{"id":59640,"date":"2025-09-25T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=59640"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:53:51","slug":"hall-of-honor-david-falk-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2025\/hall-of-honor-david-falk-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Honor:\u00a0David Falk &#8217;15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This is the second of four profiles about the 2025 inductees of the EMU Athletic Hall of Honor. For more information about the Hall of Honor and a full list of inductees, visit<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emuroyals.com\/honors\/hall-of-honor\">emuroyals.com\/honors\/hall-of-honor<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>David Falk &#8217;15, <\/strong>a general studies major with a concentration in business, grew up in Madison, Virginia, where he had an impressive high school basketball career. He spent a postgraduate year playing at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Virginia, before head men\u2019s basketball coach <strong>Kirby Dean <\/strong>recruited him to EMU.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a 6-foot, 6-inch center, Falk played in 105 games with 56 starts, tallying 1,058 career points in four seasons with the Runnin\u2019 Royals. He was a two-time ODAC First Team honoree, earning the distinction in 2014 and 2015; he received VaSID All-State First Team honors those same two years. Falk also made the <strong>D3hoops.com <\/strong>All-South Region Third Team in 2014 and the <strong>D3hoops.com <\/strong>All-South Region Second Team in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of his graduation, Falk held an EMU career record for blocks (214) and ranked third all-time in career rebounds with 952. Today, he still holds EMU records for most rebounds in a game (28 vs. Lynchburg on Feb. 28, 2014), most rebounds in a season (375 in 2013-2014), and most blocked shots in a season (82 in 2013-2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After learning life lessons from Coach Dean\u2014including \u201chaving perspective\u201d and \u201cto always have faith in God\u201d\u2014Falk returned to Madison where he and his wife, Katelynn, live with their two children, Preslee (4) and McCoy (2), on a 2,000-acre farm focused on cattle, corn, and soybeans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Falk will be honored at a ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 11, at 10 a.m. in the MainStage Theater (University Commons 170) during Homecoming 2025. For a full schedule of Homecoming events and activities, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/homecoming\/\"><strong>emu.edu\/homecoming<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second of four profiles about the 2025 inductees of the EMU Athletic Hall of Honor. 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