FARMVILLE, Va. – A strong six-member class headlines the 2025 class for the Longwood Athletics Hall of Fame.
 
Scott Abell (baseball), Megan Baltzell (softball), Colin Ducharme (men's basketball), Nikki Hall-Atkinson (women's basketball), Adam Webb (men's golf) and the 1975 field hockey team were all elected into the hall of fame.
 
"Congratulations to all of our newly inducted hall of fame members of the class of 2025!" said Longwood Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics Tim Hall. "This class represents the best of Longwood, both in its rich history and in athletic excellence. We are proud to celebrate their accomplishments and honor their legacy as new minted Hall of Famers!"
 
Abell, a 1992 graduate, played baseball for four seasons at Longwood and was instrumental in Longwood's run to the Division II World Series in 1991, and he helped lead the team to the NCAA Division II tournament in 1992.
 
A catcher, Abell batted .335 with 31 home runs while helping Longwood go 117-41, one of the best four-year stretches in team history. In addition, he helped the team go 73-17 in his final two years. He was drafted by the Kansas City Royals following his senior year, but injuries curtailed his baseball career.
 
Instead, Abell turned to coaching football, and he has been wildly successful at every stop. He is entering his first season at Rice after leading Davidson to 47 wins in seven seasons, where he exited as the winningest coach in team history. He led Davidson to the FCS playoffs three times. Prior to Davidson, he was the three-time Old Dominion Athletic Conference Coach of the Year three times while winning the ODAC three times in six years at Washington & Lee.
 
Baltzell's name is synonymous with excellence in the Longwood softball program, and the two-time Big South Player of the Year is a member of the Big South All-Decade Team. She was an NFCA Second Team All-American in 2013, and her named is littered throughout the Longwood softball record books. She was a three-time All-Big South First Team selection in her three years in the Big South, as well. She was also recently named to D1Softball.com's All-Quarter Century Team in the non-Power 4 power hitter category.
 
A prodigious power hitter, Baltzell's 76 home runs are the most in program history, and she also sits first in hits, RBIs, runs scored, doubles, walks, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. She also holds the top- two spots for home runs in a season (30 in 2013, 27 in 2015), RBIs (78 in 2013, 72 in 2015), and walks (66 in 2015, 44 in 2014).
 
Baltzell helped the Lancers win their first two Big South titles, in 2013 and 2015, and she earned NFCA All-Region honors three times (first team in 2013, second team in 2014 and 2015).
 
For men's basketball, Ducharme was tremendous in his lone season at Longwood. He was the NABC Division II National Player of the Year in 2001 and an NABC First Team All-American. He holds a variety of single-season records for the team and helped lead the way to the NCAA Division II Tournament, where the team advanced to the round of 32.
 
Ducharme still holds the single-season records for rebounds (490), free throws made (204) and attempted (259), and blocks (130). He averaged 19.6 points and 15.8 rebounds per game that season, with his 608 points ranking fourth in a single season in team history.
 
He was the CVAC Athlete of the Year as well, and his jersey was retired and hangs in the rafters. He still is active in the Longwood community and serves on the Finance Committee of the Longwood University Foundation Board of Directors.
 
Hall-Atkinson played for four seasons and has her jersey number retired, as well. She led Longwood to a pair of CVAC titles and three trips to the Division II NCAA tournament. She also earned All-America honorable mention twice.
 
As a senior, she was the CVAC Player of the Year in 1997, and she was named to the CVAC All-Time Team.
 
A jack-of-all-trades, she ranks fifth all-time in points (1,499), and she still holds the career steals record (289). She also ranks second in career assists (506), is tied for ninth in free throws made (279) and 10th in three-point field goals made (208).
 
In addition, she joined the Lancer coaching staff in the early 2000s, working with legendary head coach, and fellow Hall of Famer, Shirley Duncan.
 
Webb was outstanding for the Lancer men's golf program, helping the team qualify for the 2007 NCAA Regional, the first Lancer program to advance to the postseason at the Division I level.
 
Webb was named the D-I Independent Newcomer of the Year in 2006-07, and he earned all-region and all-state honors, and he also earned a spot on the Division I All-Independent Team.
 
Upon graduation, he broke the school's career scoring-average record, logging a 74.17 through 107 rounds, although the record has since been broken. He still leads the program in top five and top 10 finishes in a career.
 
The 1975 field hockey team went down as one of the best field hockey teams in the nation that year, finishing the season ranked sixth in the nation.
 
The Lancers went 16-5-4, the most wins in a season in program history still, and the Lancers earned a spot in the AIAW-USFHA National Field Hockey Championship, where they placed sixth. The team beat San Jose State and Wooster in the postseason run.
 
That team scored 68 goals, which is still the school record, while also piling up 10 shutouts. Dr. Carolyn Hodges Crosby, a 2022 selection for the hall of fame, was at the helm to guide the team to national recognition.
 
The inductees will be honored in a ceremony, with the details to be announced at a later date.
 
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