TUCSON, Ariz. – The newest class of the University of Arizona Athletics Hall of Fame will be officially inducted Friday night in a ceremony at the Westin La Paloma.
 
The inductees will then be recognized Saturday night at halftime of Arizona Football's season opener versus BYU. The class includes three track and field athletes, two baseball players, a swimmer, a soccer player and a gymnastics athlete, along with the 2018 National Championship winning women's golf team.
 
Some of the finest athletes to wear the Cardinal and Navy will take their rightful place in Wildcat lore this weekend.
 
Here's a breakdown of each member of the class:
 
Klaus Ambrosch, Track and Field (1997-99): Some consider the NCAA Champion in the decathlon as the best athlete in the country, and in 1998, Klaus Ambrosch was the best athlete in the country. Scoring 7,825 points at the 1998 NCAA Championships in Buffalo, New York, Ambrosch won the decathlon, which at the time was the sixth-most points any decathlete has scored in Arizona history. Ambrosch is one of just three National Champion decathletes in Arizona history, who has been competing in Track & Field since the early 1930s.
 
Shelley Duncan, Baseball (1998-2001): One of the most prolific power hitters in conference history, Shelley Duncan was a stalwart during his three years at Arizona. A first-team All-American in 2001, Duncan is Arizona's career home run leader with 55 long balls. He's also the program's single-season home run leader with 24, which came in 2001. Duncan hit a home run every 10.35 at-bats during his Arizona career, which is the best ratio in school history. The Tucson native hit 20 home runs as a freshman in 1999, which still stands as a school freshman record. His 186 career RBI rank eighth all-time at Arizona. A three-time Pac-10 Player of the Week, Duncan was a first-team Baseball America Freshman All-American and an All-Pac-10 pick in 1999. He was selected in the second round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft by the New York Yankees, and made his big league debut in 2007. He played parts of seven seasons in the Major Leagues and now serves as the manager for the Arizona Diamondbacks' Double-A Affiliate, the Jackson Generals.
 
Kristie Fox, Softball (2003-2008): One of the best two-way players in school history, Kristie Fox's All-American career at Arizona helped produce to back-to-back national championships in 2006 and 2007. Fox, a first-team-All-American in 2005 and 2006, was a four-year starter for the Wildcats, starting 247 of Arizona's 248 games during her career. She helped lead the Wildcats to a 204-43-1 (.825) record in her career and was a member of three Women's College World Series teams.
Fox, a first-team all-conference shortstop in her sophomore, junior and senior seasons, hit a remarkable .352 in her career with 46 doubles, 48 home runs, 230 RBI and a .612 slugging percentage. She also stole 23 bases in 25 tries. Fox currently ranks 15th in school history in career homers and 10th in career RBI.
 
Charmaine Gale, Track and Field (1982-1983): As a freshman in 1982, Charmaine Gale was the Indoor High Jump National Champion, clearing a height of 6-1.5 (1.86m) and becoming Arizona's first freshman to (men or women) to win an Indoor National Championship. To this day, Gale is still the only woman in Arizona Track & Field history to win an Indoor National Championship in any event as a freshman. Gale set the tone for future Wildcats to have success in the high jump at the Indoor National Championships as four other UA athletes took home the high jump crown.
 
Adam Kuehl, Track and Field (2003-2007): Adam Kuehl was a staple at the Indoor and Outdoor National Championships in the mid-2000s, earning first-team All-America honors four times as well as being a two-time World-Team Alternate in 2005 and 2007. During his sophomore outdoor season in 2005, he started his run of success with a toss of 192-11 (58.8m) in the discus to finish in fourth place. The following year, Kuehl earned a second-place finish in the discus with a throw of 195-8 (59.63m). In his senior season in 2007, Kuehl added a first-team All-America honor in the shot put with a mark of 60-3.25 (18.37m) at the Indoor National Championships and had a toss of 199-0 (60.65m) in the final meet of his career at the Outdoor National Championships. Kuehl set the school record in the discus on May 17, 2007 when he tossed a mark of 213-2 (64.98m) in Salinas, Calif. That mark still stands to this day.
 
