Bryce Hayes
SEGUIN, Texas — Four decorated student-athletes comprise the 2024 Texas Lutheran Athletics Hall of Fame class that will be inducted this October representing four different sports, along with two new additions to the Leadership Wall of Honor. The TLU Athletics Hall of Fame is an elite group of alumni and coaches who demonstrated outstanding performance and achievement in athletic competition while representing Texas Lutheran University.
The four members of the 2024 Hall of Fame class hail from women’s track and field, football, volleyball and women’s golf. For the third straight year, Texas Lutheran Women’s Track and Field will have an inductee.
The newest members of the Texas Lutheran Athletics Hall of Fame are former TLU sprinter Monique Anderson ’14, former TLU women’s golfer Angela Aufderhaar (Hisey) ’10, former TLU quarterback Sean Salinas ’08, and former TLU volleyball player and sprinter Vanecia Spencer ’14. They will be joined in the class by former TLU sports information director Tim Clark ’94 and Tom Sedlacek ’74 – who will be enshrined in the TLU Athletics Leadership Wall of Honor.
The Class of 2024 will be honored in a ceremony on campus Saturday, October 26, 2024, and will be honored at halftime of the Homecoming football game between the Bulldogs and McMurry University. Kickoff is set for 4 PM.
Monique Anderson, Women’s Track & Field (2011-14)
Monique Anderson, was a six-time NCAA Women’s Track & Field All-American and led the Bulldogs to four consecutive conference team championships. Anderson’s six NCAA All-America awards were produced in the outdoor 100 in 2013 and 2014, the outdoor 200 in 2011 and 2012, the outdoor 4×100 relay in 2012, and the indoor 200 in 2014. She was fifth in the 200 in 2012, fifth in the 100 in 2014, sixth in the 4×100 in 2012, seventh in the indoor 200 in 2014, eighth in the 200 in 2011, and eighth in the 100 in 2013. The six All-America honors by Anderson are the third-most by any student-athlete in school history. Anderson shares third place with former track and field standout Taffey Gray. Anderson starred on TLU’s four consecutive conference women’s team championships (three in the American Southwest Conference, one in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference). Anderson was the 2013-14 TLU Women’s Student-Athlete of the Year. In her senior year at the SCAC Championships, she won the 100, 200 and anchored the 4×100 meter relay team to the conference title. She did the same thing – winning the 100, the 200, and anchoring the winning 4×100 relay – in her junior season when TLU competed in the American Southwest Conference. She won the 100-meter and the 200-meter dashes at the conference level in all four of her years at TLU. She is the only athlete in school history to win conference titles in the 100 and the 200 in four consecutive seasons. She was on conference-winning 4×100 relay teams three times. Anderson was the ASC Women’s Track Athlete of the Year in 2011 and 2012.
Angela Aufderhaar Hisey, Women’s Golf (2007-10)
Angela Aufderhaar Hisey, led TLU to the 2007 American Southwest Conference Championship and to its first-ever NCAA Division III National Championship appearance. Aufderhaar majored in psychology and entered an Academic All-America nomination and First Team Academic All-District award with a 3.53 grade point average. She was named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District VI First Team for the college division Women’s At-Large program, and she was selected TLU Co-Female Student-Athlete of the Year. In 2009, Aufderhaar was the ASC women’s golf individual runner-up. She was a 2007 and 2009 ASC All-Conference First Team honoree and a 2008 and 2010 ASC All-Conference Second Team award winner. Aufderhaar was twice named the ASC Women’s Golf Sportsmanship Athlete of the Year (in 2009 and 2010). Aufderhaar was a three-time Academic All-ASC selection and lettered all four years in women’s golf. Aufderhaar was the team’s top finisher (tied for 68th) at the 2007 national tournament. In 2010, she won two tournaments and posted individual finishes of second, third, and fourth in three other tournaments. In 2008 and 2010, Aufderhaar was named to the National Golf Coaches Association All-West Region Team for NCAA Division III. Hisey continues to serve TLU and the TLU Golf program as an assistant coach.
