EDINBURG, Texas – The University of Texas-Pan American Department of Intercollegiate Athletics inducted former track and field and cross country coach Reid Harter, former baseball players Ron Edquist and Jesse Trinidad, former men's golfer Mike Brisky and former women's track and field star Monica Wesley Swift into the Hall of Fame on Saturday at the UTPA Ballroom.
 
The department also inducted former UTPA President Dr. Ralph F. Schilling into the Hall of Honor. 
 
Reid Harter
 
Harter led the track and field and cross country teams to unparalleled success during his 11 years (1985-96) as head coach, winning five conference championships between 1985 and 1996. The women's cross country team won four American South Conference titles in a row and a Sun Belt Conference championship in 1995.
 
Under his tutelage, thrower Delilah Johnson won 14 individual championships and runner Nancy Mireles won 11. Both earned Outstanding Performer honors at conference meets as well. Johnson advanced to the NCAA Division I national championships three times while runner Rene Guillen went twice and runner Elizabeth Ortega and jumper Monica Wesley [Swift], who is also getting inducted this year, went once.
 
Harter's teams also posted 11 second-place finishes in conference meets.
 
Harter left the Broncs during the summer of 1996 to go into private business in the Pacific Northwest.
 
Harter earned his bachelor's degree at Oklahoma State University and a master's at the University of Southern California. He ran for an Oklahoma State cross country team that won the Big Eight title and finished number seven nationally.
 
In 1974, Harter captured a professional national championship when he set a record for the National 30-Kilometer Championship. He also competed on the United State track team that ran in Puerto Rico and finished second to Mexico in the team standings.
 
Harter ran 13^th out of over 2,000 runners in the 1974 Boston Marathon with a personal best of 2:19:12.
 
Harter coached as an assistant at New Mexico Junior College before becoming the head coach at Barton County Community College and then Blinn Junior College before taking over at Texas A&I in Kingsville, where he coached national champions in track.
 
Harter's wife, Portia, is a teacher. His children are Eamonn and Kersti.
 
Ron Edquist
 
Edquist pitched for the Broncs baseball team from 1973 through 1976.
 
He pitched a no-hitter against Dallas Baptist in 1975 and one-hitters in 1974, 1975 and 1976.
 
Edquist received South Central Regional All-Tournament accolades in 1976, and holds the program record for career pitching wins with 38. He is also first in games started (54), second in complete games (34), second in innings pitched (331), fourth in strikeouts (285) and tenth in ERA (1.93).
 
In 1973, Edquist was 5-2 with a team low 0.75 ERA. 
 
In 1974, Edquist was 9-2 and ranked second on the team in strikeouts with 64.
 
In 1975, Edquist was 11-2 with a 1.71 ERA and led the team with 92 strikeouts.   
 
After graduating, Edquist played for the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings (Gulf States League, Class A) in 1976 and the McAllen Dusters (Lone Star League, Class A) in 1977. Edquist picked up three wins with the WhiteWings while allowing just 24 hits in 26 innings. In his time with the Dusters, Edquist recorded one win while striking out 11 in 12 innings.
 
He served as an assistant coach for the Los Fresnos High School softball team before becoming the head coach in 1995.
 
Jesse Trinidad
 
Trinidad was a left-handed pitcher for the Broncs baseball team from 1974 through 1976.
 
Trinidad holds the NCAA Division I record for most shutouts with 14. During his time with the Broncs, he pitched three one-hitters, one in 1974 and two in 1976. He pitched seven shutouts in 1976, ranking him second in the nation.
 
Trinidad led the Broncs in strikeouts in 1974 with 72. He was also third on the team with a 1.74 ERA.
 
In 1975, Trinidad was 7-1 with a 2.27 ERA and was second on the team in shutouts with four.
 
Trinidad ranks third on the Broncs' all-time wins list (30), third in complete games (20), fifth in ERA (1.46), seventh in strikeouts (217) and tenth in innings pitched (234.2).
 
He went on to play for the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings (Gulf States League, Class A) in 1976, going 4-1 with a 2.25 ERA over the course of eight games (seven starts). His success there led him to a professional career in Mexico.
 
