University of Toledo
Women’s Student-Athletes and Coaches in the Varsity T Hall of Fame
Basketball
Khali Carter-Wilson
Basketball - 1997-2001
Kahli Carter-Wilson made first-team All-MAC and NCAA All-District VI as a senior in 2000-01 and ranks 11th all-time in scoring with 1,258 points. But she is probably best known for perhaps the greatest individual performance in school history when she scored 33 of her 36 points after halftime to lead Toledo to a 74-65 overtime victory over Kent State in the 2001 MAC Championship Game, earning tournament MVP honors. Toledo trailed that game at halftime, 38-15. Carter played on two MAC Championship teams (1999 and 2001), two NCAA Tournament teams (1999 and 2001) and one WNIT team (1998). She made honorable mention All-MAC as a junior and made the MAC All-Freshman team in 1997-98. She averaged 17.5 points and 8.8 rebounds as senior, and 10.0 points and 5.2 rebounds as a junior. She is married to former Rocket basketball player Albert Wilson.
Kimberly D’Angelo
Basketball - 1993-97
A four-year letterwinner, D’Angelo was a member of three NCAA tournament teams in 1995, 1996 and 1997, starting in the latter two. Her junior season, she was named honorable-mention All-MAC. In the 1997 tournament, she earned a spot on the MAC All-Tournament Team.
Tia Davis
Basketball - 1999-2003
Davis was a three-year starter for the Rockets, leading UT to a 62-27 record in that span. Davis is a 1,000 point scorer, ranking 18th all time with 1,099 points. She earned first-team All-MAC honors as a senior in 2003-03 despite missing the final 10 games of the season with a knee injury.
Angela Drake
Basketball - 1993-97
Drake was a key piece for a Rockets team that won three straight MAC titles and earned three trips to the NCAA Tournament in 1995, 1996 and 1997. She was voted the 1996-97 MAC Player of the Year after being runner-up as a sophomore and as a junior. She was also a three-time first-team All-MAC selection, a three-time All-MAC Tournament selection and the co-MVP of the 1995 MAC Tournament. Drake ranks third in career scoring at UT with 1,952 points and is the all-time leader in rebounds with 1,087.
Dana Drew
Basketball - 1990-95
Drew lettered as a point guard from 1990-1995, leading UT to three NCAA appearances and one WNIT berth. In that time, UT won three regular season MAC titles and three MAC Tournament Championships. Drew was named MAC Player of the Year and first-team All-MAC her sophomore and junior years, when she led the team in scoring. She was named to the MAC All-Tournament team on four occasions and was the MAC Tournament MVP three times. Drew also played for the United States Olympic Festival team her sophomore year. Drew is the all-time career assists leader and fourth in scoring.
Latoja Harris
Basketball - 1991-94
Harris was named the top women’s basketball player in the MAC for the 1992-93 season when she shot a conference-record 64 percent from the floor. That year, she was an All-American candidate and was named All-American honorable mention by Basketball Times magazine. Harris finished her Rocket career as a thousand point scorer and eighth all time in scoring after scoring in double figures each game her junior and senior seasons. She ranks second in blocked shots and rebounding average in UT history.
Linda Janicki
Basketball - 1980-84
Janicki, the first woman to be inducted into the Varsity “T” Hall of Fame, was an All-MAC first-team selection in 1984 and second-team selection in 1983. She finished her career as a thousand point scorer, with her 1,477 total points ranking eighth in UT history. She is second in career rebounds and the record holder in rebounds per game.
Kim Knuth
Basketball - 1995-99
Knuth is considered to be the greatest women’s basketball player in UT history and potentially the best ever in the MAC. She was a two-time MAC Player of the Year in 1997-98 and 1998-99, a three-time first-team All-MAC selection and the MAC Tournament MVP in 1999. Knuth also added an honorable mention All-America from AP in 1998-99. She is the all-time leading scorer in Toledo and MAC history with 2,509 points and led the team in scoring her sophomore, junior and senior seasons. Knuth is also first in steals, fourth in assists and eighth in rebounds in UT history.
Lucretia LeGault
Basketball - 1989-92
LeGault was a key member of the team that went 100-28 from 1989-92. She won MAC Freshman of the Year in 1988-89, earned an All-MAC second-team selection as a junior in 1990-91, and an honorable mention All-MAC as a senior in 1991-92. LeGault led the team in rebounding in 1990-91 and 1991-92, placing her fourth in career rebounds. She was also a deadeye from beyond the arc, knocking down 160 three-pointers in her career. She ranks third in career games played; tied for fourth in field goals attempted; and fifth in steals and three-point field goals attempted.
Mimi Olson
Basketball - 1993-97
Olson debuted in 1993-94 as the MAC Freshman of the Year and never looked back, earning second-team All-MAC honors as a sophomore and first team All-MAC honors her junior and senior seasons. She is second on UT's career scoring list with 2,144 points, and is among the leaders in three-point field goals, free throw percentage and steals.
Courtney Risinger
Basketball - 1998-2002
Risinger was a three-year starter for the women’s basketball team, earning second-team All-MAC honors as a senior. She was deadly from behind the arc, ranking third in three-point field goals and fourth in three-point field goal percentage in UT history. She also holds the record for three-point field goal percentage in a season and a record-tying eight three-pointers in one game. Risinger, a thousand point scorer, also ranks 18th in Toledo career scoring.
Jane Roman
Basketball - 1989-92
Roman played for the Rockets from 1989-1992 before moving to the bench as an assistant coach from 1992-1997. During that span, the Rockets advanced to the NCAA Tournament five times. As a player, Roman joined the thousand point club, placing 19th all time on UT’s career scoring list. She is the career record holder in free throw percentage and is third in three-pointer field goal percentage.
