Shawnee State University

One of the most successful teams in the history of Shawnee State Athletics is the 1996 NAIA National Runner-Up softball team. Accumulating the fifth best single season winning percentage in NAIA history with a 44-4 overall record, the ’96 softball unit’s seven HOF members are second only to the Shawnee State women’s basketball program’s eight.

This success has led this team to be inducted to the NAIA Hall of Fame. From this team: White, Leah Fickell, Kari Koehn, Renee Walls Davis, Tiffany Shanks-Moore and Brandi Rose Zimmerman were all named to the Shawnee State Athletics Hall of Fame as players well as Ralph Cole being inducted as a Hall of Fame head coach. 

The legacy with the group continues today, as several of the individuals have had kids of their own who have made a large impact on athletics either in the Scioto County landscape, the Shawnee State landscape or both.