Hall of Fame
The first dominant defensive player in the recent era of successful football at Johns Hopkins, Stu Markley left a mark on the Blue Jay football program that may never be matched. His efforts under a young head coach named Jim Margraff helped turn around a program that had fallen on hard times before they both arrived in 1990. Hopkins posted winning records in 1990 and 1991 after winning a combined total of nine games in the four years before Markley arrived.
Markley starred as a linebacker in 1990, 1991 and 1993 (he missed the 1992 season with an injury) and graduated as JHU's career leader in tackles (467). He led the team in tackles in each of his three seasons with a school-record 164 as a senior. He earned Third Team All-America and Second Team Academic All-America honors as a senior, when he was also awarded a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. At the time he became the first Hopkins football player to earn an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship since 1977 and he remains the only football playes in school history to earn All-America and Academic All-America honors.
Markley became the first Johns Hopkins football player to earn First Team All-Centennial Conference honors three times, grabbed All-ECAC South honors as a senior and is believed to be the only three-time captain in school history. He was a finalist for the NACDA/Disney Scholar Athlete Award in 1994 and earned the C. Gardner Mallonee Award as the top senior male athlete at Johns Hopkins.
Markley was also a member of the Johns Hopkins wrestling team during the 1992-93 season.