Kelly Savage
Basketball - 1987-90
Savage, a four-year starter for the Rockets, helped build the tradition that defines the program today. She led the team to two WNIT Tournament berths, both of which the Rockets finished in the top-three in. She was named MAC Freshman of the Year following her freshman 1986-97 season, and never looked back, leading the team in scoring the next three seasons. At the end of her Rocket career, Savage was the all-time leading scorer with 1,677 points and held 23 records, including field goals attempted, three-point field goals attempted and made, three-point field goal percentage, free throws attempted and made, free throw percentage, assists, minutes played, and games played. She was also third all-time in MAC scoring, and her 255 three-point field goals placed her first in conference history and second in NCAA women’s basketball history.
Kim Sekulski
Basketball - 1988-91
Sekulsi, a three time All-MAC honoree, helped propel the Rockets to new heights. She won MAC Player of the Year in her final season when UT won its first ever conference title, and had its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Sekulski and the Rockets also made two WNIT appearances, finishing second in 1990 with Sekulski winning the tournament MVP award. She ranks third all-time in career rebounds and holds the MAC record for most points in a single game with 42.
Naama Shafir
Basketball - 2008-13
Shafir was a four-time All-MAC selection, and is one of two players in program history to earn four all-conference accolades. In her time with the Rockets, they won four consecutive MAC West Division crowns, two MAC regular season titles and advanced to the postseason each year. In 2009-10, Shafir led a WNIT Championship team and won MVP after scoring 40 points against USC in the championship game in Savage Arena. When Shafir wrapped up her college career, she ranked first in assists, minutes played, games played and games started.
Inma Zanoguera
Basketball - 2011-15
Zanoguera was a three-time All-MAC honoree in her time with the Rockets from 2011-15. In that span, UT averaged 22 wins per season, won one MAC regular season championship and two division crowns. As a senior, she earned All-MAC honors and was selected as one of 30 NCAA women’s basketball nominees for the 2014-15 Senior CLASS Award, making her the second player in school history to make the list. Zanoguera ranks fourth in career minutes, fifth in free throw percentage and games played, and seventh in steals.
Cross Country/Track & Field
Candy Campbell
Track - 1992-94
Campbell lettered in track as a long jumper and triple jumper from 1992-1994. Shewas an NCAA Division I All-American in the long jump in 1992 and a four-time MAC champion. She was a 1992 Olympic Trials qualifier in the long jump and her leap of 21-0 in 1992 still stands as a MAC outdoor record. Campbell holds the UT record for outdoor triple jump, indoor triple jump, and indoor long jump, and ran on the record holding 4x200 relay team.
Ari Fisher
Cross Country/Track and Field - 2007-12
Fisher made the All-MAC team six times in her career as a distance runner, three times in cross country and three times in track and field. She is one of only five runners in MAC history to win back-to-back cross country titles, achieving that feat in 2009 and 2010. She also qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championship Meet three times in her career and earned All-American honors in 2010. In 2010, she was named the league’s Outstanding Distance Runner after winning the 5K by more than 26 seconds at the 2010 Indoor Championships. She followed up that strong year by setting the MAC record in the 5K at the Iowa State meet with a time of 16:04.56, which was one of the top-10 fastest times in the world that year.
Emma Kertesz
Cross Country/Track - 2008-12
Kertesz, a two-time All-MAC selection in track and cross country, won four MAC titles as well as earning All-America honors in the 10,000 meters. As a senior in 2012, she was named Most Valuable Performer at both the MAC Indoor and Outdoor Championship meets. She broke the school and MAC record for the mile at the indoor meet, leading UT to a second-place showing, its highest ever showing at the indoor championship. Kertesz also won championships in the steeplechase and the 5000 in the 2012 outdoor championship and the 5000 in the 2012 indoor championship. She is the MAC record holder in the 10,000 meters, and ranks top-10 in school history in the 1500, steeplechase and 5000.
Shantel Ransom
Track - 1989-91
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 1990’s MAC Female Athlete of the Year after being voted MAC Track Championship’s Top Performer. She set MAC records in the 100 and 200 meters in 1990. Ransom represented UT at the National Sports Festival in 1989 and 1990, and at the World University Games in Sheffield, England as well as the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba in 1991.
Briana Shook
Cross Country/Track - 2000-04
Shook, one of the most decorated student-athletes in UT and MAC history, was a three-time All-American in both cross country and track and field. Over the course of her career, she won 11 MAC titles and added three runner-up finishes, as well. She was a three-time MAC champion in the indoor 3,000, twice in the indoor 5,000. In 2004, she was named MAC Outdoor Championship Meet Most Valuable Performer and was named NCAA Mideast Track and Field Athlete of the Year. During the summer of 2004, Shook made history by regaining her American record in the 3000-meter steeplechase with ehr 9:29.32 clocking in Belgium, a time that was fourth best in the world that year and still ranks in the top-20.
Sara Vergote
Cross Country/Track - 1998-2002
Vergote was a three-time All-MAC selection, two-time NCAA qualifier and a three-time NCAA Region Team honoree in cross country and track. She won one MAC Championship (10,000 meters) and was a runner-up in two others. In the 2002 MAC Cross Country Championship, she finished second behind teammate Briana Shook and qualified for the NCAA Championship. Vergote pulled off an impressive triple at the 2002 MAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships by winning the 10,000 meters, finishing second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and finishing third in the 5,000 meters. She ranks fifth all-time in the MAC in the steeplechase.
