CLEVELAND, Ohio - Paul Hames, Ayman Labib and Jay Longsworth were all inducted into the CSU Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday night, while, Dr. Sue Ziegler was presented with an Honorary Achievement Award.
Hames (men's soccer; 1984-87), Labib (men's diving; 1989-92) and Longsworth (men's soccer; 1981-84) made up the 40th athletics Hall of Fame class.
Hames was a four-time letterwinner in men’s soccer at CSU and helped the team to regular season conference titles in 1984 and 1986. He ranks third in CSU history in career matches (76) and games started (74), fifth in assists (26) and game-winning goals (11) and ninth in points (80). A first team all-conference selection in 1984, 1986 and 1987, Hames is one of three Vikings with at least 25 goals and 25 assists in a career.
As a senior, Hames led the AMCU in scoring and ranked 22nd in the nation with 37 points, including a team-high 13 goals and 11 assists. He is the only player in CSU history to lead the team in assists three times, dishing out six in 1984 and 1986 and 11 in 1987. Hames had one of his best games against Stetson in 1987 as he had a hand in all five goals in a 5-2 win, scoring three goals and dishing out two assists.
A two-time All-Ohio selection (1984, 1987) and a second team All-Mideast pick in 1984 and 1987, Hames was member of the 1988 Canadian Olympic Team and a first round pick of the NASL’s Vancouver Whitecaps in 1988.
Labib lettered four times in diving and was named CSU’s Most Outstanding Swimmer and Diver in 1991. He won the Penn-Ohio Championship in the 1-meter and 3-meter boards in 1990 and 1991 after capturing the title on the 1-meter board in 1989. Labib was also the 1-meter champion at the Eastern Championships in 1992 and was named diver of the meet in 1991 and 1992.
As a sophomore, Labib broke a 13-year old record on the 1-meter board and also broke a nine-year record on the 3-meter board which he later eclipsed his senior year with a score of 582.20 on the 1-meter and 567.40 on the 3-meter. That same year, Labib also broke the 3M pool record at Buffalo with a score of 318.30 and the 1M pool record at Toledo with a score of 304.50.
After finishing his collegiate career, Labib went on to compete and win the national 1M championship in Cairo, Egypt in 1994. Labib also captured a silver medal at the African Games in Zimbabwe in 1995 and qualified as a member of the Egyptian Olympic team for the Atlanta Games in 1996.
Longsworth lettered three years as CSU’s goalkeeper before his senior year was cut short due to injury after he posted two shutouts and allowed just three goals in five games. A first team All-Ohio selection as a sophomore and junior, Longsworth played every minute of his first 39 career games with the streak coming to an end due to 100-degree weather and a case of the flu.
He was also a two-time All-Mideast selection, including a first team pick in 1983. As a freshman, Longsworth set a school record with 2,025 minutes played and CSU freshmen records with 107 saves and eight shutouts, leading the Vikings to a school-record 14 wins. Longsworth ranks second in CSU history in goals against average (1.07), saves (311) and shutouts (26) and third in games played (63) among goalkeepers. Longsworth went 38-17-8 in goal for the Vikings during his career.
Longsworth, who was drafted by the MISL’s Baltimore Blast in 1984, had a school record 10 shutouts in 1983.
Dr. Ziegler was hired in 1972 as a faculty member and to begin the CSU women’s swim team, which she coached for six years. After receiving her doctorate in sport psychology from WVU in 1978, she accepted a full-time teaching position in the HPERD department. She also served as a university administrator for 10 years (associate dean of the college of graduate studies and later as associate provost for the university).
During her 36 years at CSU, she was an advocate for Title IX compliance across the university and was a strong proponent for women’s sports. Dr Ziegler’s area of expertise was sport psychology and she worked with many coaches, athletes and teams on improving their performance. She was part of a tour of sports psychologists to East Germany & the Soviet Union in 1989, working with select national team and university coaches. She participated in a similar tour to Brazil in 1980.
