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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Evansville athletic department has announced the Class of 2012 for the UE Athletics Hall of Fame.
 
Set for induction are Launa Hankins (women’s soccer), Andrew Norton (men’s soccer), Nick Waninger (cross country) and Andrea Werner (women’s golf).  The induction is set to take place on Saturday, February 25 at the Victory Theater in downtown Evansville.  Those wanting to attend can find full information by clicking on the invitation on above the release.  They will also be honored at the Aces’ basketball game against Missouri State that day at 1:05 p.m.
 
Launa Hankins graduated from the university in 1996 and was UE’s NCAA Woman of the Year candidate that year.  She was the team captain for team captain for the first 3 years of the women’s soccer program, setting career records for goals (17), assists (12) and points (46)
when she graduated. 
 
Hankins led UE to the 1994 Great Midwest Conference championship and was named a 1st team all-conference player in that same season.  She set the foundation for the future success of the program.
 
Andrew Norton was in the class of 1987 and played Hall of Fame coach Fred Schmalz from 1983 through 1986.  In 1985, Norton was named a 3rd Team NSCAA All-American and his lasting impact on the program is shown in his record setting career as he still ranks in the top ten in program history, scoring 25 goals from his midfield position. 
 
He helped lead the program to the NCAA Final Four in 1985 and is the co-holder
of the UE record for most goals in a match with four.  Norton was named an All-Region player in  1985 and was the recipient of the 1984 Spirit of the Aces Award.
 
The most recent graduate in the Class of 2012 is cross country runner Nick Waninger.  A 2006 graduate of UE, Waninger owns four of the top ten times for both the 8K and 10K while setting the school record in the 10K in 2004. He was named an All-Conference runner in the MVC in 2004, ’05 and ’06 while making the MVC All-Centennial Team in all four years with the Aces.
 
Waninger remains to this day the program’s only All-American, being given the honor in 2003 and 2004 and was honored in 2005 and 2007 with the William V. Slyker Award, which is given to the school’s top male athlete.  A six-time MVC Runner of the Week, Waninger received the ’07 Ralph H. Coleman Award and the James A. Byers Athletic Student Scholarship.
 
Ida Stieler Award winner and 2003 graduate Andrea Werner is the fourth inductee into the Hall of Fame.  Werner has been playing professionally since her graduation and is another who has left a lasting impact on the program.  As a junior, she set the UE record with an 80.2 average and shattered the mark as a senior, averaging just 77.82 strokes per round.
 
She was a 2-time tournament medalist and is still No. 2 on UE’s career stroke average list, finishing her career with a mark of 81.96.  She was a 1^st Team All-MVC golfer in 2003 and finished fourth in that year’s tournament.