Pat McAfee, Bill Stewart headline West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame class

Pat McAfee, who was one of the top kickers and punters in the Big East Conference, became an All-Pro in the NFL and is now a sports media star, will join fellow West Virginia greats in the latest class of the school’s Sports Hall of Fame.

Wren Baker, WVU’s vice president and director of athletics, announced the Class of 2025 on Friday. The six member group includes Chelsea Carrier-Eades (track and field), Bill Kirelawich (football), McAfee (football), Bill Stewart (football), Darrell Whitmore (baseball/football) and Petra Zublasing (rifle). This class brings the total number of inductees to 243.

• McAfee played at WVU from 2005-08. The Plum native was named a CBSSports.com First Team All-American, Walter Camp Football Foundation Second Team All-American, Associated Press Third Team All-American, Ray Guy Award finalist, Lou Groza Award semifinalist and played in the Under Armour Senior Bowl.

He set the WVU career records for most games played (51), scoring (384), kick scoring (384) and extra points made (210), was third in punting average (43.7) and field goals made (58) and eighth in number of punts (126).

As a member of the Indianapolis Colts, he made two Pro Bowl appearances, was an All-Pro in 2014 and played in Super Bowl XLIV in his rookie year during an eight-year NFL career.

He now hosts “The Pat McAfee Show” on ESPN, is an analyst on College GameDay and is a color commentator and occasional wrestler for the WWE.

• Carrier-Eades earned eight All-America honors from 2008-12 in track and field and still holds WVU school records in the 60-meter hurdles (8.08, 2011), pentathlon (4,170, 2011), 100-meter hurdles (12.78, 2012) and heptathlon (5,927, 2011). Carrier-Eades was an 11-time NCAA individual qualifier and a 10-time Big East champion.

• Kirelawich is the winningest assistant football coach in WVU history. He spent 32 years at West Virginia from 1979-2011 and was part of 23 bowl appearances.

• Stewart led WVU to one of the greatest bowl wins in school history, beating Oklahoma, 48-28, in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl as interim coach, and had a .700 winning percentage as a head football coach from 2009-11.

He followed up the Oklahoma victory with three consecutive nine-win seasons, including trips to the Meineke Car Care, Gator and Champs Sports Bowls. Prior to being named head coach at WVU, Stewart spent eight seasons on the West Virginia staff.

Stewart died on May 21, 2012.

• Whitmore was a two-sport standout in baseball and football from 1988-91. Over two seasons, he hit .392 with 78 hits and 72 RBIs in 199 at-bats. He was named to the All-Atlantic 10 First Team and to the All-East Region Second Team in 1990. Whitmore owns school records with a .678 slugging percentage and .481 on-base percentage.

He was drafted by the then-Cleveland Indians in the second round of the 1990 Major League Baseball draft and played professionally from 1990-2002.

Whitmore was also a four-year starter at safety on the Mountaineer football team, recording 14 career interceptions and left as the career leader in passes broken up with 21.

• Zublasing is the only Mountaineer to win three individual NCAA championships during her career from 2011-13, claiming the 2012 air rifle title while winning the air rifle and smallbore disciplines the following season in 2013.

She was a five-time NCAA All-American, claiming the honor in air rifle three times (2011, 2012, 2013) and smallbore twice (2012, 2013). Zublasing was named the 2013 College Rifle Coaches Association (CRCA) Shooter of the Championship in 2013.

Zublasing competed at two Olympics, representing Italy, qualifying in 2012 for the London Games and then again in 2016 at the Rio Games.

Induction ceremonies will take place Sept. 27, prior to the West Virginia-Utah football game.