Four graduates will be inducted into the Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame on April 28, during the festivities of the Hall of Fame's 30th anniversary. The inductees are (with graduation year): Allison Ankerson Makovec '95 of Virginia Beach, Va; Rodney L. Goodine '91 of Salisbury ; Martin S. Smith ...

Four graduates will be inducted into the Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame on April 28, during the festivities of the Hall of Fame's 30th anniversary.

The inductees are (with graduation year): Allison Ankerson Makovec '95 of Virginia Beach, Va; Rodney L. Goodine '91 of Salisbury ; Martin S. Smith '65 of Asheboro; and Jack S. Ward '51 of Mocksville.
 
The induction ceremony, sponsored by the Catawba College Chiefs Club, will be held on Saturday, April 28, at 12:30 p.m. The luncheon will be held in Kirkland Lobby of the Abernethy Physical Education Center. On Friday, April 27, the Hall of Fame Golf Tournament will be held at The Country Club of Salisbury at 1 p.m.

The Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 1977 and this year's inductees will bring the total number of members to 141.

Following are the achievements of this year's inductees:

ALLISON ANKERSON MAKOVEC
Makovec, who was inducted into the South Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame in 2003, was a two-time All-American in women's soccer, earning first team honors in 1993.

A four-year starter for the Lady Indians (1991-94) as a defensive sweeper, Makovec was also the team's co-captain during his last three years. She helped lead Catawba to the SAC championship in 1993 and the SAC Tournament title in 1993 and 1994. The Lady Indians had an overall record of 46-19-4 and a SAC record of 21-6 during Makovec's career.

Makovec was All-South Atlantic Conference and All-SAC Tournament during all four of her seasons. In addition to her All-American status, Makovec earned All-South Region honors in 1992-94. She was voted as the SAC Player of the Year in 1994.

Despite being a defensive player, Makovec also scored 10 goals and added 11 assists during her 69 career games. 

Also an outstanding tennis player, Makovec earned All-SAC honors in 1993. She and doubles partner Kristen Leatherman won a SAC Doubles championship in 1993 and earned a runner-up finish in 1994.

Makovec won the Lomax Award in April 1995, having been voted the top senior female athlete at Catawba College.

Makovec is a teacher in Norfolk and resides in Virginia Beach with husband, Mark, and their three children.

RODNEY GOODINE
Goodine, originally from Seneca, SC, was a four-year starter (45 games) as a linebacker in football while at Catawba College.

Goodine, who earned All-America honors in 1988 and 1989, helped lead the 1988 Indians to the South Atlantic Conference championship and a playoff berth to the NAIA playoffs.

Having also earned All-SAC first team honors in 1988 and 1989, Goodine was voted the top male athlete in the senior class, winning Catawba's Kirkland Award in April 1990.

Goodine ranks fourth all-time in solo tackles (176) and total tackles (392). He also set a single-game record with 21 tackles against Newberry in 1988. That mark was later eclipsed by fellow Hall of Famer Curtis Walker with 25 in a game against Wofford.

He later returned to Catawba, serving as a volunteer assistant coach in 1995-96 and 1998-99.

Goodine, who has served on Catawba College's Alumni Board, is an intervention specialist with the Rowan Salisbury Schools. He and his wife, Bridgette, reside in Salisbury with their two children.

MARTIN SMITH
Smith was the shortstop on the Catawba College baseball team for four years (1962-65), earning all-state honors from The Greensboro Daily News in 1963.

An All-Carolinas Conference selection for three straight years (1963-65), Smith was elected team captain as a senior. He batted .288 for his career with six home runs and 55 runs batted in, during an era when college baseball teams played much fewer games.

Smith's career-best season came in 1963, when he batted .390 with 21 RBI.

Smith also played basketball at Catawba, scoring 137 points in 39 career games. He won the Aycock Medal as the most outstanding athlete in the senior class in 1965.

Smith went on to a long, illustrious coaching and teaching career at Asheboro High School. He coached basketball for 23 years, winning over 400 games. Smith coached baseball for 11 years, winning over 200 games and coached cross country for 17 years.

Smith received numerous conference Coach of the Year honors – six times in both basketball and baseball and 14 times for cross country.

Smith's teams won championships in basketball, baseball and cross country and he also won titles in the summer with Asheboro's American Legion baseball team. He was inducted into Asheboro High School's Hall of Fame in 2006.

Smith resides in Asheboro with his wife, Martha.

