SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Two-time NCAA champion Mary Jayne Harrelson has been selected for induction to the Southern Conference Hall of Fame, the SoCon office announced on Thursday.

Harrelson is the first and only individual NCAA champion in Appalachian athletics history, having claimed crowns in the 1500-meter run at the 1999 and 2001 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The six-time all-American was also the national runner-up in the 800-meter run in 2001 and was named the NCAA's Woman of the Year for the state of North Carolina that same year.

On the conference level, Harrelson won 23 combined individual championships in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. For her efforts, she was twice named the SoCon's Female Athlete of the Year (1999 and 2001), as well as the league's 1997 Outdoor Track and Field Freshman of the Year and 1999 Outdoor Track and Field Most Outstanding Performer. She also helped ASU to the SoCon's 1999 outdoor and 2001 indoor championships.

Following her time at ASU, Harrelson enjoyed a successful professional career, highlighted by winning a silver medal in the 1500 meters at the 2003 Pan-American Games. She also finished second in the mile and 800 meters at the 2002 U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championships and fifth in the 1500 meters at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials.

Harrelson is the third Mountaineer selected for induction in the SoCon Hall of Fame. Last year, women's track and field's Melissa Morrison-Howard and women's basketball's Valorie Whiteside were enshrined as part of the Hall of Fame's inaugural class.

Harrelson, along with Davidson's Fred Hertzel (men's basketball), West Virginia's “Hot” Rod Hundley (men's basketball), Clemson's Banks McFadden (football and men's basketball), Duke and Alabama's Wallace Wade (football/administrator) and men's basketball official J. Dallas Shirley, will be inducted to the SoCon Hall of Fame on June 1 at the Crowne Plaza in Hilton Head, S.C.

MARY JAYNE HARRELSON (Women's Cross Country/Track and Field — 1996-2001)
NCAA Championships
Outdoor
1500m (2001, 1999)

Southern Conference Championships
Cross Country
 '00, '99, '98

Indoor Track and Field
800m — '01, '99, '98, '97
mile — '01. '99
mile relay '01, '99
distance medley relay '01, '99

Outdoor Track and Field
800m — '01, '99, '98, '97
1500m — '01, '99, '98, '97
3000m — '01, '99

ASU Records
Indoor
500m
800m*
mile
distance medley relay
4x400m relay team

Outdoor
800m*
1500m*
3000m runs
4x800m
4x1500m relay team
* denotes Southern Conference records