SAN ANTONIO — The UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame presented by BMW inducted its 2025 Class in a ceremony on Friday night at Pedrotti’s Ranch.
This year’s class features Fabiola Arriaga (women’s golf), Rudy Davalos (athletics director), Amanda Michalsky (softball) and Mark Schramek (baseball).
The Hall of Fame plaques will be revealed on Saturday morning and the group will be recognized during the Homecoming game against Rice, which is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Alamodome.
This is the third year of the UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame, as the 2025 Class joins 11 previous inductees.
The inaugural class of McKenzie Adams (volleyball, women’s basketball), Devin Brown (men’s basketball), Marcus Davenport (football) and Tameka Roberts (track & field, women’s basketball), as well as former head football coach Larry Coker and former athletics director Lynn Hickey, was inducted in 2023.
The 2024 class included Derrick Gervin (men’s basketball), Monica Gibbs (women’s basketball), Michael Rockett (baseball), Starlite Williams (women’s basketball, track & field) and Teddy Williams (men’s track & field).
Fabiola Arriaga (Women’s Golf • 2010-14)
The first UTSA women’s golfer to be named first-team all-conference four times, Fabiola Arriaga left her mark on a young program and helped elevate it to the next level. A native of Torreón, Mexico, she earned all-conference honors in three different leagues, the Southland Conference, the Western Athletic Conference and Conference USA.
Arriaga advanced to the NCAA postseason in each of her four seasons, including as an individual in 2014 at the West Regional in Cle Elum, Washington, the first UTSA women’s golfer to accomplish that feat.
She won three tournaments during her UTSA career with her last collegiate victory at the 2014 Conference USA Championship after she fired a 9-under-par 207 (68-69-70). The year prior, she was the Southland Conference Runner-Up to help lead UTSA to the program’s first conference crown. She was named the 2012 Southland Conference Golfer of the Year, as the Roadrunners repeated as league champions that season. She finished her career with a 74.97 scoring average and 26 par-or-better rounds.
Rudy Davalos (Athletics Director • 1976-85)
UTSA’s first athletics director, Rudy Davalos was hired in 1976 to lead the department into its first NCAA Division I competition five years later. The San Antonio native helped spearhead the campus-wide vote for a mascot and nickname, and he helped select uniform colors and school songs.
He guided UTSA Athletics into its first year of NCAA competition as a Division I Independent in 1981-82, starting with four sports and eventually growing the department to nine men’s and six women’s sports during his tenure. He also was one of the founders of the Oil Country Athletic Conference, in which UTSA’s women’s teams competed for two seasons. He oversaw UTSA Athletics until his departure in 1985, going on to serve in the same role at Houston and New Mexico before his retirement from intercollegiate athletics.
A 2002 San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame inductee and a member of the Texas State Athletics Hall of Honor, National Hispanic Hall of Honor and San Antonio ISD Hall of Fame, he received the Lamar Hunt Lifetime Achievement from the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.
A former star basketball player at Edison High School, he played collegiately at Wharton Junior College and Texas State (then Southwest Texas State), where he helped the Bobcats win the 1960 NAIA National Championship. He went on to become an assistant coach at Georgetown College, Kentucky and Auburn before taking over the reins at University of the South. Prior to being hired at UTSA, Davalos was an assistant coach and director of player personnel for the San Antonio Spurs.
Amanda Michalsky (Softball • 1997-2000)
The first UTSA student-athlete in any sport to have a jersey retired, Amanda Michalsky was a star outfielder for the softball program from 1997 to 2000.
Her 1999 campaign was one of the most historic seasons by any Roadrunner. She led the NCAA with both a .541 batting average and a 1.109 slugging percentage and was named second-team All-America, first-team all-region, Southland Conference Player and Hitter of the Year and first-team all-conference.
The following year, she repeated as first-team all-league and garnered second-team all-region accolades.
Following her collegiate career, Amanda was picked 18th overall by the Ohio Pride in the 2000 Women’s Pro Softball League Draft. A member of the Southland Conference 50th Anniversary All-Time Softball Roster, she still holds school records for career batting average and doubles, as well as single-season standards for batting average, slugging percentage, hits, doubles, extra-base hits and runs scored, all from her 1999 campaign.
Mark Schramek (Baseball • 1999-2002)
The UTSA baseball program’s first-ever All-American and Major League Baseball First Round draft pick, Mark Schramek was a standout for the Roadrunners from 1999 to 2002.
His 2002 season went down in the history books as one of the most productive in school history. He batted a school-record .416 and registered a .502 on-base percentage en route to being named the Southland Conference Most Valuable Player, Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and Hitter of the Year in 2002. He also earned third-team All-America accolades by Collegiate Baseball News and all-region honors.
A two-time all-league performer at third base, the San Antonio Madison High School product was tabbed the Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 2001. He was selected by the Cincinnati Reds with the 40th overall pick of the 2002 MLB Draft and went on to play in nearly 400 professional games over four seasons.
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