When he was done playing, Trinidad returned to the Valley and eventually became the head baseball coach at Brownsville Hanna High School.
 
Mike Brisky
 
Brisky was part of the Broncs men's golf team from 1983 through 1986.
 
Brisky recorded multiple top-10 finishes in his college career, including three at the Pan American University Golf Classic in 1983, 1984 and 1986. In 1984, he fired a 67, which is the third-lowest single-round score ever by a Broncs golfer.
 
After graduating, Brisky went on to play seven years on the PGA Tour and three on the Nationwide Tour, earning nearly two million dollars. Twice during his PGA career he forced a playoff for an event championship, taking second place at the 1995 Buick Open and the 1999 John Deere Classic.
 
Brisky grew up in Brownsville and graduated from Homer Hanna High School. While there, Brisky was forced to choose between golf and baseball and had to spend four hours a day, five days a week, working on his putt as a freshman.
 
During his senior year, Brisky finished third in the UIL Regional Tournament and became the first Brownsville golfer to advance to the national final of the Insurance Youth Golf Classic in Houston.
 
After graduating from UTPA with a degree in Business Management, Brisky moved to San Antonio where he worked washing golf carts for eight hours a day at The Club Sonterra. After several months, Brisky got the opportunity to be part of a foursome.
 
In July 1988, Brisky moved to Florida with the goal of making the PGA Tour. In November, he won his first event on the Florida Tour. Brisky qualified for his first U.S. Open in 1989, getting paired up with Arnold Palmer, who didn't qualify, in the second stage.
 
Brisky married his wife, Judy, in 1990. They have two sons, Jacob and Joel.
 
Monica Wesley Swift
 
Swift competed for the Broncs from 1988 through 1992 and was one of the best performers in program history in the long jump and the triple jump. She holds the program record in the outdoor triple jump with a mark of 41'6", and in the indoor long jump with a mark of 19'3.5".
 
In 1989, she garnered the distinction of becoming the first NCAA Division I national qualifier for any sport in the history of women's athletics at the University of Texas-Pan American as a triple jumper in women's outdoor track and field. She was also the first female athlete in institutional history to represent the Broncs athletic program in a post-collegiate USA national championship competition as she qualified and was a finalist for the triple jump in both the 1989 and 1990 USA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Her performances in those two seasons led to a Top 12 All-U.S. national ranking and Top 50 All-IAAF world ranking.
 
Wesley Swift dominated the American South Conference Championships in indoor and outdoor track and field, winning nine conference championship titles for both the long jump and triple jump in the conference's first four years of competition. She was also a multiple All-American South Conference Performer as a member of the school record setting 400M Relay and 1600M Relay Teams for outdoor track and field as well as being a member of the indoor track and field All-ASC 1600M Relay Team. By the conclusion of her senior year, Wesley Swift set the All-Time institutional records for the Indoor Long Jump, Indoor Triple Jump, Outdoor Long Jump, Outdoor Triple Jump, and was a member of the record-setting Indoor 1600M Relay Team, the Outdoor 400M Relay Team and the Outdoor 1600M Relay Team. She still holds the Indoor Long Jump Record of 19'-3.5", the Outdoor Triple Jump Record of 41'-6", the Indoor 1600M Relay Team Record of 3:57.41, and the Outdoor 1600M Relay Team Record of 3:47.03.  Wesley Swift is also still ranked second on the UTPA All-Time Performance List for the Indoor Triple Jump at 39'-10.5", the Outdoor Long Jump at 19'-10.5", and the Outdoor 400M Relay Team with a time of 48.03. 
 
Wesley Swift earned the 1989 UTPA Female Athlete of the Year Award and the 1991 LaMantia Award as the Most-Outstanding Senior Female Student-Athlete at UTPA. Additionally, she was named to the American South Conference Commissioner's List for high academic performance during her junior and senior seasons with the Broncs. She graduated in 1991 with a BBA in Marketing and continued her studies at UTPA, earning a Master's Degree in Education with a specialization in Kinesiology in 1994. Wesley Smith continued her track and field career as a graduate student at UTPA and became a provisional qualifier for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Trials in the Women's Triple Jump while achieving a Top 25 All-U.S. post-collegiate ranking at 42'-7.5" in that event.
 