JACK WARD
Ward was an outstanding athlete in two sports at Catawba College, prior to graduation in 1951. He played football and baseball for four years, but baseball may have been his best sport.

Ward started every baseball game during his career compiling a .298 batting average, scoring 72 runs and batting in 54. This also was an era when college baseball played far fewer games than present day schedules.

Ward has a career-best .347 average in 1950 and went on to play two seasons of professional baseball.

During his football career, Ward played on the 1948 Tangerine Bowl team that defeated Marshall, 7-0.

After pro baseball, Ward began a teaching and coaching career at Coolemee High School (1951-56). Ward's football teams at Coolemee compiled a record of 42-3.

Ward then became football coach at Davie County High School for 12 years and his teams went 61-51-9. He was selected as the head coach of the West team in the annual East-West All-Star Football Game in Greensboro. Ward's career football coaching record was 103-54-10.

Ward was also athletic director at Davie High for 17 years and later was principal for 11 years.

Ward became superintendent of Davie County Schools in 1984, a position he held until retirement in 1989.

The Jack Ward Award, originated in 1980, is presented annually to the most outstanding male and female athletes at Davie High School. He also received Catawba College's Medal of Exemplary Life Service in 2001.

Ward, who still resides in Mocksville, was inducted into the Davie County Hall of Fame in 2006.

Four new members will be inducted into the Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, April 30, during the festivities of the Hall of Fame's 34th anniversary. The inductees are (with graduation year): Dwayne Brewington '82 of Montgomery Village, Md.; Lonnie Chandler '63 of New London; Tony DiP...

Four new members will be inducted into the Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, April 30, during the festivities of the Hall of Fame's 34th anniversary.

The inductees are (with graduation year): Dwayne Brewington '82 of Montgomery Village, Md.; Lonnie Chandler '63 of New London; Tony DiPaolo '59 of Smoketown, Pa.; and Monte Jackson Turner '94 of Burlington.

The induction ceremony, sponsored by the Catawba College Chiefs Club, will be held at noon on April 30 during a luncheon in Kirkland Lobby of the Abernethy Physical Education Center. At 1 p.m. on Friday, April 29, the Hall of Fame Golf Tournament will be held at The Country Club of Salisbury.

The Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 1977 and this year's inductees will bring the total number of members to 161.

Following are the achievements of this year's inductees:

DWAYNE BREWINGTON
Brewington was a four-year letter winner in basketball in 1978-82. At 6-7, Brewington was key post player for Catawba teams that compiled an 80-43 during his career.

A two-time All-Carolinas Conference selection (1981 and 1982), Brewington also earned All-NAIA District 26 honors in 1981. As a sophomore, Brewington helped lead the Indians to the 1980 Carolinas Conference Tournament championship, well remembered for the 10-9 final score. It was during the pre-shot clock era and High Point held the ball for most of the contest.

That 1980 title set the tone for the next two years as Catawba went 25-6 and 26-7 during Brewington's junior and senior seasons. The 1982 squad won the District 26 championship and a berth into the NAIA Tournament in Kansas City. The 1981 team fell to Gardner-Webb in the District 26 semifinals.

Brewington scored 1,319 points during his career, which currently ranks 27th all-time at Catawba. He was deadly around the basket and still ranks first all-time in field goal percentage (61.5), making 579 of 941 attempts.

He had single season field goal percentages that still rank third (64.5), sixth (62.3) and ninth (61.3), respectively, at Catawba.

Also a great rebounder, Brewington's 862 boards still rank seventh all-time on the school's rebounding list.

Prior to attending Catawba, Brewington enjoyed a great high school career in Clinton, N.C.

Currently, a minister in Montgomery Village, Md., Brewington is married to Karen Wade Brewington, also a 1982 Catawba College graduate. They have a son, Alexander.

LONNIE CHANDLER
Chandler became synonymous with girls basketball, coaching the sport at North Stanly High School for 33 seasons (1964-1997). During those years, Chandler's teams won 556 games out of 785, a winning percentage of .708.

Chandler, a 1963 Catawba College graduate, also taught at North Stanly High School until 1993.

Chandler's teams had 12 seasons of over 20 wins and the long-time coach experienced only four losing seasons. The Lady Comets won 13 championships under Chandler and at one point, won 34 consecutive games at home.

Chandler's most successful season was in 1976, when North Stanly went 26-0 and won the old Western North Carolina High School Activities Association crown. Krystal Kimrey, a 6'5" center who went on to play at Maryland, was the star of that team.

