Bowling Green State University Athletics
Talita Scott: 2007 Hall of Fame Inductee
September 10, 2007 | General
Sept. 10, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - The Bowling Green State University Athletic Hall of Fame welcomes seven new members on the weekend of Sept. 21-22. The 2007 class will be inducted during a formal dinner on the BGSU campus.
The Class of 2007 includes Antonio Daniels '97 (men's basketball), Wade Diefenthaler '59 (baseball), Talita (Scott) Braddix '94 (women's basketball), Charles Simpson (gymnastics coach), Tom Stubbs '49 (swimming and diving), Paul Talkington '69 (men's cross country and track) and Bernard White (football).
The official induction ceremony will take place Friday, Sept. 21, in the grand ballroom of BGSU's Bowen-Thompson Student Union. 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 to the induction ceremony, the class will be introduced at halftime of the Sept. 22 BGSU-Temple football game at Doyt Perry Stadium. The game begins at noon and is designated as Hall of Fame Day.
Tickets for the Sept. 21 dinner are $35 ($30 for Varsity BG members), and advanced reservations are required. Tickets can be reserved by calling the Falcon Club office at (419) 372-7100. Football game tickets can be purchased through the ticket office by phone, at 1-877-BGSUTICKET, or on the web at BGSUFalcons.com.
The public is invited to attend the induction dinner.
The following is the third of a seven-part series that takes a brief look at this year's inductees ...
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Talita Scott, a native of Akron, Ohio, was a two-time All-MAC First-Team selection, and an Academic All-American, for the women's basketball Falcons. On the court, she helped the Falcons to an overall record of 89-29 during her four seasons, including a 51-9 mark over her last two years. BG won the MAC's regular-season and tournament titles in each of those two seasons. Scott scored a total of 1,432 points to finish her career ranked second in school history, and she still ranks sixth on that list.
Scott also set the BGSU career record for field-goal percentage, with a .563 success rate, and she remains second on that list today. She finished her career ranked sixth or higher in no fewer than six other categories. In April of 1994, Scott began only the 11th BGSU student-athlete (and the fourth women's baskeball player) to be awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Additionally, she was a GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-America First-Team selection as a senior after earning third-team honors as a junior.
Scott graduated from the University in 1994, and also earned her master's degree at BGSU in 1996, before accepting a position at Proctor & Gamble in their information technology department. After seven years there, she began working for Hewlett Packard in 2003, as part of an outsourcing agreement between the two companies. Now Talita Braddix, she resides in Cincinnati with Darren Braddix, her husband of eight years. Darren is a former BGSU track standout. The couple has two children, a five-year-old daughter, Darian, and a two-year-old son, Brendan.
The 2007 class of inductees, the 44th class in history, brings membership in the Athletic Hall of Fame to 206. The 1983-84 national championship hockey team is also in the Hall of Fame.
