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From left, Wally Joyner, Holly Rowe, Stew Morrill and Mary Kay Amicone react to John Buck during a banquet to induct the five into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City.

Jody Genessy, for the USHOFF

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The five 2025 inductees to the Utah Sports Hall of Fame pose for a photo Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, at Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City. Top left: Wally Joyner, John Buck. Bottom left: Holly Rowe, Stew Morrill, Mary Kay Amicone.

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Softball coach Mary Kay Amicone, center right, a 2025 inductee to the Utah Sports Hall of Fame, poses with, from left, husband Marc Amicone, former Weber State basketball coach Joe Cravens, and son Trevor Amicone on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, at Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City.

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Softball coach Mary Kay Amicone, center right, a 2025 inductee to the Utah Sports Hall of Fame, listens to former Weber State basketball coach Joe Cravens spin a yarn on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, at Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City.

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The Utah Sports Hall of Fame Foundation made its 2025 HOF class official Monday night with a banquet and induction ceremony at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City.

Retired Weber State softball coach Mary Kay Amicone joined former major league baseball player and Utah native John Buck, former BYU player and big-leaguer Wally Joyner, former Utah State men’s basketball coach Stew Morrill, and Utah native and longtime sports broadcaster Holly Rowe as the five new additions to the Utah Sports Hall of Fame.

Amicone won 808 games as a head softball coach at BYU, Salt Lake Community College and finally Weber State over a 32-year coaching career. A graduate of Murray High, Amicone once led Bingham High to a state softball title, was the first woman to lead a prep baseball program in Utah at Jordan High, and was the first coach in BYU softball program history.

In 11 years at Weber State, she won six Big Sky titles and took the Wildcats to four NCAA Tournaments, once holding the Big Sky’s only NCAA Tournament victory until WSU got another win in 2025.

Buck, a Taylorsville native, was drafted out of high school in 1998 by the Houston Astros in the seventh round. He played in the major leagues for 11 years.

Joyner, a Georgia native, played collegiately at BYU and later made Utah his longtime home. He played 2,033 games over 16 years for four teams in Major League Baseball.

Morrill, who became synonymous with college basketball in Utah, was born in Provo. His 29-year run as a Division I men’s basketball head coach finished with 17 years at Utah State, where he had a winning percentage of .720.

Rowe, a graduate of Woods Cross High and the University of Utah, is the most nationally recognized media person among homegrown Utahns. Rowe reported for several Utah TV stations before a long and continuing career with ESPN and the Utah Jazz.