SAN ANTONIO — The 2026 UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Class was unveiled in August and will be inducted during Homecoming Weekend Friday-Saturday, Nov. 13-14.
The class features Leonard Byrd (men’s track & field), Ryanne DuPree (women’s track & field), Tamara Luckemeyer (volleyball), Teresa Neighbors (women’s track & field) and Jessica Rogers (softball).
The 2026 UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held Friday, Nov. 13, 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 Saturday, and the group will be recognized during the football game against North Texas that day at the Alamodome.
Ryanne DuPree (Women’s Track & Field • 2004-07)
Ryanne DuPree made her mark at UTSA in the multi-events and hurdles from 2004 to 2007. The San Antonio East Central High School graduate earned a total of four All-America certificates and nine conference gold medals during her storied career.
DuPree finished fourth in the pentathlon at the 2006 NCAA Indoor Championship and notched three top-eight national finishes in the heptathlon. She was sixth with 5,773 points at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championship, seventh in 2004 and eighth in 2005.
A member of the Southland Conference Hall of Honor, she struck gold nine times at league meets, winning the 100-meter hurdles three times, the heptathlon and pentathlon twice apiece, and the long jump and 4x100-meter relay once each. DuPree swept the Southland Conference Outdoor Athlete of the Year, Outstanding Track Performer and High Point Scorer titles in both 2005 and 2007 and she was the 2006 Southland Conference Indoor Athlete of the Year and High Point Scorer.
She qualified for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, and finished 10th in the heptathlon with 5,697 points.
UTSA Athletics will profile each of the five members of the 2026 UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Class leading up to the Induction Ceremony.
The 2026 Class will join 15 other inductees in the UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame. 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). The 2025 class featured Fabiola Arriaga (women’s golf), Rudy Davalos (athletics director), Amanda Michalsky (softball) and Mark Schramek (baseball).
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