 Our sixth inductee is Dave Livermore. Dave was a two-time team MVP and four-year member of the men's golf team from 1996 to 2000. As a junior he became the first Mustang to qualify for the ECAC Championship while as a senior he posted a 79.1 stroke average. The first thing that comes to mind was David was when we went to sesquihanna and he said if I shoot over 90 you can shoot me and Bill the other boy on the team said go ahead and shoot him coach that's the first thing comes to my mind because he never thought he would shoot that bad in college but comes to realization that college is not easy in any sport. He did have a lasting effect because of the way he handled himself even though he was a freshman my year he was mature as a freshman he handled himself on the court with the values that I that I want and I think that was good we had a great relationship we got a long good we carried on but we were serious about the game and I think that's what it is you have to you have to have that balancing act you know you got to balance the competition with attitude. If I recruited guys like David then I knew we would have a great program and that's what I've done every year now but he was the leader of that you got to have good golf players who understand the game of course course management club management he had it he had it so that really helped me for me as a coach he is my benchmark I look at my recruits I want them to be like him you know there's no doubt I want them to be successful I want them to get good grades I want them to get a career and then I want them to come back to the school I wanted a good environment I want them to have a good read the good experience I mean he's a true student athlete and that helps that helped a tremendous amount where he was able to handle the situation being a freshman and then going into a senior year and graduating on time so his athletic ability and his academic drive his motivation to earn a degree and perform on the golf course. From the class of 2001 it is my honor to welcome Dave Livermore into the Dick Watts Athletics Hall of Fame. Thank you very much I'm extremely honored to be selected at Stevenson University Hall of Fame those pictures were amazing. This is my first time back on campus since I graduated and I am extremely blown away as to where Stevenson University has grown to and what it is today. I know Coach Adams and Coach Raymer had a really hard time getting hold of me it took a while for that phone call but I was definitely shocked when they did call me so. Coach Adams took us on a tour today of the facilities and they are absolutely amazing it was kind of weird sitting at the stadium today watching the football game thinking that used to be the Colts training facility and there was Ravens training facility and it's our facility but that guy back there my brother used to sit in the woods behind the field goals and catch footballs and steal them while the Colts were practicing during training camp so to be sitting up there thinking that my little brother my older brother was up there was pretty wild. Even though I haven't been on campus in almost 20 years now I was getting definitely a lot of updates on the college my mom kept me updated whenever when the school bought the football facility when they got the women's ice hockey team I actually got a newspaper clipping from my mom about the women's hockey team see my mom's from upstate New York and ice hockey is in her blood so and I played hockey in high school so she definitely had to keep me posted on all those news on all that news next thing I have to apologize to coach Reimer freshman year we were really bad freshman year we he watched a lot of really bad golf I would say we were probably more like a the group of caddy chef from Caddyshack than we were a golf team we were it was pretty ugly and coach coach Reimer's I would say was probably like Rodney Dangerfield from Caddyshack you can hear him you can actually like picture him saying hey you scratched my anchor freshman year we didn't have golf shirts we were just told to go out and buy golf shirts buy green golf shirt and that's all we had we didn't have enough golf bags for the entire golf team so some of us had them some of us didn't that wasn't necessarily a bad thing because the the golf shirts that we had were pretty ugly I think they're a lot better now so some of it was actually like everybody was happy to not have a golf bag at that point because they weren't necessarily the best-looking but we were happy to be on the golf course we had a lot of fun out of the golf course with the crew that we had the van rides and everything that we did it was we had a blast freshman year though we would show up to tournaments and we got absolutely zero respect McDaniel college now Western or West Maryland college down McDaniel College or your college and some of the other colleges didn't respect us whatsoever they definitely thought that they were all better than us that's all started to change I'd say my junior and senior year the whole team has all together individually and as a team we all started to play better and all of a sudden we went from being finishing last to where we had we're in the top five we were top five to top three and we started to turn that whole thing around and they actually started to respect us and they had to think about us when it came to turning both on the as a team wise and also when it came to our individual scores as to who was gonna who was gonna be in that top five or top ten as an individual it really started to change we had some other folks my buddy Lance from Cowbert Hall he came my junior year and everybody really started to come together and get the program going that we have an absolute blast I truly missed those van rides to the tournaments we had a ball in the entire way coach Raymer and coach Allen coach Raymer it was my coach freshman year and senior year and then coach Allen my sophomore and junior year they were there the entire way supporting us 100% and pushing us and wanting us to keep on getting better so thank you very much coach Raymer there are three people I would definitely like to thank two of what you're here tonight both my mom and my brother unfortunately my dad passed away nine years ago and can't be here today but both my mom and dad they supported me 100% and everything I did whether it was golf they drove me to golf tournaments wherever they were they took me up to the ECACs when I qualified for that and then or if it was ice hockey practice at 5 a.m. didn't matter what it was they were 100% of the time and then my older brother he introduced me to the game he taught me everything about the game and a lot about the game I always wanted to beat him on the golf course he's six years older than me so I was definitely always trying to just keep up with him he's the best big brother you could ever ask for one quick story from the ECACs when I qualified for that my parents came to a lot of tournaments but there was really one rule that I had on the golf course when they they came I I loved them to come to the golf tournaments but I didn't like them being close so they always had to stay at least a half a hole ahead of me they couldn't be like right next to me at all at the ECACs when I qualified I'm on the 16th hole and I was playing pretty well and all of a sudden I look up and my dad's walking around with Coach Allen and he's on the T-Box on the 16th hole wasn't with us I don't say anything right away I just kind of hit my tee shot and I look up at him afterwards and I just give him that look and he just ends up he knows what that look was and he just slowly walks away all he ever wanted to do was be right there with us the entire time so that was just one of those classic stories and my dad just always wanted to be there be a part of everything and wanted to share that story to be here today is truly an honor to see where the university is to see where the athletic department is and also see where the golf program has come to now it's definitely makes me proud to be a part of the both the beginning of the program building of the program and also to be an alumni of Stevenson University so thank you very much