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COLUMBUS- Along with getting a new job this fall at ESPN, Bellaire native Joey Galloway will be inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame.
This fall, 14 new members will be enshrined in the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame, with 12 former student-athletes and two coaches among the honorees. The class will be inducted Sept. 18 at a dinner and introduced to the public at halftime of the Ohio State home football game against Northern Illinois Sept. 19.
The 2015 class includes Tim Anderson (football), Justin Cook (men’s soccer), Terence Dials (men’s basketball), Lara Dickenmann (women’s soccer), Natalia Diea (women’s diving), Annabelle Fago (rowing), Joey Galloway (football), Therese Hession (women’s golf coach), J Jaggers (wrestling), Perry Martter (wrestling), Teresa Meyers (pistol), Dan Seimetz (baseball), Jim Tressel (football coach) and Paul Tilley (men’s hockey).
The hall of fame was created in 1977 and has inducted 285 men through 2014. Anderson and Galloway will bring the total football players in the hall to 115. Cook will be the third men’s soccer player inducted and Dials will be the 37th men’s basketball player enshrined. Jaggers and Martter will bring the total wrestlers enshrined to 16, Seimetz is the 21st baseball player headed to the hall of fame and Tilley will be the fifth men’s hockey Buckeye to join the hall, while Tressel will be the 13th coach (sixth football coach) to be inducted.
Galloway
Football, 1991-94
Galloway was a four-year letterwinner at wide receiver for the Buckeyes from 1991-94. He played in 36 games and started 27 times at split end. He finished his career as one of the great receivers in school history with 108 receptions for 1,894 yards and 19 touchdowns, totals that would be much higher had he not missed all but two games of the 1992 season because of injury. He still ranked in the Top 5 in school history in receptions (fourth), receiving yards (fourth) and touchdowns (second) while averaging more than 17 yards per catch. A two-time All-Big Ten Conference honoree and a Third Team Associated Press All-American in 1993, Galloway capped his career with eight receptions for 146 yards and two touchdowns against Alabama in the 1995 Citrus Bowl.
Galloway was the eighth overall pick in the 1995 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks. He amassed 701 receptions for 10,950 yards and 77 touchdowns during a 15-year NFL career including all-rookie team honors in 1995. He also had 1,349 punt return yards and, in addition to playing for Seattle, he played for Dallas, Tampa Bay, New England and Washington.
Galloway was an outstanding student. He was honored with a National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Scholarship in 1994 just the 15th Buckeye in school history to achieve the honor and he was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree who majored in marketing. A native of Bellaire, Ohio, Galloway lives in Columbus and is a college football analyst and studio host for ESPN.