Mr. Alonzo Babers      
Track   -  Class of 1983

• Academy record holder (400-meter dash, 300-yard dash, 500-yard dash)
• Two-time NCAA All-American (1983)
• 1983 Team Most Valuable Player
• Two-time team outstanding competitor award winner (1981, 1982)
• Olympic gold medal winner (1984: 400-meter dash, 4x400-meter relay)
• Competed at the World University Games in 1983
• Named Southland Corporation Sportsman Of the Year in 1984
• Named Touchdown Club Military Athlete Of the Year in 1984
• From January 1999 until retirement, served as USAFA Liaison Officer

Lt Gen (Ret) Robert Beckel
Men's Basketball   -  Class of 1959

• Helms All-America selection in 1959
• Served as Cadet Wing Commander
• Owns AFA's top four single-game scoring performances (50, 48, 47, 46)
• Ranks fourth on AFA's career scoring list with 1,526 points
• Winner of AFA's Athletic Leadership Award in 1959
• Played in the 1959 East-West Shrine All-Star Game
• 1959 Team Most Valuable Player
• Commandant of Cadets at USAFA in 1981
• Flew 313 combat missions in the F-100 in Vietnam
• Commander, 15th Air Force, responsible for worldwide operation of the Strategic Air Command air refueling tanker force

Col (Ret) John Clune
Administration-Athletic Director (1975-91)

• Spearheaded AFA's successful move into the Western Athletic Conference in 1980
• Initiated comprehensive 10-sport women's program in 1976
• Served as president of National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (1984-85)
• Served as chairman of the Division 1-A football committee
• In 1982, moved women's program from AIAW to NCAA Division II level of competition
• Worked with Air Force Academy Foundation in 1986 to build $4.5 million visitor center

• Served as president of the College Football Association in 1989
• Inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame
• Received the Homer C. Rice Award in 1991 for exemplary service to intercollegiate athletics
• Received the John L. Toner Award for outstanding dedication to college athletics

Mr. Chad Hennings
Football   -  Class of 1988

• Most celebrated football player in Academy history
• Consensus All-American and Outland Trophy winner in 1987
• Touchdown Club college lineman of the year in 1987
• Named the WAC's defensive player of the decade for the 1980s
• Selected to play in the Japan Bowl and East-West Shrine game in 1988
• Inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 2006
• Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006
• Played with Dallas Cowboys for nine seasons, winning three Super Bowl Championships
• Served in Desert Storm as an A-10 pilot

Brig Gen Michelle Johnson
Basketball   -  Class of 1981

• School-record holder for career scoring average (17.6) and field goals made (689)
• Ranks in top five on AFA all-time leading scorer list with 1,706 points
• Ranks in top five on AFA all-time free throws made (328)
• Team co-captain, 1979-81
• Academic All-American (3.91 GPA), 1980-81
• 1981 Team Most Valuable Player
• AFA's first female Cadet Wing Commander and first female Rhodes Scholar
• Inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1995
• Command pilot with more than 3,600 flying hours in C-141, T41, KC-10, C-17, C-5 and KC-135

Col (Ret) Brock Strom
Football   -  Class of 1959

• Captained 1958 undefeated football team
• Consensus football All-American in 1958 at tackle - the Academy's first
• Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1985
• Inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 1991
• Inducted into Colorado Springs Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007
• Obtained Masters degree from MIT in astronautical engineering
• Managed a group of engineers verifying Missile Inertial Guidance Performance
• Flew as a navigator in Vietnam (90 Missions)
• Obtained Ph.D from Arizona State University in astronautical engineering
• Served as the Director of Engineering for the Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Directed the development of the Air Force Space Defense System