JACKSONVILLE – Two All-Americans, one record setting basketball player and most prolific softball pitcher in Gamecock history comprise the 2008-09 Class of the Jacksonville State University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Gary Angel, who led the Gamecocks to four-straight conference championships in basketball, Joe Billingsley, a two-time All-America offensive lineman, Ann Shelton, JSU's all-time strikeout leader in softball and Robert Lee Sanders, JSU's all-time leading scorer in basketball will be formally inducted on November 20.

Gary Angel became just the fourth player in Jacksonville State basketball history to score 1,000 points after finishing his four-year career with 1,193 points. He helped the Gamecocks win four-straight Alabama Collegiate Conference Championships, while earning All-ACC and All-Alabama honors as a senior. He averaged 18.7 points per game to lead Jacksonville State to a 19-5 record and the school's first-ever berth into the NAIA playoffs.

The Jacksonville, Ala., native finished his junior season by scoring 441 points to earn All-ACC honors as the Gamecocks went 15-11. He scored 203 points as a sophomore as JSU posted an 18-7 record, and Angel scored 109 points during his freshman campaign to lead the team to a 16-13 mark.

Joe Billingsley is considered one of the finest offensive linemen to ever play for the Gamecocks. A 6-foot-1, 290-pound player from Millport, Ala., Billingsley earned first-team All-America honors from the Associated Press and second-team honors from Football News as a sophomore in 1986 before garnering them again in 1988.

In his senior year, he anchored an offensive line that paved the way for the Gamecocks' Gulf South Conference leading 264 yards rushing per game, including a school-record 661 yards of total offense in a NCAA Division II playoff win over West Chester.

The Gamecocks posted a 10-2 record, won their first Gulf South Conference Championship in six years and earned a berth into the NCAA Division II playoffs for the first time since 1982, where JSU advanced to the semifinals. He finished his career by being selected to the Gulf South Conference's “Team of the Decade” for the 1980s.

Robert Lee Sanders is the all-time leading scorer in Gamecock basketball history with 1,983 points during his brilliant four-year career. He was named the Gulf South Conference Player of the Year after scoring a school single-season-record 658 points to lead the Gamecocks into the NCAA Elite Eight.

Sanders' name is also on top of the list in several other categories, including Most Field Goals Made with 697, Most Field Goals Attempted with 1,613, Most 3-pointers Attempted with 692 and Most 3-pointers Made with 269. He made 82 3-points in a season, which was also a school record.

As a junior, he led the Gamecocks to the NCAA Final 4 with a 27-6 record and was named the Most Valuable Player of the District of Columbia Classic, the Tom Roberson Classic, the Gulf South Conference Tournament and the NCAA South Region playoffs. The All-GSC selection scored 30 or more points three times and 20 or more points 16 times as he finished the season with a school-record 637 points, which he broke the next year.

Ann Shelton is considered by far one of the most dominating pitchers in Jacksonville State's softball history. Despite playing only two years, she holds the school's career strikeout record with 635 in only 418 innings in the circle.

As a senior, she set the single-season wins record by winning 28 games and also set the single-season record for strikeouts with 335 while posting a microscopic 0.71 earned run average, also a school record and the fourth highest total in the nation. Her 10.3 strikeouts per seven innings ranked second nationally.

Shelton pitched the Gamecocks to a 46-11 mark, including a 13-3 Atlantic Sun Record, as Jacksonville State earned a berth in the NCAA Regionals in the school's first year in Division I. She was named the Atlantic Sun Player of the Year, first-team All-A-Sun and the Most Valuable Player as the Gamecocks won the A-Sun Conference Tournament.

She also earned NCAA Academic All-America honors and Academic All-District accolades. As a junior in 1995, she set the JSU single-season strikeout record with 300, which included a school-record 19 strikeouts in seven innings versus Piedmont College. She posted a 0.73 ERA after pitching the team to a 32-16 record in JSU's final season in Division II. Proving it wasn't all about defense, her .400 batting average was third-best on the team that season.