Among her favorite UTPA moments were finishing second in the triple jump as the outdoor conference meet and third at the indoor meet as a freshman and competing at the NCAA Championships in Provo, Utah as a junior.
 
Her collegiate success was no surprise after earning track MVP honors during all four years at C.H. Yoe High School in Cameron, Texas. She was also named all-district twice in volleyball while lettering in basketball and cheerleading as well.
 
Following the conclusion of her athletic career, Wesley Swift was the head coach of Girls Varsity Track and Field at Sharyland High School in Mission, from 1994-to-2000, while serving as a Career and Technology Education Instructor. She guided the Lady Rattlers to six District 30-4A Championships while producing numerous UIL All-Region IV-4A performers and three University Interscholastic League All-State 4A Championship level athletes. From 2000-to-2006, Wesley Swift served as a Career and Technology Education Instructor and Head Girls Varsity Cross Country and Track and Field coach at Johnny G. Economedes High School in Edinburg, during the school's first six years of existence. In 2006, she returned to Sharyland High School again as a Career and Technology Education Instructor and Head Girls Varsity Track and Field coach. Since 2008, Wesley Swift has served Sharyland High School as an Assistant Principal, supervising the Career and Technology Education Program. She holds Texas Education Agency certifications as a Texas Public School Secondary Educator with endorsements in Business Education and Physical Education as well as a TEA Mid-Management Level Principal's certificate. She is also credentialed as a TEA Professional Development and Appraisal System Educator Evaluator and has served (16) years in secondary education in the Rio Grande Valley. Both she and her 17 year-old daughter, Monique, an honor student and standout volleyball and track and field athlete for McAllen High School, reside in McAllen.
 
Dr. Ralph F. Schilling 
 
Schilling was appointed President by the Edinburg College Board of Regents in 1960, and remained in charge of the institution until 1981, taking a small county-supported college and turning it into Texas' fastest growing state university.
 
Schilling led what was then known as Pan American College through a period of rapid growth, admission to the state system and transition from college to university. His leadership enabled Pan American to receive full state aid in 1965. Pan American became a university in 1971 when it began to offer graduate degrees.
 
Schilling's foresight helped Pan American more than triple its registration during his tenure. Growth reached a record 7,052 students in September 1973. Today, UTPA is home to 19,034 students. Schilling also began a $15 million dollar building program.
 
He also presided over the most successful era of Broncs athletics, including five-straight men's tennis NAIA National Championships (1961 through 1966), the 1963 men's basketball NAIA National Championship, and a trip to the 1971 College World Series in baseball, where the Broncs finished fourth out of eight. The baseball team made the NCAA Tournament 12 times during Schilling's tenure.
 
Schilling played college football as a defensive end at the University of Oklahoma and in the NFL for the Washington Redskins during the Sammy Baugh era and in the All America Football Conference with the Buffalo Bisons in 1946. Schilling ended his playing career in the Pacific Coast Football League.
 
Schilling served in the United State Navy during World War II, where he played football for the 1945 Pearl Harbor Base team. He was also chosen as a Hawaii Navy All-Star and played on that team against the Hawaii Marine All-Star team in late 1945.
 
He specialized in educational administration while earning his master's degree from Oklahoma and his doctorate at Texas Tech.
 
Schilling was born on July 5, 1921 in Morris, Oklahoma and died on May 9, 1994 in McAllen.
 
The University of Texas-Pan American Department of Intercollegiate Athletics competes at the NCAA Division I classification. UTPA, formerly known as Pan American College and Pan American University, is a part of the University of Texas System of Schools. The Broncs compete in 14 varsity sports; men's and women's basketball, golf, tennis, track and field, and cross country, along with women's volleyball and men's baseball. In 1963, then known as Pan American College, the Broncs men's basketball program won the NAIA National Championship with a 73-62 victory over Western Carolina. In 2008, UTPA joined the new all-sports division of the Great West Conference.