New Orleans - The Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2010 features three of the Green Wave's top student-athletes from the last 10 years, a former standout swimmer turned Olympic coach and an individual who not only graduated from Tulane, but has dedicated the last 44 years of his life to the Green Wave, as the latest class was announced today by Tulane Director of Athletics Rick Dickson.

The 2010 class of Jimi Flowers (men's swimming), Michael Kogan (men's tennis), Gayle Letulle (Billy Slatten Award winner), Teana McKiver (women's basketball) and Mewelde Moore (football) will be inducted on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, from 12-2 p.m. at the Lavin-Bernick Center on the Tulane University campus. The inductees will also be honored at halftime of TU's homecoming game against Army at the Louisiana Superdome the following day. For banquet reservations, please call Sue Bower at (504) 865-5513 or email sbower@tulane.edu.

"It is always a privilege and pleasure to make the calls to our hall of fame selectees and families on behalf of our committee, which has once again outdone themselves with this year's class," Dickson said. "This diverse group represents all the qualities that make up the fabric of athletics at Tulane- excellence in scholastic, competition and service achievement- that has become our hallmark. Congratulations to each of the newest members of our hall of fame and to their families."

Flowers was a member of the Green Wave men's swim team from 1979-83 and becomes the third men's swimmer to be inducted into the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame. During his collegiate career, Flowers was a four-time Metro Conference champion in the 200m breaststroke, served as the team captain as a junior and senior, competed at three NCAA championships and was named the Tulane "Athlete of the Year" for the entire school in 1983.

A four-year letterwinner and three-time team MVP, Flowers held the school record in both the 100m and 200m breast and the 400 IM. He attended the 1983 Sports Festival, where he represented the South Team, and was a 1980 and 1984 Olympic Selection Meet qualifier.



Flowers began his long association with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) family in Colorado Springs, Colo. in 1989, serving as USA Swimming's National Team Coordinator. He returned to the collegiate ranks at Auburn where he was the assistant swim coach for both men and women. During his time at Auburn, he coached the men to three SEC Championships (1997, 1998, 1999) and to the NCAA Championships in 1997 and 1999.

Following his stint at Auburn, he returned to the USOC in 1999 as the Aquatics Center Manager. Most recently, he worked as the National Team Manager and Head Coach for U.S. Paralympics Swimming, directing that team to success at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.

Flowers died on Friday, July 10, 2009 following a fall in a climbing accident in Colorado, and will be inducted posthumously.

Kogan is one of Tulane's most decorated men's tennis student-athletes. He was a five-time All-American after earning the honor in both singles and doubles in 2001 and 2003 and earned the honor in singles in 2004. Kogan completed his career as the national singles runner-up in 2004 and was selected as the Conference USA Men's Tennis Player of the Decade in 2005.

During his career, he was named the Conference USA Player of the Year all four years (2001-04) and was the C-USA Freshman of the Year in 2001, and earned first-team All-C-USA honors all four years as well. Kogan helped the Green Wave to three C-USA titles (2001, 03, 04), four NCAA Tournament appearances from 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, and two Top-20 national rankings (20th in 2003 and 2004).

He finished each of his seasons nationally ranked in both singles and doubles, including 30th in singles and sixth in doubles as a freshman in 2001, 26th in singles and 13th in doubles and a sophomore in 2002, 11th in singles and fifth in doubles as a junior in 2003 and 10th in singles and 19th in doubles as a senior in 2004.

Kogan concluded his stellar collegiate career at Tulane ranked No. 1 in six career statistical categories, including first in singles victories (119), singles winning percentage (.799; 119-30), first win doubles wins (97), doubles winning percentage (.843; 97-18) and his 216 career victories and .818 (216-48) career overall winning percentage each rank first in the Tulane annals.

He also owns four of the top six single-season singles wins marks, including second (33 in 2002) and third (32 in 2001) and he holds the top three single-season overall wins records, including a record 59 in 2001 and ranked second and third in single-season doubles wins.

Kogan was voted as the Louisiana Player of the Year from 2001-03 by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA) and was also named the 2001 LSWA Freshman of the Year.

After answering an ad in the Tulane student newspaper for a statistician as an undergraduate student in 1966, New Orleans native Gayle Letulle worked for eight years in the sports information office - through his undergrad and post-graduate days, before entering the full-time work force. He is the third recipient of the Billy Slatten Award, which was established in 2004 in honor of William A. "Billy" Slatten, a longtime supporter of Tulane Athletics, a member of the Tulane Board of Trustees and the Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. Letulle joins former Tulane radio broadcaster Bruce Miller (2007) and former Times-Picayune beatwriter George Sweeney (2009) as Slatten Award winners.