North Stanly also won state 2-A district championships in 1985 (23-3) and 1991 (24-5).

Chandler was honored by being selected to coach in the East-West All-Star Game in Greensboro as well as the old WNCHSAA All-Star Game.

Chandler performed double duty in 1973 and 1974, when it addition to coaching at North Stanly, he started the women's basketball program at nearby Pfeiffer University. In two years at Pfeiffer, Chandler's teams were 39-17.

Chandler is a member of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Wall of Fame and was inducted into the Stanly County Hall of Fame in 2007.

Since leaving the teaching and coaching ranks, Chandler has been safety and loss prevention coordinator of B.R.S. Inc., a Richfield utility contracting firm.

Chandler resides in New London with his wife, Linda. They have three grown children.

TONY DIPAOLO
DiPaolo was a three-year letter winner in football at Catawba, 1956-58, starting on both the offensive and defensive lines.

Born and reared in Berwick, Pa., DiPaolo was a standout in football, basketball and baseball at Berwick High School, prior to graduation in 1952. He then enrolled at Bloomsburg State College where he started as a freshman on the football team.

DiPaolo then joined the U.S. Marine Corps, played for the Quantico Marines football team, and earned "All-Navy Team" honors. He played in the Poinsettia Bowl, the national all-service championship game.

It was then on to Catawba to complete his education and enjoy a solid career as a football lineman. DiPaolo was nominated for Little All-American honors, in 1958 and earned All-North State Conference honors for three years as a guard. He was also selected to the North Carolina All-State team in 1958.

He was also voted Catawba's Defensive Player of the Year as a senior in 1958.

After graduation from Catawba in 1959, DiPaolo began his coaching career at South Rowan High School in China Grove.

DiPaolo went on to a great coaching career in Pennsylvania, most notably at Catholic High School in Lancaster (1965-90) where he compiled a record of 156-97-6 in 25 seasons (18 winning seasons). He earned numerous Coach of the Year honors. Prior to arriving at Catholic, DiPaolo coached for two years at Solanco High School in Pennsylvania.

While working, DiPaolo found time to return to school and earned a master's degree in health and physical education at West Chester University.

DiPaolo was inducted into the Berwick High School Hall of Fame in 1983, the Lancaster Catholic High School Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Pennsylvania High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 2008.

DiPaolo enjoyed a 43-year career, coaching at the high school and college levels. He taught high school for 39 years, 14 of which also saw DiPaolo serve as vice-principal of student affairs.

He now resides in Smoketown, Pa.

MONTE JACKSON TURNER
Turner was a standout in two sports, volleyball and women's basketball, in 1990-94. She was truly great in each sport, compiling huge statistics in both programs.

In volleyball, Turner was first team All-South Atlantic Conference for three years, 1991-93, after being selected the SAC Freshman of the Year in 1990. She was Catawba's team most valuable player in both 1992 and 1993.

As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC.

Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba. She ranks fourth all-time in career kill percentage (.310), third in career blocks (708) and 10th all-time in serving aces with 122.

Turner, who helped lead Catawba to SAC Tournament championships in 1990 and 1991, ranks first all-time with 290 solo blocks and third in school history with blocks in a match (33).

She was also selected All-NAIA District 26 in 1991 and 1992.

In basketball, Turner played four seasons and compiled 1,085 points. That scoring total ranks her 11th all-time at Catawba. Turner also ranks fifth all-time in rebounding with 792 and was voted the team's best defender as a senior in 1994. Turner also ranks ninth all-time with 50 career blocked shots and ninth all-time in field goal percentage at .460 (426 of 927).

Turner was a member of the 1992-93 squad that went 24-9, won the SAC Tournament championship, the NAIA District 26 championship and set or tied 42 school records. During her career, Catawba's basketball program was 69-41 (.627).

Prior to her arrival at Catawba, Turner hailed from Winston-Salem and North Forsyth High School. The volleyball, basketball and track star was named Forsyth County's Female Athlete of the Year in 1988-89. Turner earned 10 letters in high school and set a then school record, running the 200-yard dash in 24.6 seconds.

Turner is now a financial analyst for Labcorp and resides in Burlington with her husband, Willie, and two sons, Willie Jr., and Milton.

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Four graduates will be inducted into the Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame on April 28, during the festivities of the Hall of Fame's 30th anniversary. The inductees are (with graduation year): Allison Ankerson Makovec '95 of Virginia Beach, Va; Rodney L. Goodine '91 of Salisbury ; Martin S. Smith ...

