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Eight to be Inducted into the Lindsey Athletics Hall of Fame Eight former Blue Raider student-athletes are set to be inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame at 10amCT on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at the Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center on the A.P. White Campus. The eight student-athletes are part of two classes -- the Class of 2024 and the Class of 2025. It will be the 23rd and 24th classes of the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame. Jared Barnes, Trent Coffee, Andre Cooper, and Jamaine Gordon make up the Class of 2024, while Jill Lirbank-Almbaek Fitzgerald, Kirsty Marr Chapman, Brian Ombiji, and Ashley Rainey comprise the Class of 2025. Following the ceremony, the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame will be home to 70 student-athletes, coaches, administrators, and friends of the college. Lirbank Almbaek-Fitzgerald (2003-06) and Marr Chapman (2001, 2004) were members of the Lindsey Wilson women's soccer program, while Cooper (2000-03) and Ombiji (2002-05) patrolled the pitch for the men's soccer team. Barnes was part of the Blue Raider men's basketball program from 2001-2005, and Coffee was a Lindsey Wilson baseball team member from 1998-2001. Gordon was a member of the men's track & field from 2002-07 and later coached the team and Rainey donned the blue and white for the women's basketball team from 2010-13. "Being inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Hall of Fame is the highest honor we can bestow upon our student-athletes," said Lindsey Wilson Athletics Director Willis Pooler. "These two hall-of-fame classes are filled with national and conference champions and all-American and all-conference performers. They provided a standard of excellence that our current student-athletes should always strive to meet. "I'm excited to welcome Jared, Trent, Andre, Jamaine, Jill, Kirsty, Brian, and Ashley into our hall of fame," Pooler added. "They were outstanding student-athletes who represented their teams and Lindsey Wilson so well in and out of competition." Class of 2024 Jared Barnes (2001-05) ranks in the program's top 10 in points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, and games played. He was All Mid-South Conference Honorable Mention twice while helping the Blue Raiders to a 104-35 record in his four seasons. Barnes was integral to back-to-back 30-win seasons, including helping the Blue Raiders win the Mid-South Conference Tournament title and reach the NAIA National Quarterfinals during the 2003-04 season. Lindsey Wilson finished that season with 33 wins -- the most in program history. In 2004-05, Lindsey Wilson went 30-4 en route to winning the MSC regular season and tournament championships. Barnes concluded his career with 1,135 points and 554 rebounds. He ranks third on the Blue Raiders' all-time rebound list. Barnes' 198 career steals are fourth-best in the program's history, while his 308 assists rank seventh. Barnes will be the 20th men's basketball student-athlete or coach inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame. Trent Coffee (1998-2001) was one of the most productive hitters in Lindsey Wilson's baseball history. He ranks in the program's top 10 in hits, runs, runs batted in (RBIs), doubles, triples, home runs, and on-base percentage. Coffee ranks second in the program's history in both hits (263) and triples (9) and in the top five in runs (190), RBIs (164), batting average (.399), and games (189). Coffee earned all-conference honors all four seasons as a Blue Raider. He earned All Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors in 1998, 1999, and 2000 and All Mid-South Conference honors in 2001. He hit over .400 twice in his career -- .450 during the 1999 season and .431 in 2000. Coffee helped lead the Blue Raiders to a 38-15 record in 2000, including winning the program's first-ever regional title. In addition to winning the regional championship, Coffee helped Lindsey Wilson to a pair of KIAC regular season and tournament championships and a 125-80 overall record. Coffee will be the eighth baseball student-athlete or coach inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame. Andre Cooper (2000-03) earned NAIA All-American honors in 2002 and honorable mention all-American honors in 2003. He is one of three Lindsey Wilson men's soccer student-athletes in the program's storied history to earn NAIA All-National Tournament Team honors three times. Cooper scored six goals and recorded 10 assists in his 95-game career. He helped the Blue Raiders win the 2000 and 2001 NAIA National Championship. In addition to his all-American accolades, Cooper earned NAIA All-Region XI honors twice and All Mid-South Conference honors three times. He also earned NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors twice and Academic All MSC three times. He helped the Blue Raiders to an 84-12-2 record during his four years, including winning three Mid-South Conference regular-season titles and four conference tournament championships. Cooper will be the ninth men's soccer student-athlete or coach inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame. Jamaine Gordon (2002-07, student-athlete - 2013-18, coach) won an individual national championship as a student-athlete and coached the Blue Raider track & field teams to a combined 11 Mid-South Conference