PEORIA, IL – Former Bradley Men's Basketball Head Coach Jim Molinari will return to Carver Arena to be inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame Jan. 22 when the Braves host Illinois State and he will be joined in the induction class of 2020 Feb. 8-9 when four former student-athletes are recognized during the annual enshrinement ceremonies.

In addition to Molinari, who led the Bradley Basketball program from 1991-2002, the Bradley Athletics Class of 2020 will include volleyball player Stephanie Behrns (1999-2002), softball pitcher Ashley Birdsong (2005-09), men's basketball player Jeremy Crouch (2004-08) and baseball pitcher Rob Scahill (2006-09).

Molinari now serves as an assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma and a break in the Sooners schedule will allow him to return to Peoria for his induction ceremonies Jan. 22.  The Braves Club will host a special Game Day Luncheon in Molinari's honor at the Renaissance Coliseum Basketball Performance Court and his official induction into the Hall of Fame will take place during halftime of the game against I-74 Rival Illinois State.

The Bradley Athletics Hall of Fame weekend is slated for Feb. 8-9 and will include a Braves Club Game Day Luncheon in honor of Behrns, Birdsong, Crouch and Scahill Saturday, Feb. 8, followed by the group's induction into the Hall of Fame during halftime of the Feb. 9 men's basketball game against Evansville.

For both Hall of Fame related Game Day Luncheons,  doors will open at 11:00 a.m. at the Renaissance Coliseum Basketball Performance Court with lunch service beginning at 11:30 and the speaking program starting at noon.  Luncheon tickets are $25 ($20 for Braves Club members) and are available to purchase in advance via the Braves Club Office (309-677-2667 or BravesClub@bradley.edu).
 

Stephanie Behrns, Volleyball (1999-2002)

• One of seven two-time, first-team All-MVC performers in program history, Behrns was the third Bradley Volleyball student-athlete to accomplish the feat.

• Also earned first-team MVC Scholar-Athlete honors as both a junior and senior, in addition to honorable mention MVC Scholar-Athlete recognition as a sophomore.

• A second-team Academic All-District V selection as a senior, she was one of three winners of the 2003 Charles Orsborn Award, the most-prestigious honor awarded by Bradley University to a graduating senior student-athlete in recognition of athletic and academic accomplishment, as well as community service.

• Wrapped up her collegiate career fifth in career kills at Bradley and still ranks seventh all-time with 1,194 kills.

• The third player in program history to collect 1,100 career kills and 1,100 digs.

• Closed out her career ninth in career digs.

• Helped Bradley to a 78-38 (.672) record during her four years and the Braves finished among the top four in the MVC in three of her four seasons with a cumulative 47-25 (.653) league record.

• Part of Bradley's 1999 squad, which tied for second in the MVC for the best-ever Valley finish in program history.

• Led the team in kills each of her final two seasons and also paced the team in digs as a senior.

• Had 19 kills, 11 digs, and six blocks in a victory against #7 Northern Iowa in 2002, marking the highest-ranked opponent the Braves have defeated.

• Tallied 16 kills and 16 digs against UNI in 2001 in the program's first-ever win against a ranked squad.

Ashley Birdsong, Softball (2005-09)

• First-Team All-MVC & First-Team NFCA All-Mideast Region pick as a senior.

• Named MVC Tournament MVP after pitching all 29 innings of the tournament for the Braves, going 4-0 with a 1.45 ERA, including a two-hit shutout in the championship game versus regular-season champion Creighton.

• Her school career record of 870 career strikeouts was fourth in MVC history at the time of her graduation and she is currently fifth all-time in Valley history, while remaining seventh in Valley history in career innings pitched.

• The only pitcher in program history to lead the team in strikeouts in four consecutive seasons and owns four of the top six single-season strikeout marks.

• Tossed a school season record 232.0 innings as a senior, including the final 85.0 innings of the season, when she went 10-2 with a 1.15 ERA and five shutouts.  Her only losses during that stretch came against nationally-ranked teams in the NCAA Tournament as she struck out 70 and walked 14 during that closing stretch.

• Threw a three-hit shutout against 20th-ranked and top-16 national seed DePaul in the first NCAA Tournament game in program history. 

• Joined BU Hall of Fame member Beth Hawkins as the only players in program history to win 20 games in a season, reaching the mark both her junior (20-15) and senior seasons (20-12)

• Holds Bradley career marks for pitching starts (108), innings (794.2), strikeouts (870) and complete games (97), while she is second in school history in wins (65) and shutouts (25).

• Her career 2.15 ERA is seventh-best in school history, but remains the top mark by a Brave in the last 25 years.

Jeremy Crouch, Men's Basketball (2004-08)

• Helped Bradley Basketball play in the postseason each of his final three years as a member of the 2006 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 squad, the 2007 team that reached the second round of the NIT and the 2008 squad that played in the championship round of the inaugural CBI.

• Still Bradley's all-time leader with 262 career 3-point field goals made, 29 more than No. 2 Aaron Zobrist, Crouch is 22nd in program history with 1,306 career points scored (19th when he graduated).

