CHARLESTON, S.C. - Four former Buccaneers will have their legacies cemented in history when they are inducted into the Charleston Southern Athletics Hall of Fame this fall.

Katie Tull (Women's Basketball), Gabrielle Houston (Women's Track), Olga Makhova (Women's Tennis), and Lavon Allen (Men's Track) will comprise the class of 2019 as voted on by the CSU Athletics Hall of Fame committee and will be inducted on October 4, 2019.

"Being elected into your alma mater's Hall of Fame is one of the greatest achievements a student-athlete can earn," CSU Director of Athletics Jeff Barber commented. "All four of these inductees put in tremendous work in the classroom, court and tracks and are highly deserving to be in this year's class."

Katie Tull – Women's Basketball – 2007-2011
Katie Tull was named the 2010-11 Big South Player of the Year, and was the first to earn the honor from CSU since the 1995-96 season. Over the course of her career, she set the CSU and Big South career records for three pointers made. She also broke the school record for threes made in a game.

Tull was the first player in more than a decade to lead the Big South in scoring and left CSU fourth all-time in school history and 21st in Big South history in scoring. She led the nation in three pointers per game in the 2011 season with 3.6. At the end of her playing career was ranked in the top 20 in NCAA history in three point field goals made with 314 for her career.

Gabrielle Houston – Women's Track – 2008-2012
Gabrielle Houston became the first Charleston Southern female athlete to be award with the Big South's top honors in 2011-12 as the redshirt junior was named the Big South's 2011-2012 Female Student-Athlete of the Year. This award came after Houston was selected as the Big South Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year after earning six All-Conference plaudits during the 2011-12 season, including a pair of gold medals at the 2012 Big South Indoor Track & Field Championships.

At that meet, she tied both the Big South championship meet record and overall record as she won the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.14. Her second first-place finish of the meet came in the 4x400 meter relay as she anchored the Buccaneers to a time of 3:51.97. Houston closed out the indoor championship with a second-place finish in the 60 meters with a time of 7.49.

During the Big South Outdoor Track & Field Championship, Houston placed second in the 100-meter event with a time of 11.80 and followed with a second-place time in the 200 meters at 24.13. She helped CSU place third overall in the 4x100 meter relay with a time of 46.13. Additional highlights from Houston's 2011-2012 campaign included the conference's top times in both the outdoor 100-meter dash (11.45) at the NCAA Preliminaries, and the indoor 60-meter event (7.46) at the Big South Championship.

Houston collected Honorable Mention All-America accolades after finishing 18th in the country with a time of 23.68 in the 200-meter event at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Her time of 23.42 in the 200 at the NCAA Preliminaries qualified for nationals, and set the Big South's all-time standard in the event in the process, before breaking the mark in her senior season.

Her appearance in the NCAA Championships marked the first time a CSU female athlete qualified for the meet since the 2009 season. She added another strong finish in her senior season setting Big South outdoor meet records in both the 100m (11.47) and the 200m (23.45) that are still the conference standard today, as well as the indoor meet record in the 60m (7.41)

Olga Makhova – Women's Tennis – 2009-2012
Olga Makhova started one of the most successful tennis careers in Big South history earning back-to-back Big South Conference Player of the Year recognition in both 2009 and 2010. Her success in the 2010 season paced the Buccaneers to their first Big South Conference regular season championship since the 1998 season, snapping a stretch of 11 consecutive seasons where Winthrop and Coastal held the title. She was influential with the team earning Tournament Runner-Up honors in both 2009 and 2010.

Makhova was the Big South Freshman and Player of the Year in the 2009 season, and followed up in the 2010 season in becoming just the second player in program history to earn the postseason recognition.

She was a four-time All-Conference singles honoree and added doubles recognition in her senior year. She is one of eight players in conference history to earn All-Conference singles recognition in all four seasons. She added Flight Championship honors in both 2009 and 2010. 

Lavon Allen – Men's Track – 2009-2013
Lavon Allen finished off his storied jumping career with the Buccaneers as a 2013 NCAA All-American in the long jump. He was a two-time Big South Indoor long jump champion (2011, 2013) and back-to-back Outdoor long jump champion (2012, 2013) setting off a reign that spanned four years with the Bucs finishing on top of the conference in the event.

In his All-American season in 2013, Allen placed 20th nationally with a distance of 7.39m to for one of the top finishes in program history at the conclusion of his career. He currently remains the Big South Indoor Championship long jump record holder at 7.58m. He was also a member of the team that set the CSU school record in the Distance Medley Relay at the time.

Allen was a six-time conference champion, received 15 All-Conference honors, and was a six-time NCAA Division Regional Qualifier.