HAMMOND, La. – Five former Southeastern Louisiana University student-athletes will comprise the 2024 Southeastern Athletics Hall of Fame Class, which was announced Thursday.
 
The 2024 class will include Amir Abdur-Rahim (men's basketball), Courtney Donald Sweeney (volleyball), Chris Laiche (baseball), Kevin Millican (baseball) and Alex Young (track and field).
 
The incoming class will be inducted at the Southeastern Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet presented by North Oaks Health System, scheduled for Sept. 13 at the War Memorial Student Union Ballroom. The SLU football team will open its 2024 home schedule Sept. 14, hosting Eastern Washington at Strawberry Stadium. The newest inductees and all current Hall of Famers in attendance will be recognized at halftime of the SLU-EWU game.
 
Abdur-Rahim is the 18^th men's basketball inductee into the Hall of Fame. A three-time All-Southland Conference guard from 2001-04, the Marietta, Georgia native ranks among the school's career leaders in points (1,284), three-point field goals made (194) and steals (120). The 2003-04 Southeastern Male Athlete of the Year led the Lions to their first SLC regular season championship as a senior.
 
Since his playing career ended, Abdur-Rahim has developed into one of the nation's fastest rising coaches. After assistant coaching stints at Murray State, Georgia Tech, College of Charleston, Texas A&M and Georgia, Abdur-Rahim earned his first head coaching job at Kennesaw State.
 
The Owls steadily improved under Abdur-Rahim's tutelage, culminating in winning the ASUN Conference championship and advancing to the NCAA Tournament. He just finished his first season at South Florida, earning AAC Coach of the Year honors after leading the Bulls to the conference regular season championship.
 











Donald Sweeney, who competed under her maiden name from 2009-12, is the sixth volleyball student-athlete to be named to the SLU Athletics Hall of Fame. The Tomball, Texas native joins former Lady Lions Anne Bauer Peytavin, Sarah Gascon, Denise Kubena Wyninger, Christie Mikolajchak-Cripps and Darci Starr.
 
Donald Sweeney was the first Lady Lion to be named Louisiana Player of the Year as a senior, setting a new single-season school record with a .330 attack percentage on the way to earning first team All-SLC and SLU Female Athlete of the Year accolades. The four-year letterwinner finished among the program's career leaders with 1,044 kills, a .245 attack percentage, 275 blocks, 1,216 points, 419 sets played and 124 matches played.
 




















The induction of Laiche and Millican, both members of Southeastern's 1990 All-Decade Team, will run the number of baseball members in the SLU Athletics Hall of Fame to 27. Laiche, a New Orleans native, is second on the program's single-season list with 11 wins for the 1994 TAAC Champions and NCAA Regional participants.
 
That same season, he set single-season school standards that still stand for innings pitched (130.1) and games started (17). Laiche currently ranks second in program history with 24 career wins as a Lion.
 




















His teammate on the historic 1994 squad was Millican, who was a two-time All-TAAC performer in his two seasons at SLU. His senior season totals of 64 games played (4^th), 85 base hits (5^th), 24 doubles (2^nd). 17 home runs (5^th) and 63 RBI (8^th) all still rank on the program's single-season top 10 list. Millican was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 13^th round of the 1994 Major League Baseball draft.
 
The Jennings, Louisiana native sits among the SLU career leaders for batting average (.347, 6^th) and home runs (26, 9^th). Millican passed away in 2021 and was the Jefferson Davis Parish District Attorney at the time of his death.
 


















Young will be the 23^rd track and field student-athlete to enter the Southeastern Athletics Hall of Fame and is arguably the most accomplished SLU student-athlete of the 21^st century. During his time in Hammond from 2015-17, the Nashville, Tennessee native excelled in all facets of the student-athlete experience.
 
At the 2016 NCAA Indoor National Championships, he won the school's first and only Division I individual national championship in the weight throw. One of three four-time All-Americans in school history, Young holds the top four performances in the weight throw and the top five showings in the hammer throw in Southland Conference history. He was named SLC and Louisiana Athlete of the Year as a senior and is a two-time SLU Male Athlete of the Year.
 
The 2015 Louisiana and Southland Conference Newcomer of the Year was also a three-time All-Louisiana selection. Young also excelled in the classroom and was twice named an Academic All-America and the Southland Track Student-Athlete of the Year. Following his collegiate career, he has won four USATF championships and participated in the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
 
The 2024 induction class will bring the total number of Southeastern Athletics Hall of Fame members to 167. Student-athletes must be at least seven years removed from their final season to be eligible for inclusion in the Southeastern Athletics Hall of Fame. Nominations can be sent to Associate Athletic Director for Communications Kemmler Chapple by e-mail (Kemmler.chapple@southeastern.edu) or by mail (SLU 10309, Hammond, LA 70402).
 

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