Francis Marion University athletic officials have announced that
former Patriot basketball player Carlton Farr, the
program's career scoring leader, will be the newest inductee into
the FMU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.
Farr's coach at Francis Marion, Lewis Hill, will assist in the
presentation.
Farr, a native of Spartanburg,
attended Francis Marion between 1990 and 1995, and earned the
B.B.A. degree in management. For the past three years, he has
been an operations manager with the Walt Disney Internet Group at a
distribution center in Jonesville. He resides in
Boiling Springs, with his wife Princess, also a
1995 FMU graduate.
Six games into his freshman season at FMU, the 6-3 guard-forward
broke a bone in his right wrist in a game at USC Spartanburg.
Farr received a medical redshirt waiver for that season, and thus
had the unique opportunity of being a member of five FMU cage
teams.
He established numerous team records in his unusual five-year
career, including eight career marks. He played in 119 career
games, scoring in double figures in 106 of them, and became the
school's career scoring leader with 1,863 points. He ended
his career second on the assists list with 326 and sixth on both
the rebounding (644) and blocked shots (32) lists, while owning the
team records for steals in a season (65) and career (247). He
helped lead the Patriots to a 91-54 record, including three seasons
of 19 or more wins.
Following his second "freshman season," during which he averaged
13.4 points per game and shot 51.2 percent from the floor, he was
named the 1992 Peach Belt "Freshman of the Year." That year,
Francis Marion posted a 19-12 mark and narrowly missed out on the
team's second consecutive NAIA national tournament invitation.
Farr was a three-time All-Peach Belt selection and a three-time
FMU team most valuable player. Statistically, his best season came
in 1993-94 when he averaged 18.6 ppg and 6.7 rebounds per game with
64 steals, while also shooting 41.7 percent from beyond the
three-point line.
As a senior in 1995, he averaged 15.9 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.9
assists, and 2.1 steals per game and was selected as the
conference's "Player of the Year." He also earned NABC/Sears
All-South Region recognition after leading the Patriots to a 17-10
record and a second-place finish during the Peach Belt regular
season.
Farr broke the school's career scoring mark, previously held by
FMU Hall of Famer Allen Floyd (1971-75), with a three-point field
goal during a 66-56 win over USC Aiken on Jan. 11, 1995.
Farr was recently named to the Patriot men's basketball
All-Decade Team for the 1990s.
