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Over 200 people filled the Moore Fitness to celebrate a decade of athletic excellence at Columbia International University. The September event was the first-ever ×ÔοÊÓƵ Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet as the Rams instituted the ×ÔοÊÓƵ Athletics Hall of Fame, inducted their first Hall of Fame honoree, and paid tribute to the 2012 men's soccer team and cross country teams, ×ÔοÊÓƵ’s first intercollegiate athletic teams.

Former ×ÔοÊÓƵ men's soccer player Daniel Mallard was chosen by the ×ÔοÊÓƵ Athletics Hall of Fame Committee as the first inductee into the Hall of Fame.Ìý

Mallard scored the first goal in ×ÔοÊÓƵ men's soccer history on Aug. 25, 2012, in a 1-0 win over Toccoa Falls (Ga.). The goal would be just the beginning of a decorated career as Mallard is still the all-time leading scorer in program history with 39 career goals and 93 points.Ìý

Mallard continues to use sports as a way to reach others for Christ, serving as the camp director for faith-based professional soccer team the and as the athletic director at in Wheaton, Illinois. Ìý
about the ×ÔοÊÓƵ Athletics Hall of Fame induction on the ×ÔοÊÓƵ Rams website.

The event also kicked-off a year-long celebration of ×ÔοÊÓƵ’s 100^th anniversary.

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