TOWSON, Md. – Former Towson University All-American midfielder Rob Shek (1988-91) will be inducted as a member of the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame's class of 2019 at ceremonies on November 7, it was announced.

Shek becomes just the second Tiger student-athlete to be inducted into the state's athletic hall of fame. Former Tiger and NFL All-Pro punter Sean Landeta was honored in 2011.

The epitome of the Towson "blue collar" player with a tremendous work ethic that took him to the top of the sport, he was named the USILA's MacLaughlin Award winner as the Division I Midfielder of the Year in 1991 for leading the Tigers to an East Coast Conference championship, a No. 10 final national ranking, a 12-4 season and a trip to the NCAA finals.
 
Hailing from Bel Air, a Harford County public high school where he played for only three years, he worked his way up the college ladder to become Towson's first USILA first team All-American. He is one of two Tigers to be named a Division I Player of the Year as Zach Goodrich was named Midfielder of the Year in 2019.
 
Shek was a co-captain of the 1991 squad that reached the NCAA Division I national championship game where the Tigers bowed to an unbeaten North Carolina team.
 
A second team All-American who scored 30 goals as a junior while leading Towson to the 1990 ECC title, he was a two-time All-ECC selection and the league's Player of the Year as a senior.
 
Later, Shek proved himself again to be among the game's top players as a member of the 1994 and 1998 gold medal winning USA World Teams. He played professionally for the Baltimore Bayhawks and spent eight years in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League and the National Lacrosse League playing for the Philadelphia Wings, the Baltimore Thunder and the Washington Power.
 
A dominant player in club lacrosse, he was the United States Club Lacrosse Association Southern Division Player of the Year in 1992. He became the fourth Tiger to be inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2016, joining Dick Edell, Jim Darcangelo and Bob Griebe. He followed Carl Runk, Wendell Thomas, Darcangelo, Griebe and Edell from the Towson men's program into the US Lacrosse Greater Baltimore Chapter Hall of Fame in 2010. He was inducted into Towson's Hall of Fame in 2005.