Four graduates will be inducted into the Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame on April 28, during the festivities of the Hall of Fame's 30th anniversary.

The inductees are (with graduation year): Allison Ankerson Makovec '95 of Virginia Beach, Va; Rodney L. Goodine '91 of Salisbury ; Martin S. Smith '65 of Asheboro; and Jack S. Ward '51 of Mocksville.
 
The induction ceremony, sponsored by the Catawba College Chiefs Club, will be held on Saturday, April 28, at 12:30 p.m. The luncheon will be held in Kirkland Lobby of the Abernethy Physical Education Center. On Friday, April 27, the Hall of Fame Golf Tournament will be held at The Country Club of Salisbury at 1 p.m.

The Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 1977 and this year's inductees will bring the total number of members to 141.

Following are the achievements of this year's inductees:

ALLISON ANKERSON MAKOVEC
Makovec, who was inducted into the South Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame in 2003, was a two-time All-American in women's soccer, earning first team honors in 1993.

A four-year starter for the Lady Indians (1991-94) as a defensive sweeper, Makovec was also the team's co-captain during his last three years. She helped lead Catawba to the SAC championship in 1993 and the SAC Tournament title in 1993 and 1994. The Lady Indians had an overall record of 46-19-4 and a SAC record of 21-6 during Makovec's career.

Makovec was All-South Atlantic Conference and All-SAC Tournament during all four of her seasons. In addition to her All-American status, Makovec earned All-South Region honors in 1992-94. She was voted as the SAC Player of the Year in 1994.

Despite being a defensive player, Makovec also scored 10 goals and added 11 assists during her 69 career games. 

Also an outstanding tennis player, Makovec earned All-SAC honors in 1993. She and doubles partner Kristen Leatherman won a SAC Doubles championship in 1993 and earned a runner-up finish in 1994.

Makovec won the Lomax Award in April 1995, having been voted the top senior female athlete at Catawba College.

Makovec is a teacher in Norfolk and resides in Virginia Beach with husband, Mark, and their three children.

RODNEY GOODINE
Goodine, originally from Seneca, SC, was a four-year starter (45 games) as a linebacker in football while at Catawba College.

Goodine, who earned All-America honors in 1988 and 1989, helped lead the 1988 Indians to the South Atlantic Conference championship and a playoff berth to the NAIA playoffs.

Having also earned All-SAC first team honors in 1988 and 1989, Goodine was voted the top male athlete in the senior class, winning Catawba's Kirkland Award in April 1990.

Goodine ranks fourth all-time in solo tackles (176) and total tackles (392). He also set a single-game record with 21 tackles against Newberry in 1988. That mark was later eclipsed by fellow Hall of Famer Curtis Walker with 25 in a game against Wofford.

He later returned to Catawba, serving as a volunteer assistant coach in 1995-96 and 1998-99.

Goodine, who has served on Catawba College's Alumni Board, is an intervention specialist with the Rowan Salisbury Schools. He and his wife, Bridgette, reside in Salisbury with their two children.

MARTIN SMITH
Smith was the shortstop on the Catawba College baseball team for four years (1962-65), earning all-state honors from The Greensboro Daily News in 1963.

An All-Carolinas Conference selection for three straight years (1963-65), Smith was elected team captain as a senior. He batted .288 for his career with six home runs and 55 runs batted in, during an era when college baseball teams played much fewer games.

Smith's career-best season came in 1963, when he batted .390 with 21 RBI.

Smith also played basketball at Catawba, scoring 137 points in 39 career games. He won the Aycock Medal as the most outstanding athlete in the senior class in 1965.

Smith went on to a long, illustrious coaching and teaching career at Asheboro High School. He coached basketball for 23 years, winning over 400 games. Smith coached baseball for 11 years, winning over 200 games and coached cross country for 17 years.

Smith received numerous conference Coach of the Year honors – six times in both basketball and baseball and 14 times for cross country.

Smith's teams won championships in basketball, baseball and cross country and he also won titles in the summer with Asheboro's American Legion baseball team. He was inducted into Asheboro High School's Hall of Fame in 2006.

Smith resides in Asheboro with his wife, Martha.

JACK WARD
Ward was an outstanding athlete in two sports at Catawba College, prior to graduation in 1951. He played football and baseball for four years, but baseball may have been his best sport.

Ward started every baseball game during his career compiling a .298 batting average, scoring 72 runs and batting in 54. This also was an era when college baseball played far fewer games than present day schedules.