Sean Salinas, Football (2002-05)
Sean Salinas, was a four-year letterman and served as the Bulldogs starting quarterback for three seasons (in 2003, 2004 and 2005). Salinas is the school record-holder for career passing yards (7,558), School single-season passing yards (2,800), and passing yards in a single-game (519) as well as the school record-holder for total offense in a single-game (505) and for total offense in a career (7,658). Salinas ranks second in career TD passes (58) and is still the holder of six school passing records. Salinas led TLU to its then-best finish in the American Southwest Conference (third, in 2004). The Bulldogs went 12-8 in his last two years as starting quarterback with two narrow losses (in 2004 and 2005) to 2004 national runner-up and 2005 national title contender Mary Hardin-Baylor. In those two games versus UMHB, Salinas threw for 589 yards and six touchdowns. From 2003-05, Salinas and TLU Hall of Famer Jason Trahan worked together to break 19 different school records, including team records for single-season passing yards and touchdown passes. The Salinas/Trahan tandem connected on a 98-yard touchdown pass, the longest play from scrimmage in school history, during a come-from-behind win over East Texas Baptist in 2004. The pair connected on passing plays a total of 92 times, tallying 2,098 yards and 16 touchdowns.
Vanecia Spencer, Women’s Track and Field & Volleyball (2011-14)
Vanecia Spencer, a dual-sport standout, was a two-time All-American in women’s track & field and an all-conference performer in women’s volleyball. In 2014, Spencer was named the SCAC’s Women’s Track Athlete of the Year. She won the award after doing a little bit of everything at the conference championships that year. She claimed victories in the 400-meter dash and the triple jump, second-place finishes in the 100 and the 200 and a third-place finish in the high jump. She ran on the first-place 4×100 relay team and the second-place 4×400 relay team. Overall, she scored 28.5 points to lead the Bulldogs to their fifth straight conference championship. She was a member of three of those conference championship teams. In 2013, Spencer collected the second All-American award of her career when she finished eighth in the indoor 400-meter dash at the NCAA Division III Championships. That All-American honor came after her 2012 honor, which she earned as a member of TLU’s sixth-place 4×100 meter relay team at the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships. At the 2013 ASC Championships, Vanecia won the 400 and anchored the winning 4×100 relay. In the 2012 ASC Championships, she won her first 400-meter title. In 2011, Vanecia was named the American Southwest Conference Women’s Volleyball Newcomer of the Year and to the All-Conference First Team. Spencer led TLU to a third-place finish in the ASC West Division and to an ASC Championship Tournament berth. That year, she recorded team-highs in kills, kills per set, total attacks, and hitting percentage. She added 34 total blocks.
TEXAS LUTHERAN ATHLETICS LEADERSHIP WALL OF HONOR CLASS OF 2024
TIM CLARK
Tim Clark has been a pivotal part of Seguin and the Texas Lutheran community for over two decades. Clark came to Texas Lutheran as a scholarship student-athlete for the TLU tennis program before becoming Texas Lutheran’s first full-time Sports Information Director in 1998, serving in that capacity for 23 years. During his tenure, Clark attended and worked roughly 3,000 TLU sporting events. Clark, a pioneer in the SID profession, earned three Sports Information Department of the Year honors from his peers – one from the American Southwest Conference (ASC, 2009) and two from the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (2020-21). He oversaw the Texas Lutheran’s return to football in 1998, the first games at both Bulldog Stadium and Ed Kruse Stadium and in his final year of tenure helped guide TLU athletics through the COVID-19 pandemic – handling game-day management, statistics, public address announcing, video streaming, and other duties for 91 home games and events over a 106-day period. Clark also received the TLU Staff Person of the Year Award twice, once from the TLU Alumni Association and once from the TLU Student Government Association. Following his resignation from the SID position, Clark continues to dutifully serve Texas Lutheran as Associate Registrar, Chair of the Staff Association, and as a member of the Texas Lutheran Hall of Fame/Wall of Honor Committee.
TOM SEDLACEK
Originally from Luverne, Minnesota, Tom Sedlacek, received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from Texas Lutheran College in 1974. He has continued to give back to his alma mater in various capacities. Sedlacek has been a staunch supporter of Texas Lutheran softball and baseball as a donor and as a fan and helped establish a scholarship at Texas Lutheran on behalf of the Sedlacek family. Sedlacek has and continues to serve TLU as a member of the Alumni Board Committee as well as the Hall of Fame/Wall of Honor and “Dogs on the Green” Golf Tournament Committees. Tom has been an ardent supporter of TLU sporting events and is at every home football game where he generously donates his time as a member of the chain crew and donated the down box that is used for all TLU home football games. Tom is long-time employee of Bernard-Donegan Insurance Agency in Seguin, a long-time member of the Knights of Columbus and an important community leader.