Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy is one of six inductees who make up the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2021.

“As a native Oklahoman, I am humbled and honored to be included in this year’s class for the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame,” Gundy said.

The Class of 2021 includes Roy Clymer, Stacey Dales, Dan Hays, Robert Kalsu and Gene Stephenson.

Gundy, who has been OSU’s head coach since 2005, has spent nearly all of his life and career in the state of Oklahoma.

He had a heavily-decorated prep career while playing quarterback at Midwest City High School, leading the Bombers to the 1985 state title while earning Oklahoma Player of the Year honors.

It was the Bombers’ first state championship since 1960.

Gundy arrived on the Oklahoma State campus in 1986. He was a four-year starter at OSU from 1986-89 and led the Cowboys to a pair of bowl wins – the 1987 Sun Bowl over West Virginia and the 1988 Holiday Bowl over Wyoming.

During those two seasons, OSU had a 20-4 record.

Gundy ended his playing career as the Big Eight Conference’s all-time leader in passing and total offense. He began his college career by throwing 138 passes before tossing his first career interception. That streak remained an NCAA record until 2008.

After graduation, Gundy immediately joined the Oklahoma State football staff at the age of 23. He coached the receivers in 1990, the quarterbacks from 1991-1993 and in 1994, served as offensive coordinator during the final year for Gundy’s college coach, Pat Jones.  Gundy coached in Stillwater under each of the three previous Cowboy head coaches (Jones, Bob Simmons and Les Miles).

He spent one season at Baylor (1996) as quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator before heading to the ACC, where he coached at Maryland from 1997-2000. He returned to Stillwater in 2001 as assistant head coach and offensive coordinator, and he also coached OSU quarterbacks.

In 2005, Gundy became the third OSU graduate to assume the head coaching duties in Stillwater and since then he has presided over the era of greatest sustained success in the history of the program.

When he took over as head coach in 2005, the OSU football program had an all-time record of 473-492-47 (49.1 pct.). With Gundy at the helm, OSU is 137-67-0 (67.2 pct.).

Oklahoma State had 16 bowl appearances in its 104-year history prior to Gundy, but with him as head coach, the Cowboys have had 15 consecutive bowl appearances and winning records in each of those seasons, both of which are school-record streaks. Gundy has six 10-win seasons in his tenure as OSU’s head coach, including the 2011 season that included a Big 12 championship and Fiesta Bowl championship, as well as three other New Year’s Six bowl appearances.

In the past 10 years, Gundy has had led the Cowboys to top-three finishes in the conference standings eight times.

He is one just three active coaches with more than 30 wins over teams ranked by the AP, joined by Alabama’s Nick Saban and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney.

Oklahoma State players have earned 24 All-America honors during the Gundy era, also winning six major national awards and 20 conference player of the year awards.  Off the field,  Gundy’sprogram has produced 354 graduates and most recently set a Big 12 record with 28 first-team selections to the All-Big 12 Academic team.

Clymer, who lives in Edmond, was an NFL back judge for 14 years. Clymer was a long-time NCAA basketball referee who officiated the 1978 Duke-Kentucky championship game.

Dales is a former basketball player from Canada who played at OU and now is a reporter for the NFL Network.

Hays was basketball coach at Oklahoma Christian University for 33 years and had 653-404 record. His overall coaching record was 724-470 and included five years at Northwestern Oklahoma State. He has the most wins by a men’s basketball coach at a four-year college in Oklahoma history.

Kalsu was an All-American tackle for OU and an eighth round NFL/AFL Draft pick by the Buffalo Bills in 1968. He joined the U.S. Army as an officer was killed in the Vietnam War. He was the last pro football player killed in military action in America before the death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan.

Stephenson was an assistant baseball coach at OU from 1973 to 1977. He went to high school in Guthrie  and is in the Guthrie High School Hall of Fame. He was head baseball coach at Wichita State from 1978 to 2013 and had a record of 1,837-675-3.  His teams won the College World Series in 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1996.

The Class of 2021 Inductees will be introduced at the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame’s Quarterly Leadership Lunch, with a date to be determined. The will also be recognized at the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame’s Induction Ceremony, scheduled for August 2.