DAVIS, Calif. – UC Davis athletics is proud to announce the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2026, consisting of six Aggie greats and a national championship team. This year's Hall of Fame inductees represent excellence and lasting impact across UC Davis Athletics.
 
In addition to the Hall of Fame class, UC Davis Athletics will also honor recipients of the Legacy Award and the Special Recognition Award, including a world class sailor and a football tee fetching canine. These awards recognize extraordinary contributions to Aggie Athletics beyond traditional Hall of Fame induction.
 
This year's class adds Erinn Beattie (2015-2019; Track and Field), Chelsea Bigelow (2016-2019; Field Hockey), Keelan Doss (2014-2018; Football), Megan Heneghan (2010-2014; Women's Tennis), G.P. Muhammad (1994-1998; Football) and Sandy Simpson (Non-Participant; 1977-1981, 1996-2011; Women's Basketball) and the 1990 National Championships winning women's tennis team.
 
While Marci Porter Lucier (Legacy Award; 1985-1990; Women's Basketball; Rowing; Sailing), Pint (Special Recognition Award; 2012-2022) round out the group set to be inducted, celebrated and honored this year.
 
The class is full of historical talent and impact, including the first member of UC Davis field hockey to enter the hall, a pair of impactful football players from different decades, one of the most important figures in women's basketball history an All-American track star and a national championship winning squad.
 
"This year's Hall of Fame class is another example of Aggie Pride—marked by individual excellence, team achievement, and lasting impact," said Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca. "It's an exceptional group of Aggies entering into the Hall of Fame with standout individuals like Erinn Beattie, Chelsea Bigelow, Keelan Doss, Megan Heneghan, G.P. Muhammad, Sandy Simpson, along with another national championship winning team. Together, they represent the very best of what it means to be an Aggie.  We are also proud to honor Dr. Danika Bannasch and Pint for their special connections with our athletic department, as well as Marci Porter Lucier for her outstanding achievements in rowing and sailing, which have brought great honor and prestige to UC Davis."
 
UC Davis will honor the incoming group over football's homecoming weekend when the Aggies host Eastern Washington on Oct. 3.
 
Erinn Beattie – Track and Field (2015-2019)
A five-time All-American, Erinn Beattie can lay claim as one of the most decorated multi-event Aggies in track and field over a long history and if you crack open the Aggie record books you will still see Beattie sprinkled through as she still owns four school records and sits top 10 in seven other events.
 
Beattie still owns the Aggie indoor records for the high jump (1.84m) and the Pentathlon (4,293) and she holds the outdoor records for the high jump (1.85m) and the Heptathlon (5,924). And in 2017 she won the Big West championship in the outdoor high jump and in 2019 she brought home the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Pentathlon title.
 
Three times across her career Beattie earned first team All-American honors, earning 2019 first team honors in both the indoor and outdoor multi-events and in 2018 she finished tied for second in the nation in the high jump. It was the second of three All-American honors in the high jump Beattie has earned with her taking back to Davis second-team honors in 2019 and an honorable mention in 2017.
 
Chelsea Bigelow – Field Hockey (2016-2019)
For four seasons Chelsea Bigelow owned the cage for UC Davis, ending her time as the most decorated goalkeeper in program history both in the record books and amongst her peers nationally. Still the owner of six program records, Bigelow's name still features prominently in the Aggie record book and in 2019 she earned National Field Hockey Coaches Association First Team All-Region honors, becoming the highest decorated Aggie in history.
 
During the 2019 season her .806 save percentage rated as the third-best in the country and she finished nationally among the top 20 in both goals against average and saves per game. And she led the American East in save percentage, shutouts and saves per game, which was impressive because the Aggies shared a conference with Stanford and their future Team USA goalkeeper Kelsey Bing, who Bigelow statistically outperformed during her senior season.
 
In three years as the starter, Bigelow recorded over 100 saves in each season and twice she was named to the NFHCA Academic squad in 2018 and 2016 to go along with her regional honors, solidifying her place as one of the best to ever take the field for the Aggies.
 
Keelan Doss – Football (2014-2018)
Ask someone who watched Aggie football in the past 20 years, and they will talk to you about Keelan Doss and watching him streak down the sideline as he ran under a deep ball on his way to another score. Over his time as an Aggie, Doss was named a 13-time first team All-American, the most historically by an Aggie student-athlete across all sports and he still owns eight program records, one Big Sky record and he still sits top 10 in two national categories.
 
