FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Marshall Lovett was inducted into the Campbell University Athletics Hall of Fame during a special ceremony Saturday night in conjunction with the Seventy-First High School 50th reunion.  Membership in the Hall of Fame, which began recognizing Campbell athletic greats in 1984, now numbers 81.
 
A native of Fayetteville, Lovett was a three-sport standout at Seventy-First High in football, basketball, and track & field.  He earned all-city & county honors on the hardwood for Coach Charles Babb's team and placed third in the state 3-A track championships in the high jump.
 
Lovett entered Campbell in the fall of 1972 and immediately made an impact on the Fighting Camels' basketball team.  He was named NAIA All-American as a senior after he led his team to back-to-back 20-win seasons in 1975 and 1976. A point guard, he led Coach Danny Roberts' Camels to a school-record 25 wins (with just six losses) during his junior season and followed that with a 23-4 overall record in his senior year when he was named NAIA third-team All-American. 
 
He scored 1064 points just his career, averaged 13.9 points and five steals per game as a senior, and was named Campbell's Outstanding Male Athlete in 1976.  He was the ninth player to reach 1,000 career points in Campbell's senior college history and is still one of only 30 Camels to hit that mark since the 1961-62 season.
 
In addition, he set a school track & field record with a 6-foot, 6-inch, high jump.
 
Following graduation, Lovett had professional basketball tryouts with the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, and San Antonio Spurs.  When his playing career ended, he earned an additional degree in respiratory therapy from Wake Technical Community College.  His work in the medical field included stops at Duke Medical Center and Wake Medical Center.
 
After relocating from Raleigh to New York City, Lovett contracted a severe case of meningitis, which caused permanent blindness.  He now resides in Springfield, Mass.
 
Campbell Athletics Hall of Fame Members
1984
Gaylord Perry
Jim Perry
1985
Fred Emmerson
Richard Murphy
1986
Earl Smith
Bob Vernon
1987
Cal Koonce
Len Maness
1988
Jim Bromley
Jay Overton
Don Prince
Dr. Mike Reidy
1989
Archie Brigman
Jim Gurkin
Dr. Don Laird
1990
Sam Brewer
Rob Cole
George "Buck" Hardee
1991
Howard Auman
Walter Deal
1992
George Graybill
Charles Koonce
Bruce Shelley
Don Whaley
Billy Williams
1993
Ronda Mueller Langdon
Billy Mason
James Sessoms
Gary Woodward
1994
Wayne Dale
Marion Hargrove
1995
Hank Currin
Fred McCall
Fred Whitfield
1996
Sam Bishop
Antionette Matthews Flowers
Horace "Bones" McKinney
1997
James "Catfish" Cole
John T. Johnson
1998
Ollie Harrell
Frances Lloyd
1999
Ken Faulkner
Regina McKeithan Wadsworth
2000
Dave Amsler
Wendell Carr
2001
Betty Jo Clary
Hargrove B. Davis (posthumously)
Clarence Grier
2002
Bob Etheridge
Gary Hobgood
Bill Holleman
Carl Ivarsson
James Nisbet
Tammy Brown Tew
2003
Barry Howard
Danny Roberts
Dr. Pete Wish
2004
Willard B. Harris
Leanne Plum Mann
Orville Peterson
2005
Bobby Bowie
Janet Wooten Collins
Captain Eugene "Red" McDaniel
2006
David Doyle
John Marshbanks
2007
Denelle Hicks
Maria Maldonado
Ernie White
2009
Juha Miettinen
2010
Toni Siikala
Joe Spinks
2011
Brad Childress
Denise Ford Shipman
2012
Sam Staggers
2015
Brad Fritsch
Kylie Pratt
Bill Young
2017
Bob Burke
Anthony Cox
Wanda Watkins
2022
Marshall Lovett