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Came to Georgia State nearly at the start of the softball program, playing for the Panthers from 1986 to 1989 and establishing several major records during her career. She was a three-time all-conference selection and earned TAAC MVP honors in 1988 on a team that went 42-20. Her .353 single-season batting average was the fifth-best in program history while she used her speed on the base-paths to record 13 triples, fourth-most in a career in program history. She also set a school record with 21 steals in a season and then broke that mark a year later with 37.

She was equally impressive on the basketball court, standing 15^th on the all-time scoring list with 1,148 points, fourth in assists with 477 and second with 247 career steals. She played in 110 games, making 100 starts, leading the team in assists all four years of college. She stands eighth on Georgia State’s all-time list with 277 made free throws and 12^th in career field goal percentage (72.0).

A four-time all-conference cross country runner and the 2004 Atlantic Sun Conference Runner of the Year, Feenstra qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championship and finished 44^th in the nation of the 249 runners who qualified. She earned NCAA All-South recognition with a second place finish earlier that year. On the track side, she was also a four-time all-conference honoree who qualified for the NCAA National Championship in Indoor Track and finished 10^th in the nation. She holds the school record for fastest time on a cross-country course and has four school records in track. In 29 cross country meets, finished first 12 times and was in the top 10 in 23 of those races. Before graduating she became an Academic All-American and won Georgia State’s Ron Curry Determination Award for overcoming injury and missing a season.

Until just last year, was the winningest baseball coach in program history after coming to Georgia State in 1992 as an assistant coach when the University reinstated a program that had been dormant for five years. He served as interim head coach for the final 12 games of the 1993 season and then was elevated to head coach beginning in 1994. He went on to compile 293 wins in 13-plus seasons and still stands as the only player or coach in program history to have his number retired (30). He coached All-America players Mark Mortimer and Jason Glover, Freshman All-Americans Garrett Greer, Rusty Bennett and Brett Strickland and numerous all-conference and all-region standouts. His programs recorded multiple wins over top 25 opponents and he is still recognized throughout Atlanta and the southeast for his work with youth baseball players.

Recognized as Georgia State’s “most decorated” runner, Letherby was a three-time conference runner of the year, four-time all-conference honoree and qualified for the NCAA Championship. Upon his graduation, he held the Georgia State record in the 3,000 meters, 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters as well as the cross country course record at Panthersville. He also earned all-conference recognition in track & field. After twice being named Georgia State Male-Athlete of the Year, Letherby continued to run, earning eighth place honors at the 2003 Peachtree Road Race and 2004 Boston Marathon. He also won the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2002.

A four-time conference tournament champion during her four years at Georgia State (2002-06), Meincke rewrote the GSU record books while winning a school-record seven tournaments. She recorded nine top-5 finishes during the 2004-05 season, a school-record by nearly twice as many. Meincke also recorded five top-5 finishes during the 2003-04 season, tied for the second-most and four during the 2005-06 season. She recorded 10 top-10 finishes during the 2004-05 season and eight during the 2005-06 season, the top two marks in school history. She led Georgia State to an NCAA Regional appearance as a freshman and holds school-record for single-season stroke average (73.63) record to this day. 

One of the winningest coaches in GSU history, finished his 11-year career with a 143-57-4 (.711) record, winning conference championships in 1983 and 1986, while advancing to the championship game in 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984 and 1985. O’Neill coached 30 all-conference players including two player of the year award winners. He had the top seven seasons in victories in school history, led by 18 wins in 1984. He was also the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year in 1978, 1984 and 1986. O’Neill was inducted into the State of Georgia Soccer Hall of Fame posthumously in 2002.

A two-time first-team all-conference honoree who also earned all-conference third-team recognition, Rogers played on three NCAA postseason teams. She finished her career second in games played (121) after playing on four postseason teams. She was a two-time conference tournament MVP and fourth all-time in points scored with 1,728 and eighth in rebounds with 793. She set a school record for career field goal percentage. Rogers earned Academic All-District honors and was a three-time all-academic selection who played professionally overseas after Georgia State. She finished her career with a 14.3 scoring average, 10th in school history and made 645 field goals, fourth-most. Her 53.3 field goal percentage still ranks second today and her 400 made free throws is also second. Made 108 starts, tied for second-most in school history and recorded 21 double-double games, eighth-most in school history.