• Averaged 11.4 ppg during his career, playing in 115 games over his four years.  Included in those 115 games are 16 non-conference wins verus DePaul (3x), Butler, Pepperdine, Southern Miss (2x), Rutgers, Iowa State (2x), VCU, Providence, Iowa, Cincinnati, Virginia and Tulsa.  Crouch played in all of those 16 games, averaging 31.6 minutes, 15.3 points, 2.4 assists and 1.4 steals.  In three games against Illinois and Michigan State (2x), Crouch also averaged 34.0 minutes, 12.3 points on 52.6 percent (10-19) shooting from 3-point range, 2.3 assists and 2.3 steals.

• In his breakout junior season, Crouch averaged 13.8 ppg and shared the national lead in 3-point field goal percentage, making 83-of-166 (.500) attempts from beyond the arc to become the fourth player in program history to lead the nation in a statistical category.

• In the 32 years of the college basketball 3-point era, Crouch remains the only player in MVC history to make at least 3.0 3FG/gm while converting at least 50 percent of his attempts in a season (only three players nationally have accomplished the feat since his graduation).

• Named to the MVC Most Improved Team following his junior season in 2006-07, Crouch earned first-team All-MVC honors as a senior in 2007-08 when he tied as the league's second-leading scorer at 15.8 ppg.

• Averaged 8.3 ppg and shot 36.8 percent from 3-point range as a freshman in 2004-05.  His 46 3-pointers made as a freshman remain second only to Anthony Parker's 47 for the most by a Braves freshman.

• Led The Valley by making what remains the Bradley single-season record 118 3-pointers in 2007-08 (no other Brave has made more than 90 treys in a season) and he is the only player in Bradley history to twice make more than 80 3-pointers in a season.

• Named MVC Most Valuable Player by CollegeInsider.com in 2008.

• 2008 Bradley Basketball MVP and 2008 Bradley Athletics Coach Joe Stowell Award recipient.

• Two-time Valley Scholar-Athlete, earning first-team recognition in 2008 and second-team honors in 2007.

• Played professionally for one season in Germany's top league in 2008-09 before a chronic ankle injury forced his retirement.

• Playing for the Always A Brave Bradley Alumni team that reached the final four of the 2016 The Basketball Tournament, averaged 7.2 points while shooting 47.6 percent (10-21) from 3-point range in the team's five games.

• The former boys basketball head coach at Illini Bluffs High School, Crouch is the boys golf head coach and boys basketball assistant coach at his alma mater, Pekin Community High School.

Jim Molinari, Men's Basketball Head Coach (1991-2002)

• The 11th men's basketball head coach in Bradley history, Molinari remains the program's all-time leader with 110 Missouri Valley Conference victories and fourth in program history with 174 total victories.

• Led the Braves to a 174-152 overall record, as well as a 110-88 MVC ledger in his 11 seasons.

• In addition to ranking fourth with 174 total victories, Molinari ranks first in Bradley history with 11 MVC Tournament wins and fifth with four postseason tournament victories.

• Molinari's 110 MVC victories are 19 more than the No. 2 total (Joe Stowell, 91) in Bradley history and he remains ninth in league history (was fifth at the time of his departure from Bradley in 2002).

• Led the Braves to their last MVC regular-season title in program history in 1995-96.

• Won at least 12 Valley games five times, including four consecutive years from 1993-97, and finished in the top two in the league standings five times.

• In addition to a NCAA Tournament at-large selection in 1996, Molinari's teams played in five National Invitation Tournaments, giving him six postseason appearances in an 8-year period from 1993-2001.

• The 1996 MVC Coach of the Year, Molinari also was named the CollegeInsider.com Valley Coach of the Year in 2001.

• Led the Braves to the Carver Arena record 26-game winning streak, as well as a 19-game Valley home win streak.

• His Bradley tenure included non-conference wins against Butler (twice), DePaul, Georgia Tech, Michigan, Ole Miss (twice), Oregon State, Penn State, Saint Louis (twice) and Villanova.

• In his 11 seasons, only one senior failed to graduate:  after a change in majors altered his academic timeline, Anthony Parker went on to a long and successful professional playing career.

• Was the head coach for the USA Basketball squad that won a gold medal at the 1997 World University Games.

• Was the head coach at Northern Illinois for two years prior to taking over at Bradley and he has gone on to serve as head coach at Western Illinois and Minnesota (current assistant coach at Oklahoma).

Rob Scahill, Baseball (2006-09)

• A four-year pitcher for the Bradley Baseball program, Scahill was selected in the 48th round of the 2008 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the New York Yankees.

• Opted to return to Bradley for his senior year (the first for head coach Elvis Dominguez).

• Named honorable mention All-Missouri Valley Conference as a senior in 2009, claiming the Bradley Baseball Mike Dunne Award as the team's top pitcher.

• Selected in the eighth round of the 2009 MLB Draft by the Colorado Rockies.

• Steadily advanced through the Rockies organization and made his MLB debut for the Rockies Sept. 11, 2012.

• Pitched at the Major League level for parts of seven seasons with the Rockies (2012-14), Pirates (2015-16), Brewers (2016-17) and White Sox (2018).

• Appeared in 126 MLB games, posting a 5-7 record with a 3.85 ERA in 149.2 innings.

• His 126 career appearances ranked fourth-most among Bradley players to pitch in the Majors.

• Scahill is one of 15 former Braves to go on to play in Major League Baseball.