Athletic Hall of Fame adds three

Cover photo by Camryn Stemle ’23.

Molly Martin Pabst ’11, Carley Meek Riehle ’08 and Larry Duke were enshrined into the Hanover Athletic Hall of Fame during an Oct. 30 campus ceremony. The trio was also honored at halftime of the Panthers’ football game against Manchester University.

Pabst was a four-time first-team all-Heartland Conference honoree for the women’s basketball squad. She graduated as the leading scorer (1,887 points) and rebounder (1,091 boards) in school history. As a senior, she led the Panthers to a program-record 25-2 overall mark, including Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament championships and an NCAA III tournament berth.

Hanover’s outstanding senior athlete in 2011, Pabst was named the HCAC newcomer of the year in 2007 and the league’s most valuable player as a senior. She was an honorable mention all-American and first-team all-region selection as a senior, as well as a second-team choice after her junior season.

Riehle, the College’s outstanding senior athlete in 2008, was a four-time first-team all-Heartland Conference selection for Hanover’s volleyball team. She was named the HCAC’s most valuable player as a senior and, that season, spurred the Panthers to a HCAC regular-season and tournament titles and the program’s first berth in the NCAA III national tournament.

An outside hitter, Riehle was a three-time team most valuable player and graduated as Hanover’s career leader in kills (1,805). She also set school single-season marks for kills (476) and service aces (61).

Duke has served as the radio and streaming video “voice of the Panthers” for more than 30 years. He called his first Hanover football contest for Madison, Ind., radio station WORX in 1984 and has since totaled nearly 400 football games and hundreds of men’s and women’s basketball contests.

In addition to regular-season action, Duke has broadcast nine NCAA III and three NAIA football playoff games, as well as four women’s NCAA III tournament games and 17 men’s tourney contests, including three Sweet 16 appearances and a trip to the Elite Eight. In recent years, he has also called an assortment of Hanover sporting events including baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse and volleyball.

Started in 1995, the Hanover College Athletic Hall of Fame exists to recognize individuals who have served Hanover athletics with distinction, either by virtue of their performance as a coach, a team member, or by meritorious efforts on behalf of athletics, either as an undergraduate or in years after leaving the institution. The hall of fame, which resides in the Horner Health and Recreation Center, currently honors more than 150 individuals who have left their mark on Hanover athletics.