April Williams
Track and Field - 2003-07
Williams was a two-time All-American who won four MAC track & field long jump and triple jump titles in her career. She was voted the MAC Indoor Field Event Performer of the Year at the 2006 MAC Indoor Championship after she won both the long jump and triple jump, setting the indoor meet record in long jump. As a senior, she repeated the double championships at the 2007 MAC Outdoor Championship Meet, capturing the triple jump and the long jump. Williams is still the school record holder in both indoor/outdoor long jump and triple jump.
Golf
Jessica Popiel Stone
Golf - 1996-99
Popiel Stone was the MAC Player of the Year and a first-team All-MAC selection as a senior in 1999. She also made the MAC All-Tournament Team in 1998, a year in which the Rockets won the MAC Invitational Tournament. She was a tournament medalist twice in her career. A four-year letterwinner, Popiel Stone was the first Rocket to compete in an LPGA Tour event, playing in the Jamie Farr Classic in 1999.
Softball
Patty Barrett-Recker
Softball, Volleyball - 1986-90
Barrett-Recker earned four varsity letters in both volleyball (1986-89) and softball (1987-90). She set the school record for digs in a single season in 1988 with 484. On the diamond, Barrett-Recker pitched a no-hitter her freshman year. She was named All-MAC in 1989 when she recorded 14 wins, 49 strikeouts and a 1.19 ERA that helped the Rockets win a conference championship and place seventh at the College World Series.
Christin Chadwick Lucas
Softball - 1989-92
Chadwick was a two-time All-MAC pitcher and also earned All-Mideast Region honors in 1992. In 1992, she pitched a school-record 256 innings. Chadwick was a member of the 1989 and 1992 MAC Championship teams and the seventh-place College World Series team in 1989. On UT’s career list, she ranks first in wins, second in winning percentage, second in game appearances, third in ERA, third in innings pitched, fourth in strikeouts and fifth in starts. On the season list, Chadwick ranks second and third in wins; second and third in winning percentage; second in games pitched; and first in innings pitched.
Amy Galvan
Softball - 1992-95
Galvan was a four-year starter at first base and earned first-team All MAC honors in 1993 and 1994. She was also an All-Mideast Region Team nominee in 1994 and 1994. Galvan won the MAC batting crown as a sophomore in 1993 with a .418 average, the fourth-highest mark in UT history. A member of the 1992 College World Series and MAC Championship team, Galvan ranks second in UT in career batting average, hits, RBIs, slugging percentage and doubles.
Tami Johnston
Softball - 1984-87
Johnston is a softball letterwinner from 1984-87. She was the igniting force on the mound for UT’s turnaround from a last-place team to a first-place team in a two year period. Johnston was an All-MAC player three years in a row and the first Mideast All-Region selection for UT. Johnston ranks first in ERA, strikeouts, innings and winning percentage; second in career wins and appearances; and fourth in starts in Rocket history. She is also the MAC single-season strikeout leader, with 239 in 1986.
Rhonda King-Randolph
Softball - 1987-90
King-Randolph was the first female athlete in Toledo history to earn All-America first-team honors and was a three-time All-MAC performer. She rewrote the Rocket record books in her time on the diamond, and is still the all-time school leader in slugging percentage, doubles, home runs, runs batted in, total bases and walks.
Kelly Meinhart
Softball - 1985-88
Meinhart was first-team All-MAC twice in her career - as a catcher in 1987 and a designated hitter in 1988. In her time at UT, the Rockets won the regular-season MAC title in 1985 and finished second in the conference in 1986 and 1987. Meinhart is the record holder for triples in a season and triples in a career.
Lena Richards-Crider
Softball - 1994-96
Richard-Crider was a two-time first-team All-MAC selection in 1995 and 19996. After a 1995 season where she led the Rockets in slugging percentage, runs, hits, at-bats, doubles, sacrifices, total bases, stolen bases, and home runs, she was named to the first-team All-Mideast Region list.
Leigh Ross
Softball - 1988-91
Ross, one of the best hitters in the nation during her time at UT, has the first and second best season batting averages in school history. She was named first-team All-MAC and second-team All-American in her senior season in 1991 after finishing fifth in the nation in batting average and first in stolen bases. Ross is the UT career record holder for batting average, hits, total bases and stolen bases. She is also in the top 20 in NCAA softball history with 296 career hits.
Cheryl Sprangel
Softball - 1984-97
Sprangel was the coach for the Rockets softball team for 14 years, racking up 461 career victories and 12 winning seasons. When she took over, the team was in just its fourth year of existence and coming off a 3-24 season. With Sprangel at the helm, her teams won MAC titles in 1985, 1989 and 1992 and had six second-place finishes. Her teams qualified for the NCAA tournament in 1989 and 1992. In 1989, the Rockets won the NCAA Mideast Regional Championship and advanced to the College World Series, where they placed seventh. Sprangel also won three MAC Coach of the Year awards in 1985, 1989 and 1992.
Brenda Steinbrunner
Softball - 1986-89
Steinbrunner was a two-time All-MAC selection, three-time Academic All-MAC selection and a two-time Academic All-American. An outfielder, Steinbrunner is the school record holder for doubles in a single season.
Leslie Strong
Softball - 2005-08
Strong was a three-time All-MAC honoree as a first baseman. She is the Rockets’ all-time leader in home runs, walks and on-base percentage, and is second in slugging percentage. In the MAC record books, Strong is first in career walks and seventh in career homers.
Soccer
Molly Cornwell
Soccer - 2006-09
Cornwell in 2007 and 2008 won MAC Player of the Year, and in 2006, was second team All-MAC and a member of the MAC All-Freshman Team.She scored 33 goals across her four year career, which is tied for second in UT history. Cornwell is the record holder for goals in a season and assists with 30, which is 13 more than the No. 2 assist leader. She also holds the record for points in a season and career.
