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Shantel Ransom was a seven-time MAC Champion and two-time All-American in sprinting and jumping events. She also holds nine school records, was voted "Athlete of the Meet" in two MAC Championship meets, and was twice chosen as the MAC Athlete of the Week. Ransom was 1990's MAC Female Athlete of the Year after being voted MAC Track Championship's "Top Performer." Ransom won MAC titles in the outdoor 100 meters in 1989 and 1990; the outdoor 200 meters in 1989, 1990 and 1991; the long jump in 1990; and was part of the winning 4x100 meter relay champions in 1990. She set MAC records in the 100 and 200 meters in 1990 with times of 11.57 and 23.87, respectively. Ransom represented UT at the National Sports Festival in 1989 and 1990. She also ran a personal best 200m time (23.48) at the 1990 U.S. Olympic Festival. Ransom then represented the U.S. in World University Games in Sheffield, England as well as the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba in 1991. At the Pan American Games, she was the only American to reach the finals and earned a seventh-place finish in the 200 meters. Earning a spot on the Dean's list in 1989, Ransom was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and a Homecoming Court nominee in 1991. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from UT.
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