About The MEAC | 11/6/2024 1:49:00 PM

BALTIMORE – Coppin State University announced today the seven individuals that will comprise the CSU Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Kiesha Brooks (women's basketball), Christina Epps (women's track & field/volleyball), Sidney Goodman (men's basketball), Adrian Price (baseball), Ian Roberts (men's track & field/cross country), Danny Singletary (baseball/men's basketball) and Gary Williams (PA Announcer for Basketball & Volleyball) make up the inductees.
 
The Class of 2025 will be inducted during Homecoming Weekend on Saturday, February 22, prior to the Eagles' doubleheader against Norfolk State.
 
Brooks earned First Team All-MEAC in all three of her seasons with the Eagles and was named the 2000 MEAC Player of the Year.  A two-time All-American by the Black College Sports Information Directors Association (BCSIDA), Brooks led the team in both scoring and rebounding all three years, as well as both assists and steals in her final two seasons.  Despite playing just three seasons at Coppin, she ranks second in school-history in scoring (1,537), third in rebounds (865), field goals and free throws as well as eighth in steals while holding career records in scoring average (19.2), which ranks fifth in MEAC history, and rebounding average (10.8).  Brooks held the school records for scoring, field goals and free throws upon graduation before they were broken by Rashida Suber ('08), who is in the CSU Hall of Fame. Averaging a double-double in all three of her seasons, she put up 16.6 points and 11.5 rebounds as a sophomore, followed by 20.0 points and 10.3 rebounds as a junior, and 20.9 points with 10.7 rebounds as a senior.
 
Epps was a six-time MEAC Champion and two-time USTFCCCA All-American in the triple jump, sweeping the conference crowns in both 2011 and 2014 while placing in the top 16 nationally both indoors and outdoors in 2014. After medaling in the event three times at the ECAC Championships, which included a 2012 Indoor Title, she also went on to represent the United States of America in the event at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.  After taking second at the US Olympic Trials, Epps finished 15^th overall at the Olympics with a leap of 14.01m (45' 11.75"). Epps still holds both the Coppin State and MEAC records in the event, both indoors (43' 2.50") and outdoors (43' 11.75"). She owns a personal-best in the triple jump of 14.18m (46' 6.25"). A two-sport athlete with the Eagles, Epps also played volleyball during her collegiate career and held the CSU single-match record for hitting percentage in a three-set match for 11 years.  Upon graduation, she also ranked among the top ten in blocks. Epps now serves as the Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance and Diversity & Inclusion at Swarthmore College after compliance stints at Coppin and Delaware State University.
 
A two-time First Team All-MEAC selection, Goodman earned MEAC All-Tournament Team honors in 1993, helping the Eagles to a MEAC Championship, and 1995 where the Eagles advanced to the NIT and defeated Saint Joseph's in the First Round. Goodman also earned Black College Sports All-America honors that season, his last with Coppin. He currently ranks eighth in CSU history in scoring (1,412) while leading the team in the category as a senior.  Goodman also sits second in steals, fifth in free throws and sixth in assists.  On February 18, 1995, he hit all 19 of his free throws in a win against North Carolina A&T, setting a school-record and the fifth-most in NCAA history without a miss. He is currently an assistant coach on Coppin's men's basketball team after serving as a women's basketball assistant and associate head coach at Coppin State, Towson and Maryland Eastern Shore.
 
Price was named the 1994 MEAC Player of the Year after leading all of NCAA Division I with a .474 batting average to go with a .730 on-base percentage and .516 on-base percentage. He also led the Eagles with 12 doubles, seven home runs and 39 RBI that season. Despite playing just two seasons at Coppin, he still ranks sixth with 14 home runs which was the school-record when he left the program, and still holds the school record with a .672 slugging percentage.  Price later served as an assistant coach with the program from 1999 to 2001 and 2006 to 2008.  He went on to play Semi Professional Baseball from 1992 to 2000.
 
Coppin's first men's NCAA All-American in any sport, Roberts earned the honor by finishing sixth in the 800m at the National Indoor Championships  in 1998. Roberts won both the MEAC Indoor & Outdoor Championships in the event in both 1997 and 1998. He still holds the CSU record in the 800m and held the MEAC record in the event for over a decade. After graduating from Coppin, he also won a pair of Big East Titles at St. John's and earned All-America accolades in the 800m in 1999. He also won the 1999 Caribbean Championships and was the first CSU athlete to compete at the Olympics, representing Guyana in the 800m at the 2000 Olympics. Also, a great student, Roberts was a 1998 CoSIDA Academic All-American and completed education programs at Coppin, St. John's, Morgan State, Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and an MBA at MIT's Sloan School of Management. In May 2023, he was named the Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent.
 
An All-MEAC standout in both baseball and basketball, Singletary was a First Team All-Conference selection on the diamond in both 1996 and 1997 while also earning All-Tournament Team honors in 1996. On the basketball court, he received Second Team and All-Tournament Team accolades in 1998.  The year prior, he scored a team-high 22 points in the 1997 NCAA Tournament victory over #2 South Carolina before following up with 13 points, six assists and six steals in the Second Round vs. Texas. Singletary still holds Coppin's single-season record for RBI and ranks seventh in batting average, fourth in triples, eighth in steals, second in on-base percentage and fifth in slugging. He signed a professional baseball contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 1998 and played as high as High Single-A for the South Bend Silver Hawks in 1999.  He later played independent baseball from 2000 to 2003.
 
The 'Voice of the Eagles' for 31 years, Williams began his tenure as Coppin's Public Address Announcer for both men's & women's basketball in 1993.  A native of Washington, D.C., Williams added volleyball to his repertoire when the program began playing their matches in the Main Arena of the Physical Education Complex.  During his 31 years, he has called more than 430 total victories at the West Baltimore campus between two different arenas. Williams voiced seven MEAC Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament Teams as well as 16 MEAC Regular Season Champions. Since the CIAA Tournament moved to Baltimore in 2022, Williams has served as the Tournament's PA Announcer and he has also announced for football, track & field, boxing and auto racing. Williams began announcing while in high school at Georgetown Day High School and also announced at his alma mater, Howard University, for seven years before taking over the microphone at Coppin. He concurrently serves as a Tour Narrator at Arlington National Cemetery, a role he's performed for the last five years.