Former Gamecock, Clemson greats among this year’s SC Athletic Hall of Fame Class

South Carolina great Marcus Lattimore and Clemson golfing standout Lucas Glover will be part of this year’s SC Hall of Fame Class.

This year’s 10-person class was announced on Tuesday and will be inducted on May 20 at Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

The rest of the class includes York basketball and UNC standout Ivory Latta, former NBA standout and coach Clifford Ray, Coastal Carolina quarterback Tyler Thigpen, S.C. State football coach Oree Banks, College of Charleston and North Charleston basketball star Anthony Johnson, Clemson baseball coach Jack Leggett, Chester and Harvard basketball great Allison Feaster and Columbia basketball legend William Partlow.

Marcus Lattimore: He was a standout running back at Byrnes High where he rushed for almost 8,000 yards, won three state titles and was named SC’s Mr. Football and Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior.

At USC from 2010- 2012. Lattimore is sixth all-time on USC rushing list and owns the school record for rushing touchdowns (38) and overall touchdowns (41).

Lattimore earned the SEC Freshman of the Year award and unanimous Freshman All-American honors after a stellar first season, which included a program-record 40 rushing attempts for 212 yards and three touchdowns against Florida. He helped the Gamecocks defeat the Gators 36-14 at The Swamp to clinch USC’s first SEC Eastern Division title.

Lattimore was a fourth-round pick by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2013 NFL Draft. He never played a game for the 49ers because of injuries and retired from playing football at the age of 23.

Lattimore coached football at Heathwood Hall from 2016-17 and spent two years as South Carolina’s director of player development (2018-19). He was elected to USC’s Hall of Fame in 2019.

Lucas Glover: He was a two-time first-team All-American by the Golf Coaches Association in 2000-01. Glover was a three-time South Carolina Amateur Champion from 1998-2000, the first to do that in more than 60 years.

Glover has won six times on the PGA Tour, including twice in 2023 when he won the Wyndham in Greensboro and the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis. He won the 2009 US Open Championship, the only former Clemson golfer to win a major championship.

Ivory Latta: She is all-time leading scorer in SC high school basketball history with 4.319 points, including a 70-point game for York High School in 2003. Latta was a four-year starter who led the University of North Carolina to back-to-back Final Fours and was named the 2006 ESPN.com, USBWA, Basketball Times and Gballmag.com National Player of the Year.

Latta was selected 11th overall in the 2007 WNBA Draft by the Detroit Shock where she was a two-time WNBA All-Star (2013, 2014). Her No. 12 jersey was retired by UNC.

Oree Banks: He had a long coaching career that spanned over 30. His career included football head coaching stints at S.C. State and West Virginia State where he posted a 15-year overall record of 76-63-3.

Banks went 44-27-2 in eight seasons at S.C. State (1965-72) and was named the SIAC Coach of the Year in 1965

Allison Feaster: She is the second all-time leading scorer in SC high school basketball history behind Latta. Feaster attended Harvard and led the nation in scoring at 28.5 points per game. She holds career records for most points (2,312), rebounds (1,134) and steals (308) at Harvard.

Feaster played in the WNBA for Los Angeles, Charlotte Sting and Indiana Fever. She is currently the VP/Team Operations and Organizational Growth for the NBA’s Boston Celtics.

Anthony Johnson: He was College of Charleston’s first NBA draft pick when he was selected 40th overall (2nd round) by the Sacramento Kings and spent 13 years in the league.

At CofC, the Cougars compiled an impressive 101-17 overall record including four Trans America Athletic Conference championships, two National Invitational Tournament and two NCAA Tournament appearances. He was the TAAC Player of the Year in 1997.

Jack Leggett: In his 22 seasons as Clemson baseball coach from 1994-2015, he led the Tigers to 955 victories, 21 NCAA Tournament appearances and six College World Series berths. Clemson was the seventh-winningest program in the nation during his time as head coach, while his six trips to Omaha tied for ninth most in the nation during his tenure.

William Partlow: He was a historical and pioneering basketball coach in Columbia (1960–69) during segregation. His teams at Booker T. Washington High captured six state championships and sent several of his players to college basketball.

Partlow became head basketball coach and athletics director at Benedict where he won several tournament championships. In 1976, Partlow moved to San Francisco and became the first African American Athletics Director at San Francisco State University. During his tenure, he hired two young football coaches who became Super Bowl-winning coaches, Mike Holmgren and Andy Reid.

Clifford Ray: The Union native played 10 seasons in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls (1971-74) and the Golden State Warriors (1974-81). Ray was named to the 1972 NBA All-Rookie team, and led the NBA in rebounds per minute played in each of his first two seasons. He also won an NBA title in 1975 with Golden State.

Ray spent more than 20 years as an assistant coach in the NBA.

Tyler Thigpen: He was a standout quarterback at Fairfield Central and went on to play at Coastal Carolina. Thigpen went 30-8 as a starter and earned first-team All-America honors (AP, AFCA and Don Hansen) and was voted the Big South Conference Player of the Year in 2006.

Thigpen was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 2007 and played seven years in the NFL.