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The 2003-2004 Women’s Bowling team was inducted as just the third team ever to go into the hall, following the 1974 Men’s Basketball NIT Team, the first HBCU to play in an NIT and the 1963 Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Team that won two National Championships.

The team bears the distinction of bowling in the first ever NCAA Women’s Bowling Championship in 2004 in Houston, Texas.  At that event, the Hawks became the first ever team to bowl a perfect Baker game (where each bowler bowls two frames per game).  They would finish seventh in the nation that season and earn an additional birth to the United States Bowling Congress Collegiate Championships the same season.

The team, made up of future All-American MaryEtta Lewis, Sandra Maresca, Erin Fagan, Megan Raymond, Victoria Gay and Kristie Minnis, along with coaches, Sharon Brummell, Doug Dukes and Vince Brummell, laid the groundwork for the dominance of Hawk Bowling. A program that would go on to win five National Championships.