Doss finished his career with 4,069 career receiving yards, the most in program history and it makes him one of only 21 receivers all-time to finish with at least 4,000 career receiving yards in the history of the Football Championship Subdivision. He twice was named a Walter Payton Award Finalist (2017, 2018) and he was named the 2017 Big Sky Player of the Year following one of his best seasons where his 10.5 receptions per game is still the sixth-best season in FCS history.
 
He capped off his career by snagging 118 receptions and finishing with 1,499 receiving yards during a 2018 season that still rates as the best an Aggie receiver has ever had in program history. Doss would go on to spend six years in the National Football League, spending time with the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders, Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons, New York Jets, New York Giants and Los Angeles Chargers.
 
Megan Heneghan – Women's Tennis (2010-2014)
For four years Megan Heneghan sat at the top of the UC Davis singles lineup, claiming the No. 1 singles spot during her time at Davis winning 41 matches at No. 1 singles to give her 48 career singles wins. Her undeniable skills on the court was recognized entering the 2013-14 season when she became the first Aggie to ever earn a national Intercollegiate Tennis Association ranking when she was ranked No. 90 in singles.
 
Heneghan was a four-time first team Big West All-Conference honoree, to go along with being a two-time ITA Scholar Athlete and in 2014 she was named the Big West Female Scholar Athlete of the Year. She opened her career being named the Big West Freshman of the Year and ended it setting a record for consecutive doubles wins, winning 16-straight matches with her teammate Melissa Kobayakawa to close out her senior season.
 
Overall, in her career, Heneghan won 48 single matches and 48 doubles matches for a combined total of 96 wins during her time as an Aggie.
 
G.P. Muhammad – Football (1994-1998)
Quietly, or maybe loudly depending on which defender you asked, G.P. Muhammad ran over defenders for four seasons as an Aggie building out one of the best careers for a running back in the long history of Aggie football. For over 20 years Muhammad owned just about every rushing and all-purpose record in the books, and despite not gaining national honors (the Aggies were not in a conference while Muhammad was at Davis) Muhammad made his impact felt during his time in the backfield.
 
Muhammad finished his career as the program leader in rushing attempts (685), rushing yards (3,589) and all-purpose yards (4,629) and he held those records for over 20 years before a pair of future Aggie Hall of Famers surpassed him. To this day, Muhammad's five touchdowns scored in one game is still tied for a single game record and his 11 receptions against New Haven in a 1997 playoff game still sits tied for the most receptions in a postseason game.
 
A multi-time team captain, Muhammad was a leader on and off the field for the Aggies and to this day his impact is still felt as his name continues to resonate throughout the Aggie football offices and locker room. 
 
Sandy Simpson – Non-Participant/Women's Basketball (1977-1981; 1990-2017)
From the time the Aggies first took the court, Sandy Simpson was there helping build and then grow the UC Davis women's basketball program putting them on the national stage while winning 251 games, the second-most in program history. Simpson served as an assistant coach in several stints first from 1977-81, before returning in 1990 to hold that same title until 1996. He then held the interim head coaching job for the 1996-97 and 1998-99 seasons, returning to his role as assistant coach for the 1997-98 season when Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Famer Jorja Hoehn returned.
 
Starting in 1999 he took the helm for good, and his leadership would see the Aggies go on deep NCAA Tournament runs, win a Big West championship and secure a firm place near the top of both the conference and national landscape. While leading the Aggies he oversaw a third-place finish in the 1997 NCAA Division II Championships, back-to-back NCAA Division II West Regional final berths and he won a pair of Coach of the Year honors. When the Aggies made the move to Division I, it did not take long for Simpson to lead the Aggies back to the top, winning the 2010 Big West Championship for the program's first NCAA Division I National Tournament berth and two NIT berths in 2008 and 2010.
 
Until this past season, Simpson's 251 wins sat as the most in program history and it wasn't until the 2025-26 season that current head coach and former player Jennifer Gross, a Cal Aggie Hall of Famer herself, surpassed him and he is one of only three coaches in program history with at least 200 wins.
 
1990 Women's Tennis – NCAA Division II National Champions
There's a lot of things that the 1990 UC Davis women's tennis team accomplished, the first being the winning of the program's first NCAA Division II National Championship and – its third national title overall - while also securing their 20th straight conference championship. Along the way, they extended their league winning streak to a 113 straight wins. It was a team that was on the cusp the year before, falling just short with a second-place finish at the 1989 NCAA Division II National Championships, that finally got over the line in dominating fashion to put the Aggies back at the top of the national stage.
 
