JUNE 20, 2024 — UTSA Athletics has announced that former student-athletes Derrick Gervin (men’s basketball), Monica Gibbs (women’s basketball), Michael Rockett (baseball), Starlite Williams (women’s basketball, track and field) and Teddy Williams have been selected as the second Hall of Fame Class.
The 2024 class will be honored the weekend of October 18-20. The UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held on Friday, Oct. 18, and the group will be honored at other events that weekend, including on the field during the football game against Florida Atlantic the following day at the Alamodome.
They will join the six individuals who made up UTSA's first class of Hall of Fame inductees in October 2023.
The inaugural class included McKenzie Adams (volleyball/women’s basketball), Devin Brown (men’s basketball), Marcus Davenport (football) Tameka Roberts (track and field/women’s basketball), former head football coach Larry Coker and former athletics director Lynn Hickey.
Tickets for the 2024 UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will go on sale later this year.
One of only two UTSA men’s basketball players to have his jersey retired, Gervin was a two-time honorable mention All-American who became the school’s second-ever NBA Draft pick when he was selected in 1985 by the Philadelphia 76ers in the fourth round. The younger brother of NBA legend and former San Antonio Spurs player George Gervin, he led the Roadrunners in scoring and rebounding in each of his three seasons. The program’s first to reach 1,000 points and 500 rebounds, the Detroit native finished his career with 1,691 points and 684 boards. The San Antonio Express-News 1984 Sportsman of the Year led UTSA to a breakout campaign in 1983-84, as the team finished with a 20-8 record, the second-best mark by an NCAA Division I Independent that season. Gervin went on to a lengthy professional career including stops with the Nets and overseas with Hapoel Gvat/Yagur, where he earned 1995 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP honors after averaging 27.0 points per game.
The first UTSA women’s basketball player to have her jersey retired, Gibbs was a three-time all-conference performer and the 2009 Southland Conference Player and Defensive Player of the Year. A native of Stillwater, Oklahoma, she helped lead the Roadrunners to two of their most successful seasons in program history. In 2007-08, Gibbs was a first-team all-conference selection and the Southland Conference Tournament MVP after guiding UTSA to the tournament title and the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance during a 23-10 campaign. The following season, she led the Roadrunners to the Southland regular season and tournament crowns. UTSA then took No. 2-seeded Baylor to overtime in a narrow 87-82 loss in the NCAA First Round to close out a 24-9 record. She was the first Roadrunner to surpass 1,000 points, 900 rebounds and 600 assists, finishing her career with 1,460 points, 990 rebounds and 693 assists.
Rockett was an All-American and four-time all-conference outfielder, helping guide the Roadrunners to back-to-back Southland Conference Championships during his career. The Sugar Land, Texas, native started his career by earning second-team all-league and Freshman All-America accolades in 2006 after batting .352, scoring 32 runs and driving in 32. As a junior in 2008, he was named a second-team All-American, Southland Player of the Year and first-team all-conference after hitting .360 with 25 doubles, five triples, 10 home runs, 68 RBIs and 60 runs scored. On March 1 of that year, he became the second Roadrunner to hit for the cycle, performing that feat over the first four innings of a 16-2 victory over Sacred Heart. Also an excellent student, Rockett was a 2008 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree and a three-time Southland Academic All-Conference selection. Finishing his career with numerous school records under his belt, he was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the 13th round of the 2009 MLB Draft and went on to play in 352 minor league games over four seasons.
UTSA’s first All-American in any sport, Williams earned that status in both women’s basketball and track and field in 1985. She garnered Kodak and American Women’s Sports Foundation Honorable Mention All-America honors after averaging 17.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game to help UTSA to an 18-10 record and an Oil Country Athletic Conference (OCAC) Championship with a 9-1 mark. Later that spring, she finished eighth in the triple jump with a mark of 12.64 meters at the NCAA Outdoor Championships to collect first-team All-America accolades. Williams helped guide the Roadrunners to back-to-back OCAC titles in 1984 and 1985 and to at least 18 wins in each of her four seasons, including a 21-6 record in 1983-84. The San Antonio native finished her career with 1,607 points and 281 steals — still school records — to go with 636 rebounds and 674 assists.
Williams was a four-time All-American for the track and field program and the first Roadrunner to play in the NFL despite never setting foot on the gridiron during his time at UTSA. A native of Tyler, Texas, he finished in the top nine at national meets four times, including a fourth-place showing in the 60 meters at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships. A two-time recipient of the Southland Conference Indoor Athlete of the Year, Indoor Outstanding Track Performer and Outdoor Outstanding Track Performer awards, he collected nine Southland Conference gold medals in the sprints and helped lead the Roadrunners to six conference championships. Williams clocked a wind-aided time of 9.90 seconds in the 100m in 2009, the fastest time under any conditions in school history, and still owns school standards in the indoor 55m (6.23) and 60m (6.59). Following his track & field career at UTSA, he earned a tryout at the Dallas Cowboys training camp in 2010 at the Alamodome and went on to play in the NFL for nine seasons with seven different teams, including in Super Bowl 50 with the Carolina Panthers.
The UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Selection Committee is made up of designees from the UTSA Alumni Association Board, Letterwinners Club, Roadrunner Foundation and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, as well as representatives from the university and athletics department along with local print and electronic media.
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