SAN ANTONIO — The 2025 UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Class will be inducted on Homecoming Weekend on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 10-11.
The third class features Fabiola Arriaga (women’s golf), Rudy Davalos (athletics director), Amanda Michalsky (softball) and Mark Schramek (baseball).
The 2025 UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held on Friday, Oct. 10, at Pedrotti’s Ranch. Cocktail hour will begin at 6 p.m. followed by the ceremony at 7 p.m. Tables and individual seats for the event are on sale now by visiting engage.utsa.edu.
The Hall of Fame plaques will be revealed on Saturday morning and the group will be recognized during the football game against Rice, which is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Alamodome.
The 2025 Class will join 11 other inductees in the UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame presented by BMW. 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).
UTSA Athletics will profile each of the four members of the 2025 Class leading up to the Induction Ceremony.
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.
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