Shauna Cottrell
Soccer - 1996-2000
Cottrell was a two-time All-MAC honoree as a midfielder, making second-team All-MAC as a junior in 1997 and first-team All-MAC as a senior in 1998. As a senior, she also made third-team Great Lakes Region and All-Ohio first-team. Her team honors include Team MVP and Offensive MVP in 1998, Defensive MVP in 1997 and Most Improved Player in 1997. She tied for the team lead with seven goals in 1998, while leading the team in shots on goal.
Vicki Traven
Soccer - 2008-11
Traven was a two-time All-MAC goalkeeper who led the Rockets to MAC Championships and NCAA appearances in 2008 and 2011, as well as a MAC regular-season title in 2010. In her four seasons at Toledo, Traven had a MAC-record 34 shutouts. She earned MAC Freshman of the Year in 2008, second-team All-MAC honors in 2010, and first-team All-MAC honors in 2012. Traven also holds almost all of Toledo’s goalkeeping records, including most victories, shutouts, and best goals-against average, along with season makers for victories, shutouts, and GAA.
Swimming & Diving
Jacy Dyer
Swimming - 2007-11
Dyer was a four-time All-MAC swimmer and 10-time MAC champion in her career. She also had six other top-three finishes at MAC Championship meets. At the conclusion of her career, Dyer held more than 20 UT, MAC and pool records. She was named MAC Swimmer of the Year twice in 2009-10 and 2010-11 and earned UT Female Athlete of the Year in 2009-10.
Erin Jamieson
Swimming - 1992-96
Jamieson was a two-time recipient of the Ruth Hawkins Heldt Most Valuable Swimmer Award (1993 and 1996). At one time she held school records in the 50-backstroke, 100-backstroke, 200-backstroke, 200-individual medley and 100-butterfly. She also set school records as a member of the 200- and 400-medley relay teams on numerous occasions. At the MAC Championships, Jamieson placed in the top three in the 100-butterfly, 100-backstroke and 200-backstroke in four consecutive seasons.
Laura Lindsay
Swimming - 2008-12
Lindsay was a two-time All-American and three-time All-MAC swimmer who helped lead Toledo to MAC Championships in 2010 and 2012. She earned All-America honors in the breaststroke in 2011 and 2012, the only Rocket woman swimmer to make All-America twice in her career. In 2012, Lindsay swam the fifth-fastest time at the NCAA Championships in the 100-yard breaststroke, swimming in the “B” final and winning the event. She also swam the 200-yard breaststroke at the NCAA Championships twice, making her a four-time NCAA qualifier. Her senior season, she was a USA Olympic top-10 qualifier in the 100- and 200-breaststroke, and a top-25 qualifier in 2016.
Megan McKinley-Deal
Diving - 2004-08
McKinley-Deal was one of the best divers in UT history, earning All-MAC honors in her junior and senior seasons. She is one of only four women in the history of the UT swimming & diving program to earn All-America honors. In her senior year, McKinley was an NCAA qualifier, MAC Diver of the Year, and first-team All-MAC selection. With her points alone, UT was ranked 33rd overall in scoring at the NCAAs. McKinley still holds both the one- and three-meter school records.
Reyna Smith
Diving - 1993-97
Smith is the most dominating female diver in MAC history, winning MAC Diver of the Year four times and named NCAA All-American in the three-meter in 1995. Smith was a seven-time MAC Champion, having won the three-meter board in 1994, ‘95, ‘96 and ‘97. She is the MAC and UT record holder on the three-meter board (493.60) and the UT record holder in the one-meter (417.90).
Tennis
Myriam Cueva-Neville
Tennis - 2003-07
Cueva was a three-time All-MAC tennis player who also earned team MVP honors four times. When she was named first-team All-MAC as a sophomore in 2005, she became the first UT women’s tennis player to make first-team all-league in 12 years. As a sophomore, Cueva had a winning streak of seven matches, including MAC wins over Buffalo, Akron and Miami.
Lisa Donnelly Denstorff
Tennis - 1986-90
Lisa Donnelly was a four-time All-MAC selection and 1990 MAC Champion at No. 1 singles, the only UT woman to win a MAC singles title. She was named team MVP four consecutive seasons, playing at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles in all four of those years. The team captain in her junior and senior years, Donnelly earned Academic All-MAC honors in 1990.
Fabiana Zilberstein Rezak
Tennis - 1990-93
Zilberstein Rezak competed at the No. 1 singles spot for three years for the Rockets and was a three-time first-team All-MAC selection, earning the honor in 1990-91, 1991-92 and 1992-93. As a junior, she finished fourth at the MAC Championships following a 20-10 record at the top singles position. In her final year with the Rockets, she posted a 13-6 overall record.
Volleyball
Kate Bean McCauley
Volleyball - 2003-06
Bean dominates the Toledo record book, ranking first in career attacks, second in career kills and career service aces, third in career kills per set and fifth in career digs. Her 39 digs vs. Ball State as a senior are the most ever by a Rocket in a match. Off the court, Bean is the only UT volleyball player to be named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team, earning those honors in both 2005 and 2006, and is one of only two Rockets in any sport to be a member of the first team on more than one occasion.
DeSeana Williams
Volleyball - 1990-93
Williams is the only Rocket volleyball player to be selected first-team All-MAC. A three-time All-MAC selection, Williams was voted MAC Freshman of the Year in 1990 and is the only Rocket to ever receive this honor. She ranks second in school history in three categories: kills per game in a season, career kills per game and career digs per game.
