second in 1974 and third in 1977.
 
In addition to his success at the PSAC level, Thompson was a two-time regional champion at 134 pounds, qualified for two National Championship competitions and served as the team captain for two seasons. He also helped The Rock to their only team PSAC title in 1974-75 when he was fourth at 134 pounds and was named to the NCAA Division I East-West All-Star team in 1977.
 
After leaving Slippery Rock, Thompson embarked on a career in education, ultimately retiring in 2017 after serving as a physical education and health teacher and coach for 40 years. He spent 35 years at the high school level, where also racked up an impressive coaching record, before closing his career with five years at the elementary level.
 
As a coach, Thompson amassed an incredible 1,079 combined wins in the sports of wrestling and cross country. The most recent stop in his wrestling journey was a brief stint at Bethlehem Catholic, where he went 6-1 in 2019 to bring his wrestling head coaching record to 477-232-4. He also coached at Bangor Area High School and his Alma Mater, Phillipsburg High School in New Jersey. He coached teams to 15 state sectional titles and helped wrestlers win 96 district titles and nine state championships across Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
 
In addition to his wrestling record, Thompson also racked up a 407-83 record as the boys' cross country coach at Phillipsburg and a record of 195-39-1 with the girls' cross country team. He led the teams to a total of seven East Penn titles, 11 sectional titles and his boys claimed the 2005 state title in New Jersey, which landed him the Newark Star Ledger and Express Times Coach of the Year honors.
 
Thompson, who now resides in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, is survived by his late wife, Denise, who also graduated from Slippery Rock in 1977. He has one son, R.J. Thompson Jr., who resides in Stowe, Vermont with his wife Olivia and their son Barkley.

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NIKKI (FREY) WEAVER
- Sport: Track and Field
- Graduation Year: 2000, 2003 (doctor of physical therapy)
- Highlights: Two-time All-America in the 400-meter hurdles, six-time PSAC champion in the hurdle races, six-time national qualifier, former SRU record holder in both the 100-meter and 400-meter hurdles. 
 
Weaver earned a pair of degrees from Slippery Rock, first receiving her undergraduate degree in exercise science in 2000 before going on to complete her doctor of physical therapy degree in 2003. She excelled on the track and in the classroom, racking up numerous awards for her performance in both arenas.
 
On the track, she broke both the 100-meter and 400-meter hurdle records at SRU numerous times and also ran on record setting relay teams. She wasted little time in climbing to the top of the PSAC after she claimed the 100-meter and 400-meter hurdle titles in her sophomore season, setting PSAC championship and Millersville facility records in the process. She was named the Outstanding Track Athlete at the PSAC Championships for her efforts. Weaver used that success at the conference level to propel her to success on the national stage when she earned her first career All-America award with a fourth place finish in the 400-meter hurdles at nationals in 1998.
 
Over the rest of her career, Weaver would sweep every 100-meter and 400-meter hurdle title at the PSAC Championships to finish with six individual titles. She was a six-time national qualifier in the hurdle races and competed in three National Championship meets, capping her career in 2000 with a third place finish in the 400-meter hurdles to pick up her second career All-America award.
 
In addition to her dominance on the track, Weaver was a three-time Division II All-Academic honoree, was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and graduated Magna Cum Laude.
 
She married fellow SRU alumnus and track and field teammate David Weaver, who also earned his doctor of physical therapy degree from The Rock. The couple are both employed by WellSpan Health, where they work as physical therapists. They reside in York, Pennsylvania and have two daughters, Lily and Lexy, who are both participating in track and field.
 
Weaver is well-connected in the York community, where she volunteers as an assistant track and field coach with the Trojan Track Club, working with children ages 5-15, and as an assistant coach at West York Middle School. She is also active at BARk (Boro Animal Response krew), a non-profit dog rescue team that supports needy animals in the community and she also volunteers as an assistant director of the Impact Academy, an all-female travel basketball organization.
 


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