FSU Athletics Hall of Fame 2023

By Jim Joanos

If you were fortunate enough to have gotten a ticket to the 2023 FSU Athletics Hall of Fame Induction ceremony last week and you enjoy meeting and greeting and sharing memories with some of FSU's best ever athletes you had a special evening. You would have gotten to see nine more folks honored as the Class of 2023, one of the most accomplished ever. In addition, you would have enjoyed meeting, gabbing and taking snapshots of lots of folks that we cheered for in the past years.

The 2023 FSU Athletics Hall of Fame inductees: Moore-Stone winner Dr. Frances Cannon (awarded posthumously), Track's Ricardo Chambers, Baseball's Pedro Grifol (provided acceptance video - manager of the Chicago White Sox), Football's Rodney Hudson, Softball's Leslie Malerich, Soccer's Tiffany McCarty, Baseball's Eduardo Perez, Soccer's Kelly Rowland, and Women's Basketball Coach Sue Semrau.

I will write no more, but let the pictures do the talking.

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Coach Sue	Marvin Jones and Doug Mannheimer	Betty Crowe, Bob Perrone and John Crowe
Gene Deckerhoff	Bob Perrone, Peter Warrick, Marvin Jones William Floyd, Jeff Culhane and Snoop Minnis	Charlie Ward and Betty Lou Joanos
Harlien Johnson, Barbara Palmer and Jan Sikes	Cindy Scofield	India Trotter
Harry Davis	Bev Burnett	Kenny Knox
Charlie Barnes and Michaela Edenfield	Wanda Burns	Brenda Cliette
Lawton and Beth Langford	Mickey Andrews	Leander McKenzie
Lacy Janson	Rafeeq Curry	Brooke Wyckoff
Charlie Ward and Michaela Edenfield	Corey Simon	Snoop Minnis
William Floyd	Peter Warrick and Devyn Flaherty	Willie Jones and Michaela Edenfield
Eduardo Perez and Link Jarrett	Eduardo Perez, Jim Joanos and Link Jarrett	Rob Wilson and Ricardo Chambers
Pedro Grifol video	Rodney Hudson and Michael Alford	Leslie Malerich and Michael Alford
Coach Sue	Charlie Ward, Snoop Minnis, Marvin Jones, Peter Warrick, William Floyd	Cecile Reynaud
John and Betty Crowe	Top Row: Eduardo Perez, Rodney Hudson, Ricardo Chambers Bottom Row: Coach Sue, Kelly Rowland, Tiffany McCarty, Leslie Malerich

About the author:

Jim Joanos

Memories of Garnet and Gold

Jim Joanos and his wife Betty Lou have deep roots at Florida State University. Avid sports fans, they have literally seen, and done, it all. Fortunately for us, Jim loves telling first-hand accounts dating back to FSU’s first football game, a 1947 clash with the Stetson Hatters on Centennial Field, where Cascades Park is today.

The Osceola will run a series of these colorful stories written by the former Tallahassee lawyer and judge, which we feel our readers will find enlightening and/or nostalgic.

Jim and Betty Lou, who was Associate Director of the FSU Alumni Association (1991-2003), have been married 66 years and are each listed as one of FSU’s 100 Distinguished Graduates. The couple were enshrined in the FSU Hall of Fame in 2015 as Moore-Stone Award Recipients. Ironically, both Deans Moore and Stone were instrumental in the Joanoses career development.

“Both Jim and Betty Lou Joanos have been exemplary fans and supporters of Florida State University, both academically and athletically,” said Andy Miller, retired President and CEO of Seminole Boosters, Inc. “You can’t go to an athletic event of any kind that you don’t see both Jim and Betty Lou Joanos together. They love their university as much as they love each other.”