Women’s Student-Athletes and Coaches in the Varsity T Hall of Fame
Basketball
Khali Carter-Wilson
Basketball - 1997-2001
Kahli Carter-Wilson made first-team All-MAC and NCAA All-District VI as a senior in 2000-01 and ranks 11th all-time in scoring with 1,258 points. But she is probably best known for perhaps the greatest individual performance in school history when she scored 33 of her 36 points after halftime to lead Toledo to a 74-65 overtime victory over Kent State in the 2001 MAC Championship Game, earning tournament MVP honors. Toledo trailed that game at halftime, 38-15. Carter played on two MAC Championship teams (1999 and 2001), two NCAA Tournament teams (1999 and 2001) and one WNIT team (1998). She made honorable mention All-MAC as a junior and made the MAC All-Freshman team in 1997-98. She averaged 17.5 points and 8.8 rebounds as senior, and 10.0 points and 5.2 rebounds as a junior. She is married to former Rocket basketball player Albert Wilson.
Kimberly D’Angelo
Basketball - 1993-97
A four-year letterwinner, D’Angelo was a member of three NCAA tournament teams in 1995, 1996 and 1997, starting in the latter two. Her junior season, she was named honorable-mention All-MAC. In the 1997 tournament, she earned a spot on the MAC All-Tournament Team.
Tia Davis
Basketball - 1999-2003
Davis was a three-year starter for the Rockets, leading UT to a 62-27 record in that span. Davis is a 1,000 point scorer, ranking 18th all time with 1,099 points. She earned first-team All-MAC honors as a senior in 2003-03 despite missing the final 10 games of the season with a knee injury.
Angela Drake
Basketball - 1993-97
Drake was a key piece for a Rockets team that won three straight MAC titles and earned three trips to the NCAA Tournament in 1995, 1996 and 1997. She was voted the 1996-97 MAC Player of the Year after being runner-up as a sophomore and as a junior. She was also a three-time first-team All-MAC selection, a three-time All-MAC Tournament selection and the co-MVP of the 1995 MAC Tournament. Drake ranks third in career scoring at UT with 1,952 points and is the all-time leader in rebounds with 1,087.
Dana Drew
Basketball - 1990-95
Drew lettered as a point guard from 1990-1995, leading UT to three NCAA appearances and one WNIT berth. In that time, UT won three regular season MAC titles and three MAC Tournament Championships. Drew was named MAC Player of the Year and first-team All-MAC her sophomore and junior years, when she led the team in scoring. She was named to the MAC All-Tournament team on four occasions and was the MAC Tournament MVP three times. Drew also played for the United States Olympic Festival team her sophomore year. Drew is the all-time career assists leader and fourth in scoring.
Latoja Harris
Basketball - 1991-94
Harris was named the top women’s basketball player in the MAC for the 1992-93 season when she shot a conference-record 64 percent from the floor. That year, she was an All-American candidate and was named All-American honorable mention by Basketball Times magazine. Harris finished her Rocket career as a thousand point scorer and eighth all time in scoring after scoring in double figures each game her junior and senior seasons. She ranks second in blocked shots and rebounding average in UT history.
Linda Janicki
Basketball - 1980-84
Janicki, the first woman to be inducted into the Varsity “T” Hall of Fame, was an All-MAC first-team selection in 1984 and second-team selection in 1983. She finished her career as a thousand point scorer, with her 1,477 total points ranking eighth in UT history. She is second in career rebounds and the record holder in rebounds per game.
Kim Knuth
Basketball - 1995-99
Knuth is considered to be the greatest women’s basketball player in UT history and potentially the best ever in the MAC. She was a two-time MAC Player of the Year in 1997-98 and 1998-99, a three-time first-team All-MAC selection and the MAC Tournament MVP in 1999. Knuth also added an honorable mention All-America from AP in 1998-99. She is the all-time leading scorer in Toledo and MAC history with 2,509 points and led the team in scoring her sophomore, junior and senior seasons. Knuth is also first in steals, fourth in assists and eighth in rebounds in UT history.
Lucretia LeGault
Basketball - 1989-92
LeGault was a key member of the team that went 100-28 from 1989-92. She won MAC Freshman of the Year in 1988-89, earned an All-MAC second-team selection as a junior in 1990-91, and an honorable mention All-MAC as a senior in 1991-92. LeGault led the team in rebounding in 1990-91 and 1991-92, placing her fourth in career rebounds. She was also a deadeye from beyond the arc, knocking down 160 three-pointers in her career. She ranks third in career games played; tied for fourth in field goals attempted; and fifth in steals and three-point field goals attempted.
Mimi Olson
Basketball - 1993-97
Olson debuted in 1993-94 as the MAC Freshman of the Year and never looked back, earning second-team All-MAC honors as a sophomore and first team All-MAC honors her junior and senior seasons. She is second on UT's career scoring list with 2,144 points, and is among the leaders in three-point field goals, free throw percentage and steals.
Courtney Risinger
Basketball - 1998-2002
Risinger was a three-year starter for the women’s basketball team, earning second-team All-MAC honors as a senior. She was deadly from behind the arc, ranking third in three-point field goals and fourth in three-point field goal percentage in UT history. She also holds the record for three-point field goal percentage in a season and a record-tying eight three-pointers in one game. Risinger, a thousand point scorer, also ranks 18th in Toledo career scoring.
Jane Roman
Basketball - 1989-92
Roman played for the Rockets from 1989-1992 before moving to the bench as an assistant coach from 1992-1997. During that span, the Rockets advanced to the NCAA Tournament five times. As a player, Roman joined the thousand point club, placing 19th all time on UT’s career scoring list. She is the career record holder in free throw percentage and is third in three-pointer field goal percentage.
