Mike Sims-Walker, Alex Haynes Headline 2025 UCF Hall of Fame Class

Dexter Lyons, Aurieyall Scott, Cornell Green and Miriam Metzcus also elected

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Former UCF Football stand outs Mike Sims-Walker, Alex Haynes and Cornell Green the 2025 UCF Athletics Hall of Fame Class that will take place on Friday October 17th, the night before football’s homecoming home game against West Virginia.

Here are the members of the 2025 class:

Mike Sims-Walker (Football)

Edgewater graduate Mike Sims-Walker played 46 career games with the Knights between 2003-2006.

In his final season with UCF in 2006, Sims-Walker not only followed up his 2005 All-CUSA Second Team selection with an All-CUSA First

Team selection, but he also set a school record with 90 receptions as he helped the program reach its first bowl game. His 1,178 receiving yards that season rank fifth in program history.

Fun Fact: Sims-Walker recorded three interceptions during the 2004 season, leading the team.

For his career, his 184 receptions rank fourth in program history and his 2,561 yards rank fourth in program history.

Sims-Walker played in the NFL from 2007-2011 with Jacksonville Jaguars and the St Louis Rams and in the CFL with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2013.

Alex Haynes (Football)

In 41 games, Haynes (2001-2004) finished his career at UCF with 3,359 yards which is UCF’s 3rd all-time leading rusher. Haynes ranks 6th in program history in rushing touchdowns (27), tied for 2nd in 100-yard rushing games (15), 7th in program history in career all-purpose yards (4,021) and career average all-purpose yards (98.1).

Haynes became the first Knight running back to reach the 4,000 yard milestone. He was also the first Knight to have four rushing touchdowns in a game when he did so against Tulane in 2001.

Cornell Green (Football)

Green Played at UCF from 1995-1998, and started all 33 games in his final three years at UCF, including being part of UCF’s 9-2 team in 1998.

Green enjoyed a solid NFL career, starting in 51 games (playing 94 total) from 1999-2010 with the New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills and Oakland Raiders. Green earned a Super Bowl ring in Super Bowl XXXVII and was reunited with college teammate Daunte Culpepper in 2007 when the two of them played for the Oakland Raiders.

Dexter Lyons (Basketball)

Lyons came to UCF (2002-2004) from Daytona State (then Daytona Beach Community College) and immediately made an impact on both ends of the floor helping UCF to two consecutive ASUN Championship Game appearances, including the conference title and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2004.

While Lyons got the first triple-double in program history when he got 14 points, 13 rebounds, and 10 assists in a Jan. 11, 2003 game against Troy, it would be the 2003-2004 season that got him into program history in a different capacity.

Lyons averaged 18.3 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.8 steals per game as a senior, all while shooting 54% from the field and 44% from three-point range, the 10th-best in program history. His 567 points rank as the 4th-highest scoring season in the program’s Division I era. He was also a First-Team All-ASUN selection, ASUN Defensive Player of the Year, and the ASUN Tournament MVP.

Aurieyall Scott (Track and Field)

Atlanta native Aurieyall Scott won the first track and field NCAA national championship in UCF history at the 60-meter indoor race in 2013, with a school record time of 7.13 seconds, edging out teammate Octavious Freeman, who got the bronze with a 7.16. She also earned a silver medal in that same meet in the 200-meter dash with a 22.71-second time.

Scott is the UCF Track and Field team’s most decorated athlete on the national level, earning five medals in NCAA Championships over her three-year career (2011-2013), was the USTFCCCA’s Indoor and Outdoor South Region Track Athlete of the Year in 2013 and was on the Bowerman Watch list in 2013.

She also earned 14 All-American honors across all six NCAA Championships she competed in spanning several events, such as the 60-meter dash, 100-meter dash, both indoor and outdoor 200-meter dashes, the 4×100-meter relay and the indoor 4×400-meter relay.

Scott was also an asset for the Knights in conference meets, leading the team to five CUSA titles (two indoor, three outdoor). She was the Freshman of the Meet at the 2011 CUSA Indoor and Outdoor Championships, tied with teammate Alexis Faulknor for the highest individual scorer in the 2013 CUSA Outdoor Championships and the 2013 CUSA Indoor Track Athlete of the Year.

Over six CUSA Championships meets, Scott earned one bronze, two silver and 11 gold medals in events she would later get All-American honors in.

She still holds the program records for the 60-meter dash (7.13s) and the indoor 200-meter dash (22.68). As for relays, she is part of the fastest 4×100-meter relay (43.15), indoor 4×400-meter relay (3:34.00) and 4×200-meter relay (1:32.81) times in program history. She also held the program’s outdoor 200-meter dash record (22.46) until it was broken in 2023.

She also ranks seventh in program history in both the indoor and outdoor 400-meter dash. As for relays, Scott was part of seven of the Top 10 fastest 4×100-meter relay times and three of the top five fastest indoor 4×400-meter relay times in program history.

Outside of pure collegiate events, Scott made it to the final of the 200-meter dash at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and finished sixth in the 100-meter dash at the 2013 USA Championships. She turned professional in the fall of 2013, after signing with Global Athletics and Nike.

Miriam Metzcus (Volleyball)

Before there was McKenna Melville, there was Miriam Metzcus.

Playing from 1991-1994, she was a three-time All-ASUN First Team selection and led the Knights to consecutive ASUN titles, an appearance in the NIVC in 1993 and the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1994.

By her career’s end, she held the program records for both career kills (1,811) and digs (1,644) and while they would both be surpassed later on, those marks still put her in fourth in program history on both lists. Both Metzcus and Melville are the only players in program history in the top five in both career kills and digs.

Metzcus does still hold the program record for the most career service aces (235) and aces per set (0.46). She also ranks third in career matches played (141), fourth in sets played (510), sixth in kills per set (3.55) and fifth in digs per set (3.22).

After her playing days, Metzcus would return to UCF as a graduate assistant in 1995 and later an assistant from 1996-1997. After Smith’s resignation, Metzcus served as interim head coach for the 1998 season. Nowadays, she is a reading teacher and volleyball coach at her alma mater, Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School.