WHEELING — A pair of Wheeling natives who went on to hall-of-fame athletic careers elsewhere will be among the latest to be inducted into the Wheeling Hall of Fame.

Champion golfer Scott Davis and late professional basketball player Richard “Dick” Mehen will be part of the 12-person Class of 2025. The two are being inducted under the category of sports and athletics.

The 2025 induction ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at WesBanco Arena. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online at WesBancoArena.com or by calling the arena box office at 304-233-7000, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The last day to buy tickets is June 25.

Scott Davis

Born May 6, 1956, in Wheeling, Davis dedicated his entire career to growing the game of golf in West Virginia. After graduating from Triadelphia High School — where he was a three-sport athlete in football, basketball, and golf — he was recruited to play golf at Marshall University by coach Joe Feaganes.

It was in Huntington where his career took off.

At Marshall, Davis met his mentor Harold Payne and played as a sophomore on the 1976 NCAA Tournament team while not a member of a Division I conference. The Thundering Herd finished 17th in team standings, and Davis won the NCAA Long Drive title in Albuquerque, New Mexico As a junior, he helped the Herd win the Marshall Invitational.

As a senior, he was the individual medalist in the Marshall Invitational, leading the Thundering Herd in stroke average and receiving All-Southern Conference honors in 1978.

Later that year, Davis won the West Virginia Amateur championship, recording a round of 64 to tie the all-time tournament record. He birdied six of the first 11 holes on the Old White course at The Greenbrier Resort.

After graduating from Marshall, Davis worked as an assistant golf professional under Karen Murphy at Speidel Golf Club in Wheeling, where he directed the Wheeling Junior Golf Association. A love of working with the junior golfers sparked Davis’ career.

Now a Hurricane resident, Davis has been a Professional Golf Association of America and West Virginia PGA Golf Professional for four decades. The majority of his time was spent in the Tri-State PGA Section as Head Golf Professional at Scarlett Oaks Country Club and Edgewood Country Club in southern West Virginia. In 2004, he received the PGA of America Bill Strasbaugh Award in the Tri-State Section. This award represents Davis’ career, his dedicated involvement in charitable and community activities as well as his mentoring of PGA Golf Professionals.

As a competitor, he won West Virginia Open championships in 1982, 1990, 1995, and 1998. He also was a four-time Low Senior at the Open, the 10-time West Virginia PGA Player of the Year, four-time Senior West Virginia PGA Player of the Year, Tri-State PGA champion, Tri-State Tour Championship champion, and Tri-State Match Play champion, and has competed in 18 National Club Professional Championships and six Majors Championships.

Inducted into the Marshall University Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, he also was enshrined in the West Virginia Golf Hall of Fame in 2017. The state honor cited him in this way, “Scott Davis is a trained instructor, a golf mentor, an accomplished player, a tournament director, event planner, club fitter, and merchandiser, but most importantly: A friend to the game.”

Richard “Dick” Mehen

Mehen and his older brother Bernie Mehen, who was inducted into the Wheeling Hall of Fame in 1992, probably are the most acclaimed brother athletes from Wheeling. Dick Mehen was born in Wheeling on May 20, 1922, and both brothers earned basketball fame at Wheeling High School, the University of Tennessee, and in the early era of professional basketball.

Dick and Bernie became the first two West Virginia high school basketball players to earn all-class, first-team All-State honors three times. Dick graduated from Wheeling High in 1940, two years after Bernie. Dick was a 6-foot-5, 195-pound Wildcat center who was honored as All-State captain as a senior when the Wildcats posted a 23-1 record and won the school’s second state title in three years. In 1938, with both Dick and Bernie in the starting lineup, the Wildcats went 24-0 and won a state title for coach Everett Brinkman, a Hall of Fame honoree for the city, Ohio Valley Athletic Conference, West Virginia, and the Upper Ohio Valley Dapper Dans.

The Wildcats were 64-3 in the three years Dick was a standout. As a senior, he scored 556 points to lead the Ohio Valley – and likely the state – in that low-scoring era. He ended his prep career with more than 1,300 points, a rare total for that period. He also competed as a high jumper for the Wildcat track and field team.

Dick joined Bernie at the University of Tennessee and twice earned All-Southeastern Conference first-team honors in 1942-43. He was a second team All-American in 1942. His career was interrupted by U.S. Air Force service, in 1944-45 during World War II, but he managed to finish school in 1947.

He then played five seasons of pro basketball as a power forward/center, starting with the Toledo Jeeps of the National Basketball League (coached by Wheeling Hall of Famer Jule Rivlin) in 1948. Dick Mehen played with the Waterloo Hawks two years (one in NBL, one in NBA) before playing with three NBA teams in 1950-51 – the Baltimore Bullets, Boston Celtics and Fort Wayne Pistons.

He ended his pro career in 1952 with the Milwaukee Hawks. He earned All-NBL 1st Team honors in 1949. His pro career totals for 193 games were 2,067 points, 505 rebounds, and 480 assists.

Mehen was inducted into the OVAC Hall of Fame, Legends category, and the University of Tennessee Athletic Hall of Fame. He passed away on December 14, 1986, in North Olmsted, Ohio.