Hall of Fame
A three-sport star at Rutgers-Camden, Harris was a three-year standout in tennis and a four-year star in basketball and softball. The seventh-leading scorer in basketball program history, Harris scored 1,117 points and was a four-time basketball MVP. She also ranks second in career free throws (366), first in free throw percentage (71.1), seventh in field goals (375) and ninth in scoring average (16.2 ppg). She holds the program record for the best single-season field goal percentage (minimum three field goals made/game while playing in 75% of the team’s games) at 52.1 during the 1986-87 season.
Harris earned MVP honors in 1986 and 1988 in softball while compiling a .417 career average (78-for-187) in 68 games. That average is the sixth highest career total and the best for any four-year player in program history. The school’s all-time leader for career and single-season triples (16 career, nine in 1988), Harris also is the only player to notch the school-record of two triples in a game twice. During her senior season she ranked third nationally in RBIs (a school-record 43), second in triples (9 in 26 games) and fifth in batting average (.487) on her way to All-New Jersey Athletic Conference Second Team honors.
In tennis, Harris posted a 21-1 record in singles and a 29-10 mark in doubles from 1985-87 for a combined 50-11 career mark. During her senior season she posted an 11-1 mark in singles, tying the school mark for singles victories. She also went 9-5 in doubles to set a school record for overall wins with a 20-6 mark.
Harris won the William P. Carty Award as Most Courageous Athlete in 1986 and added Rutgers-Camden Female Athlete of the Year honors in both 1986 and 1988.
Harris, who became the first New Jersey girl to play Little League baseball at age 8, was a three-sport star (field hockey, basketball, softball) at Deptford High School.
Harris earned her BA in English in 1988, and also received a pair of Master’s degrees from Rutgers-Camden for Creative Writing (1991) and Social Work (1992).
