HAMMOND, La. – Southeastern Louisiana University Athletics announced its 2025 Hall of Fame class Thursday.
 
The class is comprised of Mack Boatner (football), Courtney Donald Sweeney (volleyball), Cqulin Hubert (football), Ed Nodhturft (baseball), Hope Sabadash (soccer) and Sarah Williams (women's basketball).
 
In addition to the Hall of Fame class, the 1975 baseball team that advanced to the College World Series will also be recognized, along with the 2024-25 SLU Male and Female Athletes of the Year at this year's North Oaks Health System Southeastern Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet, which is set for Sept. 12 in the War Memorial Student Union Ballroom. The class will also be recognized at halftime of the Southeastern football team's Sept. 13 home opener versus Mississippi Valley State.
 
Boatner and Hubert run the number of football inductees to 70. Boatner starred for the Lions from 1978-81, leading the team in rushing each of his final three seasons and earning team Most Valuable Player honors in 1979 and 1980. He ranks among the school's career leaders with 2,776 rushing yards, 25 rushing touchdowns and 11 100-yard rushing games.
 
His 275 rushing yards versus Delta State in 1980 is still the program's single-game standard. Following his SLU career, he was drafted in the ninth round of the 1982 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins and spent four years in the USFL and NFL.
 
Hubert was a standout linebacker for the Lions in 2012 and 2013. In his final season, he was named All-American by the American Football Coaches Association, The Sports Network and College Sports Journal, while helping SLU to its first-ever Southland championship and NCAA FCS playoff appearance.
 
The 2013 Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Year was named first team All-SLC and All-Louisiana after posting 90 tackles, 11.0 tackles for loss, four sacks, one interception, three passes defended and two blocks.
 
Donald Sweeney, who competed under her maiden name from 2009-12, was elected last year and chose to put off her induction to 2025. She 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.
 
Nodhturft, who played for the Lions in 1996 and 1997, will be the 28^th Southeastern baseball player inducted into the SLU Athletics Hall of Fame. A member of Southeastern's All-Decade Team for the 1990's, he ranks among the school career leaders with a .356 batting average and 31 home runs.
 
An ABCA All-Region, first team All-TAAC and first team All-Louisiana selection in 1997, Nodhturft's final-season totals of a .376 batting average, 18 home runs and 67 RBI all are among the highest single-season totals in program history.
 
Sabadash is the 10^th women's soccer student-athlete to earn a spot in the SLU Athletics Hall of Fame and the first goalkeeper inducted since Allison Holladay (2004). The only All-American in program history, she finished as the school's career leader with 401 saves and is second in program history with 29.0 career shutouts.
 
Sabadash was the goalkeeper for the 2013 and 2015 Southland Conference Tournament champions, earning SLC Tournament MVP honors both seasons after leading the Lady Lions to NCAA Tournament appearances. She earned Louisiana Player of the Year honors in 2015 and SLC Freshman of the Year honors in 2013 in addition to being selected the 2013-14 Southeastern Female Athlete of the Year.
 
Williams will be the eighth women's basketball inductee and joins fellow 1976-77 AIAW national championship teammates Queen Brumfield Nard, Pam Cook Forrest and Monica Smith Harrison in the SLU Athletics Hall of Fame. A two-time All-Louisiana selection, Williams participated in the 1976-77 All-American Game along with Brumfield Nard and Cook Forrest in Washington, D.C.
 
Her career totals of 1,241 points, 771 rebounds, 21.4 points per game, 504 field goals made and a 56.8 field goal percentage are all among the best-ever by a Lady Lion. Williams still holds the program's career record for rebounding average (13.0 rpg), single-season record for rebounding average (13.6 rpg, 1976-77) and single-game record for rebounds (27, vs. Southern, 1976-77).
 
The 2025 induction class will bring the total number of Southeastern Athletics Hall of Fame members to 172. 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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