Aug. 28, 2003

Charleston, SC - Regan Truesdale '85, the school's all-time leading basketball scorer, and Dick Horne '62, among the college's most noted golfers, highlight the list of five to be inducted into The Citadel Athletic Hall of Fame on November 1.

Also entering the Hall as members of the Class of '03 are football player Ken Diaz '69, baseball player Billy Swails '89 and supporter Jerry Varn '53, who enters as an honorary member. The five will increase the membership of the Hall of Fame, which originated in 1977, to 123.

A two-time recipient of the Malcolm U. Pitt Award, signifying the Southern Conference's player-of-the-year, Truesdale, a native of Heath Springs, scored 1,661 points during his illustrious career that also included twice being named to the first team all-conference. He continues to hold the school record for points in a career and season (624), made field goals in a career (638) and season (242), field goals attempted for a game (32) and season (477), and free throws made in a game (22). His 688 career rebounds remains as the fourth best effort in Citadel history.

Horne may be one of the best-ever golfers in Citadel history by virtue of his capturing the 1961 South Carolina Intercollegiate Championship. Serving as the team captain, he tied for the Southern Conference (Individual) Championship in 1962 with a 71 average. Since graduating from The Citadel, Horne's list of accomplishments is unprecedented for a Citadel golfer, including enshrinement in the South Carolina Golf Hall of Fame.

Diaz, originally from Coral Gables, FL, was a hard-nosed defensive end who earned three letters playing football. Named to the all-state team and all-Southern Conference team during his senior year in 1968, Diaz also received an honorable mention all-American citation that season. Somewhat overshadowed by playing on the same defense as first-team all-American John Small, Diaz played on Red Parker-coached teams that won 14 games in three seasons.

Swails, of Mt. Pleasant, lettered four times for Chal Port-coached baseball teams, and earned all-Southern Conference honors three times as a second baseman. He earned a spot as a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association All-America Team in 1989. That year, Swails batted .420, one of only seven modern-day players to reach the coveted .400 mark and the last to do so. At the end of his career, he was first on the school charts in runs scored (159), walks (127) and assists (445), third in games played (176), at-bats (579), hits (195), total bases (265) and doubles (53), and fifth in stolen bases (58).

Varn, a 6-10 center on the basketball team in the early 1950s, enters the Hall of Fame in the honorary category. Although he once scored a school record 51 points in a single game (Jan. 31, 1953, vs. Piedmont College), he has established annual sporting clay tournaments at his Broxton Bridge Plantation in his hometown of Earhardt, SC, with the proceeds going to The Citadel Brigadier Foundation. Over the years, thousands of dollars from these tournaments have gone directly for athletics grants-in-aid.

The Citadel Athletic Hall of Fame will have its 26th induction ceremony on the morning of Homecoming Saturday, Nov. 1, in McAlister Field House. The five inductees will also be reintroduced at halfti