Bowling Green State University Athletics
Stephanie (Coe) DeSalvio: BGSU Hall Of Fame Inductee
September 11, 2001 | General
Sept. 11, 2001
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University Athletic Hall of Fame will welcome eight new members on Friday, Sept. 21. The 2001 class will be inducted during a formal dinner in Olscamp Hall on the BGSU campus. There is still time to order tickets to the dinner, as well as for the next night's football game at which the inductees will be honored.
The official induction ceremony will take place Sept. 21 in Olscamp Hall. The social hour begins at 6:00 p.m. with dinner served at 7:00 p.m. and the program starting shortly thereafter.
In addition, the class will be introduced at halftime of the Sept. 22 BGSU-Temple football game at Doyt Perry Stadium. The game begins at 6:00 p.m. and is designated as Varsity BG & Hall of Fame Night.
Tickets for the Sept. 21 dinner can be purchased at the Memorial Hall Ticket Office for $28 and advance reservations are required. Tickets can also be reserved by calling the ticket office at 1-877-BGSUTICKET or 372-0000. The deadline for ordering tickets for the dinner is Tuesday, Sept. 18. Football game tickets can also be purchased through the ticket office.
The public is invited to attend the induction dinner.
The class of 2001 will include basketball player Stephanie (Coe) DeSalvio '86, softball player Vicki Miwa-Hansen '90, golf coach John Piper, football and track athlete Bob Ramlow '59, cross country and track athlete Kevin Ryan '80, swimmer Andrea (Szekely) Burton '89, gymnast Cheryl (Vasil) Christiansen '80 and swimmer Don Worsfold '58.
The following is the first in a series of eight articles profiling each of the inductees:
STEPHANIE (COE) DeSALVIO
DeSalvio was a four-year letterwinner for the Falcons. Originally cut from the team as a freshman walk-on, she finished her BGSU tenure ranked second in school history in career scoring, and ninth in Mid-American Conference annals, with 1,363 points. That total now ranks eighth in school history, and her average of 13.4 points per game ranks fourth in BGSU history.
DeSalvio, a native of Utica, Mich., averaged 3.6 points as a reserve her freshman year, but led the team in scoring as a sophomore with 14.7 points per game en route to earning All-MAC honorable mention. In the classroom, she earned selection to the Academic All-MAC First Team, the first of three consecutive years she would win that honor.
DeSalvio again earned honorable-mention all-league honors as a junior, averaging 13.4 points as the Falcons finished second in the league. As a senior in 1986-87, she upped her scoring average to 18.8 points, earning All-MAC First-Team honors in the process. DeSalvio helped third-year coach Fran Voll's squad to a 27-3 overall mark and a perfect 16-0 slate in the MAC. DeSalvio was the MVP of the MAC Tournament, scoring 31 and 24 points, respectively, in the Falcons' two wins. The last two of those points came on a foul-line jumper with just five seconds remaining, providing the winning points in a 63-62 triumph over Central Michigan and the team's first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament.
That year, in addition to her academic all-conference honors, DeSalvio became the first Falcon women's basketball student-athlete to earn Academic All-America First-Team honors.
DeSalvio currently lives in Virginia with her husband, John, and works as a vocational consultant.
