General | 1/7/2025 4:12:00 PM

After a four-year hiatus, Utah Tech University Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics announced on Tuesday that Utah Tech Athletics will welcome four new members and one championship winning team into its Hall of Fame.

The University's 12^th Athletics Hall of Fame class will include softball player Janessa Bassett Pope (2015-18), men's soccer player Bryan Baugh (2014-17), baseball player Drew McLaughlin (2014-17), and men's basketball player Monte Vre Non (1964-66). In addition, the 2003 NJCAA Division I national championship winning Dixie State women's soccer team will also be enshrined. 

"We are excited to renew our tradition of paying tribute and honoring those talented student-athletes who played a key role in this institution's rich athletic history," Beazer said. "This 2025 class of inductees left a legacy not only on this campus, but also left a mark at the regional and national level, all of which helped Utah Tech University reach the pinnacle of collegiate competition at the NCAA Division I level." 
 
The 2025 Utah Tech Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony luncheon will take place in the Utah Tech Holland Centennial Commons Zion Room on Saturday, March 1, at 12 noon. In addition, the 2025 Hall of Fame Class will be recognized later that evening at halftime of the Utah Tech men's basketball home game vs. California Baptist. 

The Utah Tech (and formerly Dixie State) Athletics Hall of Fame was established in 2007. With the inclusion of the 2025 induction class, the Hall of Fame now features 46 individual inductees, including coaches, student-athletes, administrators, staff and volunteers. In addition, five championship-winning teams have also been enshrined.

Below is information on the 2025 Utah Tech Athletics Hall of Fame Class:
 
Janessa Bassett Pope (Softball, 2015-18)
Janessa Bassett Pope served as the everyday centerfielder and lead-off hitter for four seasons at Dixie State. She was a four-time first team All-Pacific West Conference, and four-time first team all-NFCA and D2CCA all-region selection. Bassett Pope is also the only player in program history to earn NFCA and D2CCA All-America accolades in all four seasons, including first team NFCA honors as a freshman in 2015. 
 
Bassett Pope, who was voted 2015 PacWest Freshman of the Year and 2017 PacWest Defender of the Year, helped lead the Trailblazers to a 172-47 overall record during her four seasons. She was also part of one PacWest championship (2015), four-straight NCAA West Regional appearances, three NCAA West Super Regional appearances, one Super Regional championship, and a 2015 NCAA Division II World Series appearance and national runner-up finish. 

She also performed in the classroom as she was a four-time Academic all-PacWest pick.
 
Bassett Pope closed her storied career as the program's all-time hits leader (284) and is currently ranked first all-time in program history in runs (248), triples (28), total bases (413), walks (115) and stolen bases (162). In addition, Bassett Pope is currently second all-time in career batting average (.426), third and fourth in games played/started (209), fifth in doubles (43) and sixth in slugging percentage (.620). 

Bassett Pope also holds program single-season records in runs scored (81, 2015) and triples (12, 2015), and single games records for stolen bases (5 at BYU-Hawaii; 3/7/15) and triples (co-leader 2 twice in 2015). 





Bryan Baugh (Men's Soccer, 2014-17)
Bryan Baugh was a stalwart in Trailblazers' defensive backfield for four seasons, during which he was a four-time all-Pacific West Conference selection, including earning first team honors in 2016 and 2017. He also garnered PacWest Defender of the Year accolades in 2016, was a two-time D2CCA West Region pick, and is the only player in program history to be named an All-American (2016 D2CCA Honorable Mention). 

He not only excelled on the pitch, he excelled in the classroom. Baugh was a four-time Academic all-PacWest pick, a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-Region selection, and a two-time CoSIDA second team Academic All-America honoree. In addition, Baugh was voted the 2016-17 PacWest Men's Soccer Scholar Athlete of the Year.
 
Baugh anchored a 2016 Trailblazer defense that surrendered only 17 goals in 1,723 minutes (0.89 GAA - #24 in NCAA Division II), as the team went on to win the PacWest title and earn the program's first NCAA Tournament berth. 
 
One year earlier in 2015, he played a key role on a DSU defense led the nation at the NCAA D-II level in save percentage (0.88), and he finished in the top-10 in both GAA (#5 – 0.59) and ShO% (#10 – 0.56). 
 
