LOGAN, Utah – The Utah State University Athletics Department will honor three outstanding individuals and two teams when it inducts its 2026 Hall of Fame Class this fall. Date, location and ticket information for the event will be announced at a later date.

The three individuals and two teams inducted into the 2026 class include Chari Hawkins (women's track and field), Reid Newey (men's basketball), Jennifer Schlott (women's basketball), the 1960 football team and the 1961 football team.

Since its inception in 1993, nearly 150 student-athletes, coaches, administrators and contributors, along with five teams, have been inducted into the Utah State Athletics Hall of Fame.

Bios on this year's Hall of Fame class are below.


1960 FOOTBALL TEAM
The 1960 Utah State Football team set the school record for wins as it posted a 9-2 record and tied for first in the Skyline Conference. The Aggies outscored their opponents 274-85 that season. Utah State concluded its season by playing in the Sun Bowl. The Aggies averaged 26.1 points per game and held opponents to just 6.5 points during the regular season, ranking fifth in the nation. The 1960 team was ranked twice during the season coming in at No. 18 and No. 19 in consecutive weeks in late October and early November. The 1960 team set the school record with 312.0 rushing yards per game, a mark that still stands today, as does its 6.5 points per game allowed. The 1960 team allowed 194.5 total yards per game, including 84.7 rushing yards and 109.8 passing yards, marks that rank third, fourth and fifth all-time in school history, respectively.


1961 FOOTBALL TEAM
The 1961 Utah State Football team tied the school record for wins as it posted a 9-1-1 record and shared the Skyline Conference Championship with a 4-0-1 record. Utah State culminated its season by playing in the Gotham Bowl in New York City. USU averaged 38.7 points per game to rank first in the nation and was a school record until 2018. USU rushed for 280.8 yards per game, a mark that still ranks third all-time in school history. Defensively, USU allowed just 7.8 points per game, which ranked top 10 in the nation, and ranks second all-time in program history. The 1961 team allowed 139.4 yards of total offense per game, including 50.8 rushing yards and 88.6 passing yards, all of which are still school records today. Defensively, USU held eight of its 11 opponents to 10 or fewer points. USU was nationally ranked during 10 weeks during the season and finished the year ranked No. 10 in both the Associated Press and UPI polls, the highest ranking in program history. At least seven players from the 1961 roster went on to careers in the NFL, including first-round picks Merlin Olsen (3rd overall) and Bill Munson (7th overall). Olsen was named a Consensus All-American and winner of the prestigious Outland Trophy as the nation's best interior lineman.


CHARI HAWKINS
Rexburg, Idaho
Track & Field (2010-15)
Originally from Rexburg, Idaho, Chari Hawkins excelled as a multi-sport standout and followed her passion for track and field to Utah State University. There, she would go on to become the most decorated female athlete in school history, a five-time All-American, and the university's first female United States Olympian.

Over her historic collegiate career (2010-15), she captured an astonishing 24 All-Conference honors across both the Western Athletic Conference and the Mountain West. She was a WAC Champion, a MW Champion, a two-time MW Athlete of the Year including MW Outdoor Athlete of the Year, and the NCAA Female Sportsman of the Year. She still holds school records in the 60-meter hurdles (8.30), indoor high jump (1.83m/6-0), outdoor high jump (1.81m/5-11.25), pentathlon (4,194 points) and heptathlon (5,750 points).

Following her collegiate career, Hawkins has proudly worn the Team USA uniform on eight different National, World, and Olympic teams and represented the United States on the All-World team at the World University Games in South Korea. With 15 international medals to her name, she has cemented her legacy as one of the most decorated combined-events athletes in American history.

Off the track, Hawkins' impact spans just as far. Armed with a master's degree in education, she is a dedicated global advocate for mental health and wellness, inspiring millions daily through educational content, fitness routines, and powerful messages of resilience. Utah State University was the foundation where Chari built her historic career, met her husband CJ, and learned to truly believe that she could win.


REID NEWEY
Roy, Utah
Men's Basketball (1984; 1987-89)
Reid Newey was a first-team All-Big West Conference selection in 1989 and ranks among the program's leaders in several statistical categories. With 1,536 career points, Newey is the 13th leading scorer in program history. He ranks 16th in school history with 298 career assists, eighth in career steals (128), fourth in career 3-point field goals made (237), 10th in career 3-point percentage (.414) and 19th in career games played (116). As a senior in 1988-89, Newey scored 542 points, which ranks 38th in school history, while making 98 3-pointers, tied for the third-most all-time. He was named to the all-freshman team in 1984 following his first season with the Aggies, one year before the 3-point line would be adopted into the game. Following his playing career, Newey returned to the program as an assistant coach under head coach Kohn Smith from 1989-91.


JENNIFER SCHLOTT
Mesa, Arizona
Women's Basketball (2011-14)
Jennifer Schlott earned Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American honors as a senior in 2014 after being named the Mountain West Player of the Year, the only player in program history to receive either honor. Schlott is USU's record-holder in total points (1,566) and free throws made (401) and ranks second all-time in assists (436), second in field goals made (519), second in 3-pointers made (127), tied for second in games played (126), fourth in free throw percentage (.817), ninth in scoring (12.4 points per game), tied for ninth in steals (157), and 10th in 3-point field goal percentage (.335). She led the Aggies to 72 wins during her career, still a program-record over four years. During her senior season, she set single season school records for total points (811), scoring average (26.2) and assists (192), while also becoming the only player in school history to top 40 points in a single game (44). She was a two-time All-Conference honoree and earned conference player of the week honors a program-record six times. She was a four-time Academic All-Conference selection and earned MW Scholar-Athlete honors as a senior. Following her collegiate career, she earned a training camp invite with the WNBA's Indiana Fever, before playing professionally overseas for several seasons in Australia, Finland, Germany and Hungary.