Date Posted: 12/3/2005

ORLANDO, Florida -- Kennesaw State legendary head coach, Scott Whitlock, was inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame on Friday evening at the Caribe Royale Resort during the annual convention of coaches.

Joining Whitlock in the Class of 2005 was Louisiana State head coach Yvette Girouard and former Notre Dame head coach Liz Miller.

Whitlock enters the Hall of Fame in the midst of one of the greatest coaching legacies in collegiate fastpitch history. He is the winningest head coach by percentage in the NCAA and owns two national championships, winning the 1995 and 1996 NCAA Division II crowns.

Since taking Kennesaw State into the fastpitch realm in 1991 after years of coaching KSU’s first slow-pitch team, Whitlock has compiled a 735-119 record for an .861 winning percentage. He has had five seasons in which he has won 50-or more games and won a career-best, 64 games, in 2004. In 15 years of coaching, his teams have never had a winning percentage of less than .761 and he has appeared in the national tournament in 14 out of 15 years.

During his decade-long career in the NCAA beginning in 1995, Whitlock has won 11 Coach of the Year awards including the prestigious NCAA Division II Coach of the Year Award which he won in 1995.

Whitlock has coached 48 All-Americans while at Kennesaw State. He has also developed two Catcher of the Year award winners and has coached a two-time Olympian in Canada’s Colleen Thorburn.

Whitlock, who turned 44 in November, is the youngest member ever inducted into the NFCA Hall of Fame which began in 1991. He is also the only Hall of Famer from a college or university from the state of Georgia.

NFCA Hall of Fame Members
2005 Yvette Girouard (LSU), Liz Miller (Notre Dame), Scott Whitlock (Kennesaw State)
2004 Jan Hutchinson (Bloomsburg), Elaine Sortino (Massachusetts)
2003 Margo Jonker (Central Michigan), JoAnne Graf (Florida State), Celeste Knierim (St. Louis Community College, Meramec)
2002 Joyce Compton (South Carolina)
2001 Cindy Bristow (International Softball Federation), Bill Galloway (Louisiana Tech)
2000 Sandy Jerstad (Augustana), Margie Wright (Fresno State), Fran Ebert (Western Michigan)
1999 Rayla Allison (Former executive Director of NFCA), Gayle Blevins (Iowa)
1998 Kathy Veroni (Western Illinois), Dianne Baker (Stephen F. Austin, Texas Woman’s)
1997 Mary Nutter (Pittsburg State), Marge Willadsen (Buena Vista)
1996 Mike Candrea (Arizona), Connie Claussen (Nebraska-Omaha)
1995 Mary Littlewood (Arizona State), Gerry Pinkston (Central Oklahoma)
1994 Sharon Drysdale (Kansas, Northwestern), Carol Spanks (UNLV)
1993 Judy Martino (North Carolina, NFCA Founder , ASA, WIPSA), Judi Garman (Cal State Fullerton)
1992 Lorene Ramsey (Illinois Central), June Walker (College of New Jersey, Trenton State), Judy Sherman (Pacific, Oregon), Betty Hoff (Luther College)
1991 Sharon Backus (UCLA), Linda Draft (Wisconsin-Parkside), Linda Wells (Minnesota, Arizona State)

Release courtesy of KSU Athletic Communications