Baugh closed his career second all-time in program history in both matches started (62) and assists (14), and he is currently ranked in the top-10 in career matches played (#6 - 65) and points (#9 – 22; 4G/11A). 




 
Drew McLaughlin (Baseball, 2014-17)
Drew McLaughlin was a four-year starter, primarily at second base, and saw his name near the top of the line-up card during his storied career in a Trailblazer uniform. He was also a four-time All-Pacific West Conference honoree with three first-team nods, and a two-time NCBWA and ABCA first team all-West Region selection.  
 
He helped lead the Trailblazers to a 147-64-1 overall record during his four seasons and was part of two PacWest championship winning teams (2014 and 2015), and four-straight NCAA West Regional appearances. 

McLaughlin remains one of three players in the program's NCAA era to bat over .400 in a season, doing so in the 2016 campaign with a .408 average on his way to breaking the single season hits record (91). 
 
McLaughlin closed his four-year career as the program's all-time hits leader (291) and is currently ranked first all-time in program history in runs (185), starts (200), and at-bats (808). Additionally, McLaughlin is currently second all-time in career doubles (tied with 46), total bases (371) and games played (204), third in stolen bases (32), fourth in batting average (.360), t-sixth in triples (5) and 10^th in RBI (110). 





 
Monte Vre Non (Men's Basketball, 1964-66)
The late Monte Vre Non will go down as one of the greatest basketball players, not only during the junior college era, but in the institution's overall athletic history. 

Vre Non was a two-time first team all-ICAC conference and NJCAA regional selection in his two seasons playing for Hall of Fame Head Coach Doug Allred. As a freshman in the 1964-65 season, the 6-2 guard averaged 18.0 ppg and was a 1965 NJCAA Region I All-Star Team pick.

One year later, Vre Non averaged nearly 21 points a game and helped lead the Rebels to a Region I title and a berth into the 1966 NJCAA National Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas. 

Vre Non closed out his two-year Dixie College career with 913 points (19.4 ppg). He scored in double figures in 42 of 47 career games with 23 games of 20 or more points, including five games of 30 or more points, highlighted by a 41-point performance in a win vs. Snow College during the 1965-66 season.

Vre Non went on to play two seasons at Weber State in Ogden, Utah, where he played basketball and competed in track and field. In 1968, he broke the then-Weber State and Big Sky Conference record in the pole vault with a vault of 15-3. 




 
2003 Dixie State College Women's Soccer Team
The 2003 women's soccer team won the program's second NJCAA national championship in four seasons (2000), and the third of four national titles the institution would claim during its junior college era. 

The Rebels played to a 15-5-2 overall record that season and advanced on to the 2003 NJCAA national tournament in Kansas (11/20-23/03), where the Rebels posted a pair of shutout results and outscored their opponents by an 8-1 count over three matches.
 
DSC opened the national tournament with a 4-0 quarterfinal victory over Young Harris, then followed that up with a 3-1 result over Schoolcraft to advance on to the national championship match. The Rebels then clinched their second national title with a 1-0 triumph over Community College of Rhode Island. 

DSC landed four players on the all-tournament team, including Julianne Henricksen, Nicole Anderson, Suzanne Hunt and Jacquelyn Trickey. Anderson was also named the tournament's Most Valuable fullback, while Hunt collected Most Valuable Goalkeeper honors. 

In addition, University Hall of Fame head coach Linda Huddleston was named Coach of the Tournament. Huddleston also garnered 2003 NSCAA West Region and NJCAA National Coach of the Year accolades. 

Members of the 2003 national championship team were Henricksen, Anderson, Hunt, Trickey, Rebecca Petersen, Cami Drecksel, Brooke Grant, Kristin Larson, Megan Goodrich, Brooke Roberts, Ashley Beck, Laura Goodrich, Amanda Dabb, Julee Russell, Liesel Bennion, Stephanie Swenson, Andrea Hooton, Rachel Eckholdt, Katie O'Connell, Tara Castelli and Jennifer Banks. Coach Huddleston was joined on her staff by assistant coach Jamie Hurt.