Kelly Savage
Basketball - 1987-90
Savage, a four-year starter for the Rockets, helped build the tradition that defines the program today. She led the team to two WNIT Tournament berths, both of which the Rockets finished in the top-three in. She was named MAC Freshman of the Year following her freshman 1986-97 season, and never looked back, leading the team in scoring the next three seasons. At the end of her Rocket career, Savage was the all-time leading scorer with 1,677 points and held 23 records, including field goals attempted, three-point field goals attempted and made, three-point field goal percentage, free throws attempted and made, free throw percentage, assists, minutes played, and games played. She was also third all-time in MAC scoring, and her 255 three-point field goals placed her first in conference history and second in NCAA women’s basketball history.
Kim Sekulski
Basketball - 1988-91
Sekulsi, a three time All-MAC honoree, helped propel the Rockets to new heights. She won MAC Player of the Year in her final season when UT won its first ever conference title, and had its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Sekulski and the Rockets also made two WNIT appearances, finishing second in 1990 with Sekulski winning the tournament MVP award. She ranks third all-time in career rebounds and holds the MAC record for most points in a single game with 42.
Naama Shafir
Basketball - 2008-13
Shafir was a four-time All-MAC selection, and is one of two players in program history to earn four all-conference accolades. In her time with the Rockets, they won four consecutive MAC West Division crowns, two MAC regular season titles and advanced to the postseason each year. In 2009-10, Shafir led a WNIT Championship team and won MVP after scoring 40 points against USC in the championship game in Savage Arena. When Shafir wrapped up her college career, she ranked first in assists, minutes played, games played and games started.
Inma Zanoguera
Basketball - 2011-15
Zanoguera was a three-time All-MAC honoree in her time with the Rockets from 2011-15. In that span, UT averaged 22 wins per season, won one MAC regular season championship and two division crowns. As a senior, she earned All-MAC honors and was selected as one of 30 NCAA women’s basketball nominees for the 2014-15 Senior CLASS Award, making her the second player in school history to make the list. Zanoguera ranks fourth in career minutes, fifth in free throw percentage and games played, and seventh in steals.
Cross Country/Track & Field
Candy Campbell
Track - 1992-94
Campbell lettered in track as a long jumper and triple jumper from 1992-1994. Shewas an NCAA Division I All-American in the long jump in 1992 and a four-time MAC champion. She was a 1992 Olympic Trials qualifier in the long jump and her leap of 21-0 in 1992 still stands as a MAC outdoor record. Campbell holds the UT record for outdoor triple jump, indoor triple jump, and indoor long jump, and ran on the record holding 4x200 relay team.
Ari Fisher
Cross Country/Track and Field - 2007-12
Fisher made the All-MAC team six times in her career as a distance runner, three times in cross country and three times in track and field. She is one of only five runners in MAC history to win back-to-back cross country titles, achieving that feat in 2009 and 2010. She also qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championship Meet three times in her career and earned All-American honors in 2010. In 2010, she was named the league’s Outstanding Distance Runner after winning the 5K by more than 26 seconds at the 2010 Indoor Championships. She followed up that strong year by setting the MAC record in the 5K at the Iowa State meet with a time of 16:04.56, which was one of the top-10 fastest times in the world that year.
Emma Kertesz
Cross Country/Track - 2008-12
Kertesz, a two-time All-MAC selection in track and cross country, won four MAC titles as well as earning All-America honors in the 10,000 meters. As a senior in 2012, she was named Most Valuable Performer at both the MAC Indoor and Outdoor Championship meets. She broke the school and MAC record for the mile at the indoor meet, leading UT to a second-place showing, its highest ever showing at the indoor championship. Kertesz also won championships in the steeplechase and the 5000 in the 2012 outdoor championship and the 5000 in the 2012 indoor championship. She is the MAC record holder in the 10,000 meters, and ranks top-10 in school history in the 1500, steeplechase and 5000.
Shantel Ransom
Track - 1989-91
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 1990’s MAC Female Athlete of the Year after being voted MAC Track Championship’s Top Performer. She set MAC records in the 100 and 200 meters in 1990. Ransom represented UT at the National Sports Festival in 1989 and 1990, and at the World University Games in Sheffield, England as well as the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba in 1991.
Briana Shook
Cross Country/Track - 2000-04
Shook, one of the most decorated student-athletes in UT and MAC history, was a three-time All-American in both cross country and track and field. Over the course of her career, she won 11 MAC titles and added three runner-up finishes, as well. She was a three-time MAC champion in the indoor 3,000, twice in the indoor 5,000. In 2004, she was named MAC Outdoor Championship Meet Most Valuable Performer and was named NCAA Mideast Track and Field Athlete of the Year. During the summer of 2004, Shook made history by regaining her American record in the 3000-meter steeplechase with ehr 9:29.32 clocking in Belgium, a time that was fourth best in the world that year and still ranks in the top-20.
Sara Vergote
Cross Country/Track - 1998-2002
Vergote was a three-time All-MAC selection, two-time NCAA qualifier and a three-time NCAA Region Team honoree in cross country and track. She won one MAC Championship (10,000 meters) and was a runner-up in two others. In the 2002 MAC Cross Country Championship, she finished second behind teammate Briana Shook and qualified for the NCAA Championship. Vergote pulled off an impressive triple at the 2002 MAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships by winning the 10,000 meters, finishing second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and finishing third in the 5,000 meters. She ranks fifth all-time in the MAC in the steeplechase.
