Bobby Cremins

All-American point guard Travis Best and legendary basketball coach Bobby Cremins headline the 2006 induction class into the Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame.

Women's basketball star Karen Lounsbury Russell, volleyball All-American Cris Omiecinski Leone, baseball All-American Brad Rigby, track and field All-American Octavius Terry, football standout Kent Hill and football manager Gus Georgeton will also be inducted Oct. 6 during the annual Hall of Fame dinner at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.

Cremins led Tech to 354 victories and three Atlantic Coast Conference titles during his 19-year career. He worked as an analyst on ACC basketball telecasts for the last six years but recently accepted the head coaching position at the College of Charleston.

Best played 10 years in the NBA and remains No. 6 on Tech's all-time scoring list with 2,057 points.

Lounsbury Russell helped Tech's women's basketball team to the 1992 National Women's Invitational Tournament championship and remains Tech's No. 2 all-time scorer with 1,743 points.

Omiecinski Leone is the second member of Tech's first ACC championship volleyball team in 1995 to join the Hall of Fame, while Rigby, a 35-game winner over three years as a pitcher, becomes the fourth member of Tech's first College World Series baseball team to be elected.

Terry, one of many standout hurdlers to come through Georgia Tech, won or shared three NCAA championships and six ACC titles as a hurdler and a member of Tech's 400-meter relay team in the early to mid-1990s.

Hill, a standout offensive lineman for head coach Pepper Rodgers in the 1970s, is better known for his longevity as a lineman in the National Football League, having played 10 years for the Rams and Oilers.

Georgeton, a chemical engineer living in Texas, earned three academic degrees at Tech while also serving eight years as a manager on the football team spanning two head coaches, Rodgers and Bill Curry.

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