Tamara Stoner's exploits as a track star in high school and college has won her an induction into the Delaware Track and Field Hall of Fame. — *In this photo:* Tamara Stoner’s exploits as a track star in high school and college has won her an induction into the Delaware Track and Field Hall of Fame.

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Tamara Stoner Named as Track & Field HOF inductee

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Since her January 2018 arrival at Delaware State University in January, it hasn’t taken long for University officials in the President’s Office to come to understand that Tamara Stoner is a consummate administrative professional. In addition to her job as the Board of Trustees secretary and a University paralegal, she has added to her multi-tasking juggling act by serving as an assistant to University President Wilma Mishoe.

But it wasn’t until this week that people on campus learned that she was a former track star on both the high school and intercollegiate levels.

Ms. Stoner has been named as a 2018 inductee of the Delaware Track & Field Hall of Fame in recognition of her exploits in track and field at Delcastle High School and West Virginia University.

At Delcastle, she set the state indoor record of 56.19 in 1990 – a record that still stands in Delaware and was the nation’s fastest time at that point. In 1991 she repeated as the indoor 400m champion and added another title in the 300m. Outdoors she was a Division I champion in the 200m and 400m in 1991, with the state’s best time in each. She finished fourth in the 400m in the New Balance Indoor Nationals in 1990. She was the 1991 State MVP.

At West Virginia University, she was Atlantic 10 indoor champion in the 500m in 1995 (1:14.35), a performance that is still the third fastest time in WVU history; and anchored the Mountaineers’ Atlantic 10 indoor championship team in the 4x400 (3:41.74) at the same meet, a performance that is still the second-fastest indoor time in West Virginia history. She ran the third leg on 4x200 (1:36.94) that was second-best in school history, still fifth in school annals.

Ms. Stoner and four others – Jim Fischer, Lynn Harris Hernandez, Kevin S. Kelly and John W. Yasik – will be inducted in the Delaware Track and Field Hall of Fame during Banquet and Ceremony on Nov. 20 at the Cavaliers Country Club, 100 Addison Drive, Newark, Del. 19702. Tickets, which are $50 per person, can be obtained by email via Bstrusowski [at] verizon.net (Bstrusowski)@verizon.net.