Ward has a career-best .347 average in 1950 and went on to play two seasons of professional baseball.

During his football career, Ward played on the 1948 Tangerine Bowl team that defeated Marshall, 7-0.

After pro baseball, Ward began a teaching and coaching career at Coolemee High School (1951-56). Ward's football teams at Coolemee compiled a record of 42-3.

Ward then became football coach at Davie County High School for 12 years and his teams went 61-51-9. He was selected as the head coach of the West team in the annual East-West All-Star Football Game in Greensboro. Ward's career football coaching record was 103-54-10.

Ward was also athletic director at Davie High for 17 years and later was principal for 11 years.

Ward became superintendent of Davie County Schools in 1984, a position he held until retirement in 1989.

The Jack Ward Award, originated in 1980, is presented annually to the most outstanding male and female athletes at Davie High School. He also received Catawba College's Medal of Exemplary Life Service in 2001.

Ward, who still resides in Mocksville, was inducted into the Davie County Hall of Fame in 2006.

PHOTOS: Hall of Fame Weekend 2010 Four new members will be inducted into the Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame on May 1, during the festivities of the Hall of Fame's 32st anniversary. The inductees are (with graduation year): David Bennett of Conway, S.C.; Reid Bradshaw '67 of Salisbury; Kevin Slo...

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Four new members will be inducted into the Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame on May 1, during the festivities of the Hall of Fame's 32st anniversary.

The inductees are (with graduation year): David Bennett of Conway, S.C.; Reid Bradshaw '67 of Salisbury; Kevin Sloan '88 of Havertown, Pa.; and Jowita Sokolowska '97 of Harelbeke, Belgium.

The induction ceremony, sponsored by the Catawba College Chiefs Club, is scheduled for Saturday, May 1, at 12:00 p.m., following a luncheon in Kirkland Lobby of the Abernethy Physical Education Center. On Friday, April 30, the Hall of Fame Golf Tournament will be held at The Country Club of Salisbury at 1 p.m.

The Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 1977 and this year's inductees will bring the total number of members to 157.

Following are the achievements of this year's inductees:

DAVID BENNETT
Bennett, currently the coach at Coastal Carolina University, is widely recognized as the architect for the modern resurgence of the Catawba College football program.

Taking over a struggling program and a squad that went 2-9 in 1994, Bennett put together and led a coaching staff that took Catawba to a 7-3 mark in 1995. Bennett's teams went on to compile a 63-17 record in seven seasons (1995-2001), including three consecutive NCAA Division II playoffs appearances (1999-2001). The Indians reached the national semifinals during 2001, Bennett's last season at Catawba, falling at Grand Valley State.

Under Bennett, Catawba won three South Atlantic Conference championships (1996, 2000 and 2001). Bennett won SAC Coach of the Year honors four times and was American Football Coaches Association's Region Coach of the Year three times.

Bennett came to Catawba in 1990 as an assistant coach and early on, also coached the Catawba men's golf team, winning the SAC championship in 1995.

While at Catawba, Bennett expanded the football program's volunteer service activities in the community and was active as a public speaker. Bennett and his teams' successes were instrumental in the rebuilding of Shuford Stadium, though he had gone before the project was completed.

At Coastal Carolina, Bennett began a new program from scratch and the Chanticleers' first season in 2003 saw a winning record of 6-5. In seven seasons at Coastal, Bennett's teams are 45-23, giving him a career total record of 108-40 in 14 years.

Reared in Cheraw, S.C., Bennett was an outstanding quarterback in high school, leading Cheraw to a state championship in 1979. Bennett played football and golf at Presbyterian College before graduating in 1984. He earned a master's degree at Clemson while serving as a graduate assistant coach there.

Bennett resides in Conway, S.C., with his wife, Melanie, and children, Hayes (16) and Jeb (13).

REID BRADSHAW
Bradshaw was an offensive tackle at Catawba (1963-66) for four years, starting for three seasons. A team favorite for his great blocking, Bradshaw earned All-NAIA District 26 and honorable mention All-American honors as a junior in 1965.

After graduating from Catawba in 1967, and earning a master's in education degree at N.C. A&T State, Bradshaw became head football coach at South Rowan High School, where his teams compiled a record of 78-48-3. Bradshaw was Rowan County Coach of the Year five times and conference coach of the year four times. Bradshaw's South teams earned playoff berths in seven seasons.

Bradshaw also coached the West team in the 1980 East-West High School All-Star Classic in Greensboro and as athletic director at South, oversaw a total program that won 28 championships in 12 years.

