Alumni Named to 2025 CMS Hall of Fame

Two Harvey Mudd College alumni will become the newest members of the Ted Ducey Hall of Fame at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps when the Class of 2025 is honored on Sunday, Jan. 19 at Roberts Pavilion as part of the Hall of Fame weekend.

The 12 Athenas and Stags, include Gary Simon ’98, a member of the Swimming and Water Polo teams, and Nicole Esclamado Feola ’07, a soccer player who earned induction in 2024 but will be honored with the 2025 class.

Nicole Esclamado Feola ’07 (biology), Soccer

Esclamado Feola was a first-team All-SCIAC and second-team All-West Region selection as a senior in 2006, serving as a team captain and earning team MVP honors for the CMS women’s soccer team. Her efforts helped the Athenas to the SCIAC Tournament championship in the first year of the tournament’s existence, earning CMS an NCAA Division III bid. Esclamado had a standout role in the SCIAC postseason title, converting the clinching penalty kick in a wild 15-14 shootout in the semifinals against Pomona-Pitzer in the semifinals, and then scoring the tying goal in a comeback 2-1 win over Redlands in the championship. She finished her senior season with 10 goals and five assists, giving her 25 goals and 14 assists in her career.

Gary Simon ’98 (engineering), swimming and water polo

Simon competed for the Stags swimming team for two seasons and won the NCAA Division III Swimmer of the Year both times. He broke NCAA records three times, once in the 100-yard breaststroke and twice in the 200-yard individual medley, and set four CMS records, which also included the 200-yard breaststroke and the 100-yard butterfly. His 200-yard IM time would have placed him fourth at the NCAA Division I Championship; it held up as the national record for 15 years and lasted as the CMS record for 26 years. His efforts in 1998, which included national titles in the 200 IM and the 200 breast, helped CMS to a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Division III Championships. He also earned the SCIAC Athlete of the Year Award in water polo as a senior as well as first-team All-America and first-team WWPA honors, while leading the Stags to a pair of SCIAC Championships.

The other inductees into the Ted Ducey CMS Hall of Fame Class of 2025 are Bob Donlan (CMC ’02 – Basketball), Elena Goss (Scripps ’96 – Diving), Glenn Grossman (CMC ’72 – Football, Baseball), Doug Jones (CMC ’85 – Swimming), Kristin Lim (CMC ’13 – Tennis), George R. Roberts (CMC ’66 P ’93 – Exemplary Service and Support for CMS Athletics), Madi Shove (Scripps ’13 – Lacrosse, Soccer), Steve Uejio (CMC ’00 – Baseball), Wil Wilkins (CMC ’73 – Football, Baseball) and Warren Wood (CMC ’15 – Tennis).

CMS will also celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2015 NCAA Division III National Championship Men’s Tennis Team, with the members of that championship team also returning to campus.