'Can't wait for March': New athletes to be inducted into Texas Sports Hall of Fame

A trio of athletes with Houston connections have been named to the 2022 class of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.

Carly Caldwell, an Olympian, former NFL defensive end Michael Strahan, and ex-NFL tight end Mike Renfro are a third of the nine-person class of honorees.

"Yay!!! Can’t wait for March," Caldwell said in a post to her Twitter account on Oct. 12. 

The induction banquet is March 12 in Waco, home of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. 

Strahan graduated from Westbury and Texas Southern University and went on to a Hall of Fame career with the New York Giants after being drafted in the second round of the NFL draft. Fort Worth native Renfro was the all-time receiving leader in the Southwest Conference when he played for TCU was drafted in the fourth round of the NFL draft in 1978 and played for the Houston Oilers during the team's Luv Ya Blue era and later for the Dallas Cowboys after being traded there in 1984. Caldwell trained in Houston en route to a gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004.

The inductees have had other success after sports, Strahan now co-hosts Good Morning America on ABC and Caldwell was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2009, according to the Houston Chronicle. 

Other athletes being inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 2022 include Baylor Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, former San Antonio Spurs players Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, basketball player Chris Bosh of Dallas who found his greatest fame in the NBA playing with the Miami Heat, Baylor basketball star Suzie Snider Eppers and Olympic gold medalist Bob Beamon, who went to the University of Texas-El Paso prior to setting the world record in the long jump at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.