championships. He captured the 2005 NAIA triple jump national championship with a leap of 51 feet and seven inches -- two feet beyond his nearest competitor. He is one of seven Lindsey Wilson men's track & field student-athletes to win an individual national title. Gordon earned NAIA All-American honors eight times -- three in the long jump and five in the triple jump during the indoor and outdoor national championships. He also earned All Mid-South Conference honors three times during his career. Gordon coached five seasons at Lindsey Wilson. He guided the Blue Raider men to one indoor and four outdoor Mid-South Conference titles while leading the women to two indoor and four outdoor MSC championships. His peers selected him as Mid-South Conference Coach of the Year seven times. Gordon will be the first track & field student-athlete or coach inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame. Class of 2025 Jill Lirbank Almbaek-Fitzgerald (2003-06) earned NAIA All-American honors and was named the Mid-South Conference Women's Soccer Player of the Year in 2004. That season, Lirbank Almbaek scored 29 goals and recorded 10 assists while helping the Blue Raiders to the NAIA National Championship. During her time at Lindsey Wilson, the Blue Raiders won two national titles (2004 and 2006) and four Mid-South Conference regular season and tournament championships. She helped the Blue Raiders to an 84-9-7 record during her four years. Lirbank Almbaek earned all-region honors once and was a three-time All Mid-South Conference performer. She also earned NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors once and Academic All Mid-South Conference honors three times. Lirbank Almbaek concluded her career ranked in the program's top 10 in goals (69), assists (26), points (164), game-winning goals (9), and game-winning assists (7). Lirbank Almbaek will be the fifth women's soccer student-athlete or coach inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame. Kirsty Marr Chapman (2001, 2004) earned NAIA All-American honors during her freshman season and returned to Lindsey Wilson to help the Blue Raiders capture the 2004 NAIA National Championship. In just two seasons at Lindsey Wilson, Marr ranks in the program's top 10 in goals and game-winning goals. She scored 31 goals in 2001 -- the second most in a single season in the program's history. Her 42 career goals rank seventh on the Lindsey Wilson women's soccer all-time scoring list. Following her freshman year, Marr transferred to NCAA Division I Memphis (Tenn.) only to return and help Lindsey Wilson to a 19-0-6 record and the national title in 2004. Marr helped the Blue Raiders to a 39-4-8 record in her two seasons while earning all-region and all-conference honors twice. She also earned NAIA All-National Tournament Team honors in 2001. Marr will be the sixth women's soccer student-athlete or coach inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame. Brian Ombiji (2002-05) earned NAIA All-American honors in 2004 and 2005 and was named the NAIA National Tournament's Most Valuable Player during the Blue Raiders' 2005 national championship run. In addition to earning all-American honors, Ombiji was named the Mid-South Conference and NAIA Region XI Men's Soccer Player of the Year in 2004. He was named all-region twice and all-conference three times. Ombiji scored 35 goals and recorded 47 assists in this four-year career. Sixteen of those 47 assists were on game-winning goals -- the most in program history. He ranks in the program's top 10 in assists, points (117), and games (95). Ombiji helped the Blue Raiders to an 83-9-4 record during his four years, including winning four Mid-South Conference regular-season titles and tournament championships. Ombiji will be the 10th men's soccer student-athlete or coach inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame. Ashley Rainey (2010-13) earned NAIA All-American honors three times and was the Mid-South Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year during the 2012-13 season. Rainey averaged 21.6 points and 11.8 rebounds over her 85-game career. She is one of only two women's basketball student-athletes in the program's history to finish her career with at least 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. She ranks in the program's top 10 in scoring average, points (1,834), rebounds (1,005), blocks (97), and field-goal percentage (65.5) -- which is the best in Lindsey Wilson women's basketball history. Rainey earned NAIA National Tournament Team honors in 2010-11, averaging 25 points and 14 rebounds while shooting 67 percent from the field in her two games. She was voted by the conference coaches three times as an All Mid-South Conference First Team selection. Rainey will be the ninth women's basketball student-athlete or coach inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame. The Lindsey Wilson Athletics Hall of Fame was established during the 2000-01 academic year to recognize and honor individuals whose participation and achievements helped to create the winning tradition at Lindsey Wilson. The 2024 and 2025 classes will be inducted at 10amCT on Saturday, September 13, at the Cranmer Dining & Conference Center. The event is open to the public. Live coverage of the ceremony will be provided by the Lindsey Wilson Sports Network. This story was posted on 2025-09-09 15:55:00
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