Spartan All-American Paul Terek is among the 2024 inductees of the Michigan State Athletics Hall of Fame.
Terek joins Jessica (Beech) Bograkos (softball), Anson Carter (ice hockey), Darqueze Dennard (football), Beth (Rohl) Saylors (women’s track & field) and Laura (Kueny) Smith, along with the 1965-1966 football teams, who become the first teams inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Celebration will take place on Friday, Sept. 13. There will also be a special recognition of the 2024 MSU Athletics Hall of Fame Class during the Michigan State-Prairie View A&M football game at Spartan Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 14.
The MSU Athletics Hall of Fame, located in the Clara Bell Smith Student-Athlete Academic Center, opened on Oct. 1, 1999, and displays plaques of the 180 previous inductees. The charter class of 30 former Spartan student-athletes, coaches and administrators was inducted in 1992.
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As the world enjoyed the Paris Olympics this summer, former Olympian and Big Ten Champion Paul Terek looks forward to his induction to the Michigan State Athletics Hall of Fame. He joins Beth (Rohl) Saylors as one of two track & field athletes to be inducted this year.
The former Spartan pole vaulter and multi-event athlete was at a loss of words when first told about being told by Vice President and Director of Athletics Alan Haller that he was being inducted into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame.
“I felt a big sense of accomplishment,” Terek said. “I’ve always wanted to be in the Michigan State Athletics Hall of Fame, and for me, it was such an honor. I think the best word to describe it for me, is humbling.”
Terek, who represented the U.S. in the 2004 Athens Olympics, is acutely aware of the Spartan track & field legends that he is joining in the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame, including fellow Olympians Savatheda Fynes Coke and Judi Brown. He saw the banners for people like Herb Washington and Ken Popejoy hanging in Jenison Field House during his time as a student-athlete from 1998-2002.
“I remember being there as a freshman and walking through Jenison Field House, and they had all the pictures of all the All-Americans and school record holders,” Terek said. “When you looked at the history…
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