WICHITA — The Kansas Sports Hall of Fame (KSHOF) inducted 12 new members as its Class of 2016 today (Oct. 2) including Pittsburg State University alum George Sweatt and former Gorilla assistant football coach Jerry Kill.

The KSHOF Class of 2016 includes: former Kansas State University baseball player and Washburn University baseball's career coaching wins leader Steve Anson; 1961 first-team All-American University of Kansas basketball player and three-time NBA All-Star Bill Bridges; Topeka native and 48-year broadcaster of the Fort Hays State Tigers, Kansas City Royals and KU Jayhawks Bob Davis; two-time Big 8/Big 12 Conference Player of the Year at KU and three-time WNBA All-Star Tameka Dixon; two-time KU track Al-American and four-minute miler Bill Dotson of Concordia; two-time KU pole vault All-American and U.S. Olympian Scott Huffman from Quinter; Cheney native and three-time national football coach of the year Jerry Kill; 14-time track All-American and two-time national champion at Emporia State Deandra Doubrava-McBride of Scott City; 1993 Kansas State All-American football player and three-time All-Big 8 selection Jamie Mendez III; Wichita native and first African-American high school basketball coach in Wichita public schools Lafayette Norwood; four-time Kansas State All-American and four-time Olympian Austra Skujyté; and first African-American athlete to letter at Pittsburg State and three-time Negro League World Series champion George Sweatt from Humboldt.
 
Sweatt was a Pitt State pioneer and one of the greatest baseball players in state history. The first African American to letter in any sport as Pitt State, Sweatt lettered in football, basketball and track & field following his service in the Army during World War I. Sweatt was a six-time all-conference performer in track.
 
Sweatt signed with the Kansas City Monarchs baseball club of the Negro Leagues while still in school at Pitt State and went on to play in seven professional seasons with the Monarchs and the Chicago American Giants. He played in the first four Negro Leagues World Series – in 1924 and 1925 with the Monarchs and in 1926 and 1927 with the American Giants – winning three Negro Leagues World Series championships.
 
Sweatt was inducted into the Pitt State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011.
 
A native of Cheney, Kansas, Jerry Kill's coaching career spans parts of three decades and numerous conference and national honors.
 
After graduating from Cheney High School in 1979, Kill attended Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, where he played linebacker for the Moundbuilders.
 
Kill began his coaching career as an assistant to Dennis Franchione at Pittsburg State University in 1985 and he served on the staff under fellow Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
inductee Chuck Broyles for the 1991 Pittsburg State National Championship team.
 
Kill's first head coaching position came in 1994 at Saginaw Valley State in Michigan before stints at Emporia State from 1999 to 2000, Southern Illinois from 2001 to 2007 and  Northern Illinois from  2008 to 2010.
 
In 2010, Kill was named the head coach at the University of Minnesota.
 
During his career, Kill won four conference championships while posting a career coaching record of 152-99. Kill was honored with National Coach of the Year awards three times and was named the 2014 Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year.
 
In 2004, Kill was inducted to the Southwestern College Athletic Hall of Fame and he was inducted to the Southern Illinois University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.
 
The twelve-person class raises the total number of Kansas Sports Hall of Fame inductees to 260. The Kansas Sports Hall of Fame is in its 55^th year of operation.