Morgan’s Anderson into Utah Sports HOF; Woodhall, Blair represent at Paralympics
Weber State runner Lindsey Anderson (10) participates in a collegiate race during her time as a Wildcat. Anderson is an inductee to the 2017 Hall of Fame class.
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Weber State runner Lindsey Anderson (10) participates in a collegiate race during her time as a Wildcat. Anderson is an inductee to the 2017 Hall of Fame class.
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- Hunter Woodhall, pictured here on Aug. 29, 2021, in the 100-meter dash, earned a bronze medal in the 400-meter race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021.
The Utah Sports Hall of Fame is set to get a dose of Northern Utah this year.
Morgan native and Weber State alum Lindsey Anderson has been selected for the Utah Sports Hall of Fame’s 2024 class, the organization announced Monday.
Anderson became the second Weber State alum to compete in the Olympics when she ran in the women’s steeplechase in 2008 at the Beijing Games. She finished second in the U.S. Olympic Trials that summer, qualifying her as WSU’s first summer Olympian.
Anderson adds the Utah Sports HOF to her honors in the Weber State and Big Sky Conference halls of fame. She’s now the third WSU alum to compete in the Olympics (joining medalists Billy Schuffenhauer 2002 and Damian Lillard 2021).
At WSU, she set school records in the steeplechase, the outdoor 10,000 meters and the indoor 5,000 meters. She was a two-time All-American and left Weber as the collegiate steeplechase record-holder.
She coached at Weber State from 2007-14, was the head coach at College of Southern Idaho for five years, and was an assistant coach at Missouri for one year. She returned to Weber State in 2023 as an assistant for men’s and women’s cross country, and track and field.
Joining Anderson in the 2024 Utah Sports Hall of Fame class: Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake player, 21-year MLS career); Kevin P. Gates (philanthropist), Craig Poole (BYU track coach), and Rod Tueller (longtime coach in Logan, at Utah State).
Those five will be honored at an induction ceremony on Sept. 9.
WOODHALL, BLAIR IN PARALYMPICS
Hunter Woodhall and David Blair will again represent Northern Utah at the Paralympics, this time the 2024 games in Paris.
Woodhall, the Syracuse High alum who runs the 100- and 400-meter races on blades, seeks gold after winning silver in Rio 2016 and bronze in Tokyo 2020/21. Woodhall’s wife, Tara Davis-Woodhall, won gold at the 2024 Olympics in the long jump, and the pair’s already-solid online following received a boost when the two went viral for their celebrations after her win.
Blair, an alum of Davis High and Weber State, throws the discus and won a gold medal in the Rio 2016 Paralympics.