What made this championship special was that it was hosted by the Aggies, with the championships being played at the Gold River Racquet Club and led by head coach and Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Famer Pam Gill-Fisher, UC Davis held court over three dual matches to bring home the title.
 
At the top of the lineup for coach Gill-Fisher was Cal Aggie Hall of Famer Alison Vidal, who at the No. 1 singles, won two out of her three matches in straight sets and set the tone with a three-set win at No. 1 in the national championship match. She was joined in doubles by another Cal Aggie Hall of Famer in Reagan Solt, as the two set the standard at No. 1 doubles, during a time where each doubles match counted as a team point, helping the Aggies to take the doubles point in all three matches.
 
Across the three matches the Aggies beat Shippensburg (8-1), Cal Poly (5-4) and Cal Poly Pomona (5-3) to win the championship. Along with Vidal and Solt, Heather King, Melissa Minkin, Neha Naik, Mindy Edwards and Jenny Newman all got wins in either singles or doubles across the matches to help power UC Davis to the championship.
 
In the end the team of Kim Borah, Jennifer Brimmer, Kerry Chew, Mindy and Jenny Edwards, Gayle Gallagher, Elizabeth Harris, Heather King, Melissa Minkin, Neha Maik, Jennifer Newman, Sandra Smith, Reagan Solt, Alison Vidal and Kim Westlund all led by Pam-Fisher maintained their composure across the tournament to bring home the first women's NCAA Division II National Championship in Aggie history.
 
Marci Porter Lucier – Legacy Award/Women's Basketball; Women's Rowing (1985-1990)
Marci Porter Lucier made her impact at Davis and beyond showcasing her talents as a world class athlete serving as a member of the 1992 US Rowing Olympic team before taking her place as part of the first all-female crew to compete at America's Cup in a long and decorated athletic career that has grown her legacy among some of the world's best athletes.
 
Lucier came to Davis and joined the Women's Basketball team, but an early injury forced her to look for another way for her to showcase her talents and that was in the boat as a member of the Aggie women's rowing team. She helped the Aggies win the Cal Cup in 1988 and she won a gold medal in the women's pair at the 1991 Pan Am Games. Her talents earned her a spot as an alternate with Team USA at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics, showing how far she had come in a sport she had only just picked up less than 10 years prior to those Olympics.
 
In 1995 she moved from the rowboat to the sailboat, when she joined Bill Koch's America3 team as part of the first all-female crew to race in the prestigious and historic America's Cup. Lucier would race in three other America Cup's with Oracle's America One team from 1997-99, capping off an athletic career that is sprinkled with international success and accolades.
 
Dr. Danika Bannasch and "Pint"– Special Recognition Award/Athletics (2012-2022)
Beginning in the 2012 football season, Pint, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, and his handler Dr. Danika Bannasch proudly retrieved the kickoff tee after every UC Davis kickoff at home games. And the two quickly became staples at all Aggie football games, a tradition that is carried on to this day by "Cori the Rocket Dog".
 
Pint was trained and cared for by Dr. Bannasch, a faculty member in the School of Veterinary Medicine, who provided him with care and safety while he made his appearances over 10 seasons. During that decade, Pint completed 387 tee runs over 44 games and his energy and consistency became something the entire stadium looked forward to—exciting children, students, alumni, and visiting fans alike.
 
Pint was a special part of Aggie football for a decade, and even today he is remembered fondly by the Davis community. And while he passed away in 2024, Pint will also be beloved thanks to his days and night delighting the crowds.
 
Baron Championship Rings - Hall of Fame Recognition
As part of this year's celebration, members of the 2026 Hall of Fame class will also receive a custom commemorative ring, created in partnership with Baron Championship Rings. Designed to honor their achievements and lasting impact on UC Davis Athletics, the rings serve as a timeless symbol of Aggie excellence and the legacy each inductee leaves behind.
 
CAAHOF NOMINATIONS BEING ACCEPTED: To nominate an individual for the CAAHOF, Aggie Legacy Award, or the Special Recognition Award (or view rules and criteria for each honor), please visit the links below. The deadline for consideration is January 31, 2027 for that year's CAAHOF ceremony, but nominations are always accepted. Any nomination received after that date will enter the subsequent year's nomination pool. 
 
CAAHOF Nomination Form (Student-Athlete) 
CAAHOF Nomination Form (Non-Participant)  
Aggie Legacy Award Nomination Form 
Special Recognition Award Nomination Form
Print-Friendly Nomination Form (PDF)  
Awards Criteria 
Frequently Asked Questions
 
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