FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gary Holden, Sports Info. Director
(540) 365-4306
 
November 19, 2003
 
 
Volleyball Players Complete Careers
 
Ferrum, Va. -- Four Ferrum College women's volleyball players recently completed their careers with the 2003 season.  Three players, Michelle Martin (Martinsville, Va./Bassett), Shermika Harris (Martinsville, Va./Laurel Park), and Lindsay Cooke (Newsoms, Va./Southampton Academy) completed four-year careers with the Panther volleyball program.  Terri Craig (Roanoke, Va./Northside) completed her third year at Ferrum after transferring from Lynchburg College, where she played for the Hornets as a freshman.

Martin closed out her career as one of the College's all-time blockers.  Martin had 386 career blocks, 21 shy of former standout Tamiko Martin, who had 407 blocks from 1991-94.  Martin set the school record for season blocks with 109 in the 2000 season.  Martin also played basketball two years for Ferrum, in 2000-01 and 2001-02.

Harris was named to the Dixie All-Conference first team in 2002 and the USA South All-Conference second team in 2003.  She set school records for match kills (37 vs. Peace on 11/1/03) and match attacks (68 vs. Peace on 11/1/03).  Harris also plays basketball for the Panthers, having completed three years thus far.  She was the Dixie Conference Rookie of the year in 2001, earning All-Conference second team honors that year.

Cooke played mainly the past two seasons as Ferrum's "libero", a defensive specialist role.  She also played basketball for the Panthers one season in 2001, and has been a member of the Ferrum softball team for the past three years.  She helped Ferrum win the 2002 Dixie Softball Tournament, and make their first-ever appearance in the NCAA Softball Playoffs.

Terri Craig spent the past three season as Ferrum's starting setter.  She recorded 2291 career assists (in just three years), falling just shy of the career assists record set by Susan Reagan, who had 2299 from 1994-97.  In Ferrum's match vs. Peace on Nov. 1st this season, Craig came close to setting a new match assist record when she recorded 50 assists.  The record of 59 was set by Reagan vs. Greensboro on Oct. 9, 1996.

Biographical forms for each player are linked below.  For more information, please contact the Ferrum College Sports Information Office at (540) 365-4306.

Michelle Martin    Shermika Harris    Lindsay Cooke    Terri Craig
 
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