Editor’s note: This continues a series in which we will profile every inductee of the Rutgers 2017 Hall of Fame class.
The Rutgers women’s track team could sure use the next Shameka Marshall to walk through it’s doors soon. Attending Oakcrest High School, she won the 2001 New Jersey State Meet of Champions title in long jump and triple jump. Marshall self-admittedly hated track, but had three scholarship offers. With her mother’s guidance she decided to accept one of them, lucky for Scarlet Knights fans, it was RU.
Career at Rutgers
Only five foot two inches tall, world record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee is 5 foot ten, Marshall beat the odds to become a two-time All-American.