Seven headed to YSU Hall of Fame

Zetts, Humphrey highlight 2017 class

Staff report

Tom Zetts (football) and Quin Humphrey (basketball) will be among the five athletes that Youngstown State University will induct into its Hall of Fame on Sept. 16.

The ceremony will be prior to the Penguins’ football game against Central Connecticut State at Stambaugh Stadium.

The Class of 2017 also includes: Brandon Caipen (baseball); Jessica Fraley (volleyball); Jay Payne (track and field); and Drs. Michael and Dianne Miladore (contributors).

Zetts was a four-year starter from 2004-07 and was an All-Gateway Football Conference Second-Team selection in 2007. He ended his career as the program’s all-time leader in touchdown passes (51), completions (653), passing yards (7,714), 200-yard passing games (13) and completion percentage (59.7).

Zetts also engineered the Penguins to back-to-back Gateway Football Conference championships in 2005 and 2006, and the NCAA Division I FCS semifinals in 2006.

A four-year letter-winner from 2003-07, Humphrey ranks ninth all-time in scoring and third in YSU’s Division I era. Humphrey, who was just the second player to lead the Horizon League in both scoring and rebounding in the same season (2005-06), ranks fourth with 370 career made free throws and sixth with 165 3-pointers.

The 2006-07 YSU Male Athlete of the Year, Humphrey was a two-time All-Horizon League First-Team selection, and was the first YSU Division I player to earn consecutive first-team all-conference honors. He scored 1,707 career points, grabbed 674 rebounds with 253 career assists.

Caipen, who played from 2003-06, was a two-time All-Horizon League First-Team selection as a junior and senior and an all-freshman team pick. He ranks in the top five in program history in career hits, runs, doubles, triples and games started.

Drafted in the 28th round of the 2006 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, Caipen helped the Penguins to the 2004 Horizon League Championship and the program’s first berth to the NCAA regional.

Fraley, who lettered from 2004-07 and was the 2007-08 YSU Female Athlete of the Year, was an All-Horizon League First-Team selection in 2007 and named to the Horizon League All-Freshman Team in 2004. She became the ninth player in program history to reach 1,000 career kills and ranks 12th all-time with 1,001.

Her 427 kills in 2007 are the fourth most in a single-season and she ranks sixth all-time with 3.09 kills per set for her career.

Payne was a four-year letter-winner for the Penguins from 1989-93. He set the outdoor track school mark in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.00 in 1993, a record that stood for 24 years. Payne also set the 400-meter hurdles record with a time of 52.11 in 1991 that lasted 26 years and set the indoor track 55-meter hurdles record with a time of 7.63.

The Miladores, the 2011 Penguins of the Year, have made contributions to Youngstown State and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics in numerous ways, including the Miladore Family Penguin Club Loge in Stambaugh Stadium.

They have endowed the Drs. Dianne B. & Michael J. Miladore Scholarship, which alternates between a male and female student-athlete who is interested in majoring in pre-medical studies.

Michael worked as a team physician for the Department of Athletics from 1989 to 2011 and been a member of the YSU President’s Council since 1997.

Dianne served on the Penguin Club Board of Trustees from 1992-97 and was the organization’s president from 1996-97, and she was appointed to be a member of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees in 2005.

Tickets to attend the ceremony are available by calling Emily Wollet at 330-941-7208.

The event in YSU’s Kilcawley Center begins at 10 a.m. with breakfast followed by the ceremony. The group will be presented at halftime of the Penguins’ football game against Central Connecticut State, which kicks off at 2 p.m.