One of Radford University’s top two-sport athletes of all time, Anne Fontaine, was one of four members to be honored and inducted into the Big South Conference Hall of Fame last week, during a ceremony as part of the league’s annual Spring Meetings Awards and Hall of Fame Dinner at The Marriott Resort in Hilton Head, S.C.
Fontaine is one of Radford’s most-decorated volleyball performers ever, as she earned All-Conference honors three times in volleyball (1991, 1992 and 1993) and Big South All-Tournament Team plaudits in 1990, 1991 and 1993. She was a three-time team MVP in addition to a two-time VaSID All-State selection in 1992 and 1993.
From 1990-93, Fontaine appeared in 511 career sets — fourth-most in Big South history, and posted 1,591 kills, 164 service aces, 1,437 digs and 153 total blocks during her career with the Highlanders. She led the conference in digs with 529 in 1993 and departed the Big South as the league’s all-time kill leader (now 15th), fourth in service aces (now 16th) and second in digs. Fontaine was the first player in league history with 1,500 career kills and 1,000 career digs and remains just one of six players with 1,500 kills/1,400 digs in the conference record book.
She was also a three-time letter-winner in women’s basketball playing from 1992-95 and was a member of three conference title teams for the Highlanders. Fontaine owns the distinction of playing in two different NCAA Championship tournaments the same year in 1993-94 — she led the Highlanders to the Big South’s first-ever berth in the NCAA Volleyball Tournament that fall and played a key role on Radford’s 1993-94 Women’s Basketball NCAA Tournament squad.
Fontaine, who earned the prestigious Radford University Outstanding Student Award in 1995, remains Radford’s career leader in digs and service aces and is second in career kills. She was inducted into Radford’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002.
The 2017 class is the 14th Big South Hall of Fame class. The class consists of Collin Drafts (Charleston Southern football), Anne Fontaine (Radford volleyball and women’s basketball), Tom Hickman (Winthrop Director of Athletics) and Brooke Weisbrod (Coastal Carolina women’s basketball, softball and tennis).
— Courtesy of RU Athletics