Forty-four years later, Letulle remains a fixture at Tulane football and basketball games. In addition to his Tulane stat duties, Letulle has been integral as a football and basketball historian for the athletics department. Recognized as an expert in the statistics field, Letulle has also been the New Orleans Saints' official statistician since their inception in 1968.

In addition, he serves as the official statistician for the Sugar Bowl and the Louisiana High School Football Championships and has handled statistics duties for every New Orleans' Super Bowl. He joined the New Orleans Hornets game-day staff, after serving in the same position for the New Orleans Jazz throughout their tenure in the Big Easy, which ended in 1979.

McKiver transferred to Tulane from East Carolina following the 1998-99 season and went on to start 66 of 96 games for the Green Wave from 2000-03. During her career with the Wave, she helped the team to a three-year overall record of 65-31, which included back-to-back 20-win seasons in 2000-01 (22-10) and 2001-02 (24-11). McKiver was an integral part of Tulane's 2001 Conference USA Championship team and helped the team to three straight trips to the NCAA Tournament.

During her senior campaign, she received honorable mention All-America honors from the Women's Basketball Coaches Association/Kodak, from WomensCollegeHoops.com and from the Basketball Times. She garnered second-team All-America accolades as junior by Basketball Times in 2002.

McKiver averaged 12.5 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game and shot 58.8 percent from the field for her career and ranks as the school's career leaders in blocks (second), field goal percentage (third), rebounds (eighth), scoring (11th). She was a second team All C-USA selection in 2002 and 2003 and was the C-USA Sixth Player of the Year in 2001.

Following her collegiate career, she signed with the WNBA's Charlotte Sting. During her rookie season with the Sting, she played in 31 games, finishing in the league's top 20 in blocks and she shot 52 percent from the field. McKiver played three seasons in Charlotte before closing out her career with the Phoenix Mercury in 2007.

One of the most productive offensive players in the history of college football, Moore was a do-it-all running back for the Green Wave from 2000-03. A versatile back who started 41 of 44 games, he rewrote the Conference USA and Tulane record books during his stellar four-year career and by the time he played his last college down he had become the Tulane and C-USA all-time leader in rushing and all-purpose yards, and inscribed his name into the NCAA record book as well by finishing as the second player in NCAA history to record 4,000 rushing and 2,000 receiving yards. Moore's college performance did not go unnoticed by his conference brethren as he was selected to the C-USA All-Decade Team (1994-2005). He was a three-time C-USA Player of the Week selection and was a two-time member of the All C-USA second team in 2002 and 2003.

Moore's career totals included 6,505 all-purpose yards, which ranks him 11th on the NCAA Division I-A all-time chart. He rushed for 4,364 yards on 909 attempts with 22 career 100-yard rushing games, all school and C-USA records, and averaged 4.8 yards per carry with 21 touchdowns. At the time of his departure, his rushing total was 34th all-time in Division I-A and he became the first TU player to garner more than 2,000 rushing and 1,000 receiving yards in his career.

As a freshman in 2000, he turned in one of the best rushing seasons in school history and the best-ever by a freshman when he posted the fourth-best single-season rushing total in Tulane history with 890 yards on 174 carries. It was the highest rushing total at Tulane since 1970 and the top mark ever by a freshman. He was named to the Football News Freshman All-America first team and was tabbed a second team All-America performer by The Sporting News.

The following year, Moore became the first player in NCAA Division I-A history to rush for over 1,250 yards and catch more than 60 passes in the same season. This performance broke Tulane's 53-year old record for single-season rushing (1,421) and shattered the school and Conference USA single-season all-purpose yardage marks (2,259), finishing third in the nation in that category. He received honorable mention All-America honors from CollegeFootballNews.com.



In 2002, Moore led the Green Wave to an 8-5 season that included a bowl victory over Hawaii in the ConAgra Foods Hawaii Bowl. He became just the second player in school history to post back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons after gaining 1,138 yards on a school-record 288 carries, and led Tulane in receiving for the second straight season with 52 catches for 545 yards.

Following his collegiate career at Tulane, Moore was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth round (119th overall selection) of the 2004 NFL Draft. He spent four seasons with the Vikings before signing as a free agent with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2008 and was a member of the Steelers' Super Bowl Championship team in 2008.