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Penn College inducts three into Hall of Fame

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Three former student-athletes were inducted into the Penn College Athletics Hall of Fame in a ceremony Saturday evening. The 10th Hall of Fame class featured: Mark Shaffer, Jordan Rutledge, and Alicia Ross.

During Shaffer's four-year career, Penn College's baseball teams went 101-44, winning back-to-back Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) baseball championships in 2008 and 2009, and finished fourth in 2007 and 2010. As a freshman, Shaffer, of Hanover, was awarded PSUAC All-Academic honors, and went on to earn three-straight All-PSUAC first team honors in his final three seasons. Shaffer was also named to the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) first team during his junior year when he finished 9-2 with a 2.45 ERA.

 A defender, who started in 68 of her 69 career matches from 2013-16, Rutledge, of Mill Hall, played on women's soccer teams that went a combined 34-37-8 (20 of the wins were by shutout) and reached the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) semifinals during her senior season in 2016 when the squad posted a then-Penn College single-season record 11 wins. As a freshman in 2013, she earned PSUAC All-Academic honors. As a sophomore in 2014, she was named to the NEAC third team and NEAC All-Academic Team. As a junior, she was named to the NEAC third and All-Academic teams, and as a senior Rutledge was named to the NEAC first team, and again achieved NEAC All-Academic honors.

During a four-year career from 2013-2017 when she started in 81 of 87 games, Ross recorded several women's basketball program firsts, including becoming the college's first USCAA first-team honoree, the program's first NEAC third team honoree and its first repeat NEAC third team honoree. In addition, she graduated with and still holds, the program's career scoring record of 1,515 points. As a freshman, Ross, of Williamsport, was second in scoring with 199 points and earned PSUAC All-Academic honors. As a sophomore, she led the team with 438 points and was named to the USCAA second team. As a junior, Ross led the Wildcats with 468 points, and was named to the USCAA first team and NEAC third team. As a senior, she again led the team in scoring with 410 points and earned NEAC third-team honors. Ross, who averaged 17.4 points per game during her career, also finished with 437 rebounds and 301 assists.
 
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