April Williams
Track and Field - 2003-07
Williams was a two-time All-American who won four MAC track & field long jump and triple jump titles in her career. She was voted the MAC Indoor Field Event Performer of the Year at the 2006 MAC Indoor Championship after she won both the long jump and triple jump, setting the indoor meet record in long jump. As a senior, she repeated the double championships at the 2007 MAC Outdoor Championship Meet, capturing the triple jump and the long jump. Williams is still the school record holder in both indoor/outdoor long jump and triple jump.
Golf
Jessica Popiel Stone
Golf - 1996-99
Popiel Stone was the MAC Player of the Year and a first-team All-MAC selection as a senior in 1999. She also made the MAC All-Tournament Team in 1998, a year in which the Rockets won the MAC Invitational Tournament. She was a tournament medalist twice in her career. A four-year letterwinner, Popiel Stone was the first Rocket to compete in an LPGA Tour event, playing in the Jamie Farr Classic in 1999.
Softball
Patty Barrett-Recker
Softball, Volleyball - 1986-90
Barrett-Recker earned four varsity letters in both volleyball (1986-89) and softball (1987-90). She set the school record for digs in a single season in 1988 with 484. On the diamond, Barrett-Recker pitched a no-hitter her freshman year. She was named All-MAC in 1989 when she recorded 14 wins, 49 strikeouts and a 1.19 ERA that helped the Rockets win a conference championship and place seventh at the College World Series.
Christin Chadwick Lucas
Softball - 1989-92
Chadwick was a two-time All-MAC pitcher and also earned All-Mideast Region honors in 1992. In 1992, she pitched a school-record 256 innings. Chadwick was a member of the 1989 and 1992 MAC Championship teams and the seventh-place College World Series team in 1989. On UT’s career list, she ranks first in wins, second in winning percentage, second in game appearances, third in ERA, third in innings pitched, fourth in strikeouts and fifth in starts. On the season list, Chadwick ranks second and third in wins; second and third in winning percentage; second in games pitched; and first in innings pitched.
Amy Galvan
Softball - 1992-95
Galvan was a four-year starter at first base and earned first-team All MAC honors in 1993 and 1994. She was also an All-Mideast Region Team nominee in 1994 and 1994. Galvan won the MAC batting crown as a sophomore in 1993 with a .418 average, the fourth-highest mark in UT history. A member of the 1992 College World Series and MAC Championship team, Galvan ranks second in UT in career batting average, hits, RBIs, slugging percentage and doubles.
Tami Johnston
Softball - 1984-87
Johnston is a softball letterwinner from 1984-87. She was the igniting force on the mound for UT’s turnaround from a last-place team to a first-place team in a two year period. Johnston was an All-MAC player three years in a row and the first Mideast All-Region selection for UT. Johnston ranks first in ERA, strikeouts, innings and winning percentage; second in career wins and appearances; and fourth in starts in Rocket history. She is also the MAC single-season strikeout leader, with 239 in 1986.
Rhonda King-Randolph
Softball - 1987-90
King-Randolph was the first female athlete in Toledo history to earn All-America first-team honors and was a three-time All-MAC performer. She rewrote the Rocket record books in her time on the diamond, and is still the all-time school leader in slugging percentage, doubles, home runs, runs batted in, total bases and walks.
Kelly Meinhart
Softball - 1985-88
Meinhart was first-team All-MAC twice in her career - as a catcher in 1987 and a designated hitter in 1988. In her time at UT, the Rockets won the regular-season MAC title in 1985 and finished second in the conference in 1986 and 1987. Meinhart is the record holder for triples in a season and triples in a career.
Lena Richards-Crider
Softball - 1994-96
Richard-Crider was a two-time first-team All-MAC selection in 1995 and 19996. After a 1995 season where she led the Rockets in slugging percentage, runs, hits, at-bats, doubles, sacrifices, total bases, stolen bases, and home runs, she was named to the first-team All-Mideast Region list.
Leigh Ross
Softball - 1988-91
Ross, one of the best hitters in the nation during her time at UT, has the first and second best season batting averages in school history. She was named first-team All-MAC and second-team All-American in her senior season in 1991 after finishing fifth in the nation in batting average and first in stolen bases. Ross is the UT career record holder for batting average, hits, total bases and stolen bases. She is also in the top 20 in NCAA softball history with 296 career hits.
Cheryl Sprangel
Softball - 1984-97
Sprangel was the coach for the Rockets softball team for 14 years, racking up 461 career victories and 12 winning seasons. When she took over, the team was in just its fourth year of existence and coming off a 3-24 season. With Sprangel at the helm, her teams won MAC titles in 1985, 1989 and 1992 and had six second-place finishes. Her teams qualified for the NCAA tournament in 1989 and 1992. In 1989, the Rockets won the NCAA Mideast Regional Championship and advanced to the College World Series, where they placed seventh. Sprangel also won three MAC Coach of the Year awards in 1985, 1989 and 1992.
Brenda Steinbrunner
Softball - 1986-89
Steinbrunner was a two-time All-MAC selection, three-time Academic All-MAC selection and a two-time Academic All-American. An outfielder, Steinbrunner is the school record holder for doubles in a single season.
Leslie Strong
Softball - 2005-08
Strong was a three-time All-MAC honoree as a first baseman. She is the Rockets’ all-time leader in home runs, walks and on-base percentage, and is second in slugging percentage. In the MAC record books, Strong is first in career walks and seventh in career homers.
Soccer
Molly Cornwell
Soccer - 2006-09
Cornwell in 2007 and 2008 won MAC Player of the Year, and in 2006, was second team All-MAC and a member of the MAC All-Freshman Team.She scored 33 goals across her four year career, which is tied for second in UT history. Cornwell is the record holder for goals in a season and assists with 30, which is 13 more than the No. 2 assist leader. She also holds the record for points in a season and career.
