The following is the second in a series of profiles of individuals who will comprise the Slippery Rock University Athletic Hall of Fame's 27th induction class. Induction ceremonies will be held Saturday, September 18, prior to The Rock's home football game vs. West Chester University.

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Mike Hambrick, a three-time Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference track and field discus champion and 15-time National Masters champion, will be one of six individuals included in the Slippery Rock University Athletic Hall of Fame's 27th induction class.

Hambrick won PSAC titles in 1978, 1981 and 1984. The latter two seasons, he also competed in NCAA Division III national championship events. He garnered an eighth-place national finish in 1981 and a No. 10 national finish in 1984.

Hambrick also earned a berth in the 1979 NCAA competition and was a member of SRU's national championship team that season.

Owner of both a bachelor's (1984) and master's (1993) degree from Slippery Rock, Hambrick followed up his collegiate track and field success with the National Masters titles and both a runner-up finish in the discus and a third-place finish in the pentathlon at the 1999 IAAF Masters World Championships.

Most recently, Hambrick has made his mark as a golfer. He has qualified for Re/Max regional competitions three times since 2006 and finished in the top 20 at the 2009 Re/Max World Long Drive Championship Senior Division event.

A four-year letterwinner in track and field and one-year member of the football team at Slippery Rock, Hambrick was a 2006 inductee into the Lawrence County Sports Hall of Fame.

Hambrick is a 1977 graduate of New Castle High School and has worked as a counselor at North Allegheny Senior High School since 1995. He has been listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers on three occasions, received the 2006 YWCA Greater Pittsburgh Racial Justice Award, is a sponsor of the North Allegheny Multicultural Student Union and a member of the Marcia Martin Diversity Council.

Hambrick and his wife Sony reside in Pittsburgh and are the parents of three children, all of whom have followed in their father's footsteps and attended Slippery Rock.

Hambrick will be joined in the SRU Athletic Hall of Fame's 2010 class by longtime western Pennsylvania athletic administrator Jack Fullen, women's basketball all-time leading scorer and No. 1 all-time rebounder Heather Kearney, three-time football All-America quarterback Randy McKavish, baseball All-America shortstop Craig White and three-time golf All-American John Zack.

The 2010 SRU Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held prior to The Rock's Sept. 18 home football game vs. West Chester University (7 p.m. kickoff). Ceremonies will start with a social hour at 2:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 3:30 p.m. Inductees will also be honored during halftime of the football game at N. Kerr Thompson Stadium.

Tickets for the Hall of Fame induction are $35 each and can be purchased from Pearl Shaffer, Assistant to the Athletic Director, 1 Morrow Way–Room 101 Morrow Field House, Slippery Rock, Pa. 16057.

For more information, please call Ms. Shaffer at 724.738.2768 or via email at pearl.shaffer@sru.edu.