WILMINGTON, Del. -- Three former University of Delaware standout athletes will be honored this evening as Jimmy Flynn (middle right), the late Mike McGlinchey (top right), and Dave Sysko (bottom right) will be inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Chase Center on the Wilmington Riverfront.

The three are among 12 people who made outstanding contributions to sports in the state of Delaware and will be honored this evening for their outstanding careers. Flynn and Sysko are also members of the University of Delaware Athletics Hall of Fame with both being inducted in 2006.

Also inducted will be sports official Edward “Punk” Callaway, basketball standout Albert “Buddy” Clark, tennis player Dave Hubinger, bowler Jimmy “JJ” Johnson, basketball player Frank Kaminski, multi-sport star Clifton “Gator” Lewis, football standout Tom Marshall, softball player Charles “Gene” Schaen, and athletics administrator F. Tucker “Tuck” Mulrooney.

Now in its 34th year, the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame has honored 274 people in 29 sports.

Flynn made his mark at Delaware not only as a standout football player and track sprinter, but also as a long-time member of the Blue Hen coaching staff. A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Flynn was a four-year letterwinner as a running back for coach Dave Nelson, leading the 1954 Refrigerator Bowl team in rushing (705 yards) and scoring (60 points) to earn All-Middle Atlantic Six football honors. He finished his career 1,387 yards rushing, which ranked No. 2 all-time when he graduated.

He was a four-year letterwinner in track and set the school indoor record in the 50 meters (5.3) in 1954. He later served as a physical education instructor at UD from 1960-79, as an assistant football and head freshman coach under Nelson and Tubby Raymond for 19 years, and as head coach for track & field in 1961-79. He posted a dual record of 92-28 and led his track teams to three conference titles and three second place finishes. In football, he helped lead the Blue Hens to small college national titles in 1971 and 1972. Flynn, who was also inducted into the Delaware Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1999, remains a loyal fan of UD sports and is currently President of the Blue Hen Touchdown Club.

One of the most prolific scorers in Delaware basketball history, Sysko led the Blue Hens to outstanding success during the early 1960’s. A native of Penn Grove, N.J., the 6-5 Sysko was a force on the offensive end, leading head coach Irv Wisniewski’s squads to a three-year mark of 45-23, including a school-record 18 wins in 1961-62.

A three-year starter, he led the Middle Atlantic Conference in scoring as a senior in 1963-64 when he set a school record with a 23.9 point per game scoring average and earned honorable mention All-American and first team All-MAC honors. He averaged 19.2 points - the third highest mark in UD history - and 9.5 rebounds per game for his career and his career-high 45-point effort vs. Lafayette in 1964 remains a modern UD single game record. He later earned a National Basketball Association tryout with the Baltimore Bullets in 1967. Active in the community, Sysko was a co-founder of the Future Stars program, an academic program for promising young basketball players in Wilmington and New Castle County.

After winning numerous awards as an all-round athlete at Newark High School and the University of Delaware, McGlinchey served as head football coach at Central Connecticut State University (1987-92) and Frostburg State University (1992-96), and was head football (1972-86) and wrestling coach at Salisbury State University. He retired in 1996 after battling ALS for seven years, and died in 1997.

He led his Frostburg State football teams to two ECAC titles and a berth in the 1995 NCAA Division III quarterfinals and led Salisbury to three trips to the NCAA Tournament, including a berth in the 1986 NCAA III finals. He also coached 16 wrestling All-Americans and three national champions at Salisbury State. While at Delaware, McGlinchey lettered in four sports, earning four in wrestling and one each in football, soccer, and baseball. He won the 1967 Red Tawes Award as the Most Valuable Player of the wrestling team and was named the 1967 UD Outstanding Senior Male Athlete of the Year.