Mallory Miller, Soccer (2002-2006): Considered the best player to grace the pitch at Mulcahy Stadium, Mallory Miller is at the top of the Arizona record book in goals (32) and points (83) while having the third-most assists in Arizona history (19). Fourteen of her 32 goals ended up being game-winning goals, which is six more than any other player in Arizona history. The 2005 Pac-10 Player of the Year and three-time All-Pac-10 honoree led the conference in points (43), assists (9) and game-winning goals (9) when the Wildcats advanced to their first Round of 16 in 2005. Miller gained some national attention in 2005 as well as she was a finalist for Soccer Buzz's Player of the Year, was an All-West Region first team honoree and was named to the NSCAA/Adidas All-America Team.
 
Burdette Morago, Baseball (1956-1959): An Arizona Baseball pioneer, Burdette Morago played for the Wildcats from 1957-1960. He led the Wildcats in strikeouts (99) and ERA (3.33) in 1957, while winning eight games that season. For his career, he started 34 games, appearing in 43 total contests. He went 21-9 during his time at Arizona with a career ERA of 3.07. He finished with a career batting average of .291, which is believed to be the highest average by a player who primarily pitched.  Moraga  pitched the Wildcats to the College World Series in both 1958 and 1959. In 1958, Moraga beat Texas in the District 6 Championship Game to send the Cats to Omaha. One year later, he shut out Texas A&M 1-0 in the District Championship to again send Arizona to the College World Series. Following his collegiate career, he signed a professional contract with the Boston Red Sox.
 
Doug Towne, Swimming and Diving (1980-1983): In the storied history of the Arizona Swimming and Diving program, the school has produced an amazing 101 individual NCAA Championships. The first of those 101 came in 1981, when Doug Towne swam the 500-yard freestyle in 4:16.54 to win the Wildcats' first ever individual national title. Towne's time of 4:16.54 remains, nearly 40 years later, as the 10th-fastest 500-yard freestyle in school history. The national title was one of 12 All-America honors for Towne in his Wildcat career; he was the national runner-up in the 1650-yard freestyle in 1981 as well. Since Towne paved the way atop the podium for the Wildcats, 67 more UA swimmers and divers have won 100 national championships in the 37 years since.
 
Karin Wurm, Gymnastics (2004-09): In Arizona Gymnastics' history, Karin Wurm is the ninth GymCat to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. During her time as a GymCat from 2004-2009, she was also extremely involved on campus. Wurm won the Eller College of Management "Think Forward" Award (2008), interned at Nike, was Arizona SAAB Vice President (2007) and President (2008), and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Eller College of Management with a BS in Marketing and a minor in studio art.
Wurm was an accomplished gymnast, earning the title of NCAA All-American twice, NCAA Academic All-American four times, Pac-10 Student Athlete of the Year in 2008, and CoSIDA Academic All-District III. She was also a two-time Individual National Qualifier (All-Around) and a two-time Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week.
 
2018 Women's Golf Team: Rarely in sport does one remarkable moment so magically transform the fate of a team as happened for the 2018 Arizona women's golf team. Needing to make a 30-foot eagle putt to force a playoff on the final hole of team stroke play, Bianca Pagdanganan did exactly that. The junior's heroics delivered a jolt of confidence and fearlessness that sparked a team championship performance for the ages over the next two days. Arizona dispatched Baylor in a playoff to earn the final spot in the eight-team match play championship. Once in match play, head coach Laura Ianello and assistant Derek Radley expertly paired their five individuals over the three match play rounds, with Pagdanganan, Yu-Sang Hou, Haley Moore, Sandra Nordaas and Gigi Stoll each winning crucial matches. The Wildcats stunned No. 1-seed UCLA with a 3-2 win in the quarterfinal match and then cruised to a 4-1 victory over fifth-seeded Stanford in the semifinals later in the afternoon. In the championship, Arizona had the daunting task of facing No. 2 Alabama, which placed its three first team All-Americans at the top of the lineup. The Wildcats matched the Crimson Tide all day long, with the match tied 2-2 coming down to a playoff in the final match. Moore sank a birdie putt on her 19^th hole of the match to secure the program's first national championship since 2000 and its third overall.