NORFOLK, Va. – The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) announced today [December 18, 2020] that Bethune-Cookman University's Lauren McCoy and Allen Suber are among the five members of the 2021 Hall of Fame Class. The inductees will be enshrined in a virtual ceremony during the week of the 2021 MEAC Basketball Tournament.

The MEAC Hall of Fame highlights former student-athletes, coaches, university and conference administrators, as well as special contributors, who have enriched the legacy of the conference since its inception in 1970. Enshrinees were selected by an 11-person committee made up of administrators and representatives from member institutions.
 
The inaugural Hall of Fame class was inducted on May 29, 1981 during a 10-year anniversary banquet in Greensboro, N.C. Since its establishment, the MEAC Hall of Fame has enshrined 158 people, including the Class of 2021.

"Once again, Wildcat Athletics makes history in the MEAC as Lauren McCoy and Allen Suber have risen to the top of the mountain as student-athletes in the sports of softball and football respectively," said B-CU Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics Lynn W. Thompson. "The B-CU nation will forever cherish the exploits of these outstanding Wildcats who 'Entered to Learn and Departed to Serve' with championships earned and now Hall of Fame credentials by their names." 

McCoy, a 2016 inductee into the Bethune-Cookman Athletics Hall of Fame, McCoy recorded three 20-win seasons in the circle as Bethune-Cookman softball became a MEAC dynasty and made NCAA history in 2005.

That year, she led the Lady Wildcats to the NCAA Super Regional (the first time an HBCU advanced out of the regional round), winning the Gainesville Regional and going toe-to-toe with Cat Osterman in a 1-0 defeat to Texas after earning the MEAC's first-ever at-large bid to the NCAA field. A three-time First Team All-MEAC honoree (2003-05),

McCoy threw five no-hitters in her career, including two perfect games, and she had an ERA of 1.70 or lower in each of her three seasons. McCoy ended her B-CU career with 456 strikeouts and 28 shutouts.

Suber, the 2002 and 2003 MEAC Offensive Player of the Year, was a First Team All-MEAC honoree at quarterback in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

The two-time All-American was also a finalist for the Walter Payton Award, and he led the Wildcats to the 2002 MEAC championship and two appearances in the NCAA Division I FCS playoffs (2002, 2003). Suber currently ranks first all-time in program history in rushing touchdowns, second in rushing yards and fifth in both passing yards and passing touchdowns.

During Suber's time under center as architect of head coach Alvin Wyatt Sr.'s offense, Bethune-Cookman went 42-15. He was was recently named to the MEAC's 50^th Anniversary All-Time Football Team.

They join Rosina Pearson, Lloyd "Tank" Johnson (deceased), Cy McClairen, J.D. Hall (deceased), Amber Jackson, Rashean Mathis, Nick Collins, Alvin Wyatt Sr.  and Lynn Thompson as BCU's representation in the MEAC Hall of Fame.