Bradshaw then switched careers and has enjoyed a successful insurance business for many years. He owns and operates Reid Bradshaw and Associates of China Grove.

Bradshaw has also been very active in the Catawba College Chiefs Club and resides in Salisbury with his wife, Norma. He has two grown sons, Dwight and Trent.

KEVIN SLOAN
Sloan, a three-time All-American on Catawba's men's soccer teams of the mid-1980s, started as a forward/striker during his entire career (1984-87).

Sloan still remains at the top of Catawba's all-time goals scored list with 59. He also added 26 assists. He was a first team NAIA All-American as a sophomore in 1985 and was NAIA District 26 Player of the Year in 1985 and 1987.

A key component of the teams that dominated in the mid-1980s, Sloan led the Indians to three Carolinas Conference championships and three NAIA District 26 titles. During his career, Sloan played on teams that compiled a record of 58-26-1, including a 31-match winning streak against District 26 opponents.

In 1985, Sloan scored 19 goals, including seven game-winning scores. He had a goal that lifted the Indians to a 2-1 victory at Wake Forest and a fantastic four-goal performance in a 5-3 win over Pfeiffer.

Sloan was also a leader on the 1986 team that achieved Catawba's best-ever soccer record of 17-4. That season saw a 2-1 victory over Duke, who went to win the NCAA championship. Sloan scored both goals in that game, a win that sent shock waves throughout the nation.

Sloan was voted the Kirkland Award winner as the top male athlete in the senior class in 1988 and following graduation from Catawba, was a first round draft choice of the Chicago Sting on the MISL.

Sloan enjoyed a long professional career, mostly with the Philadelphia Kixx of an indoor pro league, from1996-2004. He served as an assistant coach with the Kixx (2004-08) and assisted the soccer team at Philadelphia University.

Since 2006, Sloan has been head coach at Neumann University in Aston, Pa., an NCAA Division III program. Since 2002, Sloan has run the Kevin Sloan Soccer Academy Inc., where he focuses on the development of children between the ages of 5-18.

Sloan and his wife, Tracey, reside in Havertown, Pa. They have two daughers, Charlotte and Amelia, and a son, Oliver.

JOWITA SOKOLOWSKA
An outstanding all-around student athlete, Sokolowska was a women's basketball player for four seasons (1993-97) at Catawba. She had heard about Catawba at a camp in Belgium where one of the guest instructors that summer was Catawba men's coach Jim Baker.

Sokolowska quickly won over her teammates and fans with her abilities to score from both inside and long range. She still remains as Catawba's fourth all-time leading scorer with 1,679 points and her 40-point performance in a single game (vs. Barber-Scotia in 1995) was a school record at that time. She also owns a school record with nine games of scoring 30 or more points.

Sokolowska also holds the school record for career free throw shooting, making 78.9 percent of her shots (408 of 517). She shot 84 percent from the line in 1997, a record for attempts over 100, making 160 of 191). Sokolowska also holds school rankings in points in a season (fifth with 580 in 1997) and career blocks (eighth with 62).

Known as "Yo" to many, Sokolowska was team captain and most valuable player in 1996 and 1997 and was voted as the recipient of the Lomax Award (top female athlete in the senior class) in 1997. During her four seasons, Catawba's overall record was 65-43.

A three-time first team All-South Atlantic Conference selection (1995-97), Sokolowska was the SAC Player of the Year in 1997 as a senior.

Solid in the classroom as well, Sokolowska was the SAC Women's Basketball Scholar Athlete Award winner in 1996 and 1997. She graduated from Catawba in 1997 with a 3.66 GPA, majoring in international business.

After playing professionally in Belgium (1997-2000) and Poland (2000-01), Sokolowska returned to the U.S. in 2001 to earned a master's degree and work as an assistant basketball coach at Gardner-Webb University. She completed an international master of business degree with a 3.90 GPA, in 2003.

Sokolowska concluded her basketball career in 2005 and is owner and managing director of a Belgian consulting and recruitment company, specializing in European cross boarder employment. She is often employed as a guest speaker about international employment and is a partner in a cleaning company that employs 20 people.

Sokolowska is single and resides in Harelbeke, Belgium.

Registration
Reservations are required for all events. Tickets for the induction are $15 per person and are available through the Development Office by calling (704) 637-4394 or by registering online. This is the 33rd year for the Hall of Fame and the inclusion of these four newest bring the total in the Hall to 157.

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