Shauna Cottrell
Soccer - 1996-2000
Cottrell was a two-time All-MAC honoree as a midfielder, making second-team All-MAC as a junior in 1997 and first-team All-MAC as a senior in 1998. As a senior, she also made third-team Great Lakes Region and All-Ohio first-team. Her team honors include Team MVP and Offensive MVP in 1998, Defensive MVP in 1997 and Most Improved Player in 1997. She tied for the team lead with seven goals in 1998, while leading the team in shots on goal.
Vicki Traven
Soccer - 2008-11
Traven was a two-time All-MAC goalkeeper who led the Rockets to MAC Championships and NCAA appearances in 2008 and 2011, as well as a MAC regular-season title in 2010. In her four seasons at Toledo, Traven had a MAC-record 34 shutouts. She earned MAC Freshman of the Year in 2008, second-team All-MAC honors in 2010, and first-team All-MAC honors in 2012. Traven also holds almost all of Toledo’s goalkeeping records, including most victories, shutouts, and best goals-against average, along with season makers for victories, shutouts, and GAA.
Swimming & Diving
Jacy Dyer
Swimming - 2007-11
Dyer was a four-time All-MAC swimmer and 10-time MAC champion in her career. She also had six other top-three finishes at MAC Championship meets. At the conclusion of her career, Dyer held more than 20 UT, MAC and pool records. She was named MAC Swimmer of the Year twice in 2009-10 and 2010-11 and earned UT Female Athlete of the Year in 2009-10.
Erin Jamieson
Swimming - 1992-96
Jamieson was a two-time recipient of the Ruth Hawkins Heldt Most Valuable Swimmer Award (1993 and 1996). At one time she held school records in the 50-backstroke, 100-backstroke, 200-backstroke, 200-individual medley and 100-butterfly. She also set school records as a member of the 200- and 400-medley relay teams on numerous occasions. At the MAC Championships, Jamieson placed in the top three in the 100-butterfly, 100-backstroke and 200-backstroke in four consecutive seasons.
Laura Lindsay
Swimming - 2008-12
Lindsay was a two-time All-American and three-time All-MAC swimmer who helped lead Toledo to MAC Championships in 2010 and 2012. She earned All-America honors in the breaststroke in 2011 and 2012, the only Rocket woman swimmer to make All-America twice in her career. In 2012, Lindsay swam the fifth-fastest time at the NCAA Championships in the 100-yard breaststroke, swimming in the “B” final and winning the event. She also swam the 200-yard breaststroke at the NCAA Championships twice, making her a four-time NCAA qualifier. Her senior season, she was a USA Olympic top-10 qualifier in the 100- and 200-breaststroke, and a top-25 qualifier in 2016.
Megan McKinley-Deal
Diving - 2004-08
McKinley-Deal was one of the best divers in UT history, earning All-MAC honors in her junior and senior seasons. She is one of only four women in the history of the UT swimming & diving program to earn All-America honors. In her senior year, McKinley was an NCAA qualifier, MAC Diver of the Year, and first-team All-MAC selection. With her points alone, UT was ranked 33rd overall in scoring at the NCAAs. McKinley still holds both the one- and three-meter school records.
Reyna Smith
Diving - 1993-97
Smith is the most dominating female diver in MAC history, winning MAC Diver of the Year four times and named NCAA All-American in the three-meter in 1995. Smith was a seven-time MAC Champion, having won the three-meter board in 1994, ‘95, ‘96 and ‘97. She is the MAC and UT record holder on the three-meter board (493.60) and the UT record holder in the one-meter (417.90).
Tennis
Myriam Cueva-Neville
Tennis - 2003-07
Cueva was a three-time All-MAC tennis player who also earned team MVP honors four times. When she was named first-team All-MAC as a sophomore in 2005, she became the first UT women’s tennis player to make first-team all-league in 12 years. As a sophomore, Cueva had a winning streak of seven matches, including MAC wins over Buffalo, Akron and Miami.
Lisa Donnelly Denstorff
Tennis - 1986-90
Lisa Donnelly was a four-time All-MAC selection and 1990 MAC Champion at No. 1 singles, the only UT woman to win a MAC singles title. She was named team MVP four consecutive seasons, playing at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles in all four of those years. The team captain in her junior and senior years, Donnelly earned Academic All-MAC honors in 1990.
Fabiana Zilberstein Rezak
Tennis - 1990-93
Zilberstein Rezak competed at the No. 1 singles spot for three years for the Rockets and was a three-time first-team All-MAC selection, earning the honor in 1990-91, 1991-92 and 1992-93. As a junior, she finished fourth at the MAC Championships following a 20-10 record at the top singles position. In her final year with the Rockets, she posted a 13-6 overall record.
Volleyball
Kate Bean McCauley
Volleyball - 2003-06
Bean dominates the Toledo record book, ranking first in career attacks, second in career kills and career service aces, third in career kills per set and fifth in career digs. Her 39 digs vs. Ball State as a senior are the most ever by a Rocket in a match. Off the court, Bean is the only UT volleyball player to be named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team, earning those honors in both 2005 and 2006, and is one of only two Rockets in any sport to be a member of the first team on more than one occasion.
DeSeana Williams
Volleyball - 1990-93
Williams is the only Rocket volleyball player to be selected first-team All-MAC. A three-time All-MAC selection, Williams was voted MAC Freshman of the Year in 1990 and is the only Rocket to ever receive this honor. She ranks second in school history in three categories: kills per game in a season, career kills per game and career digs per game.
