Hall of Fame
A founding member of both the field hockey varsity team and the softball club, Bell was at the forefront of the explosion of athletics at Radford in the early 1980s. She was a letter winner and team leader on the first field hockey squads, including the first varsity team in 1981. The Virginia Beach native was a final cut from the U.S. Olympic team in 1980, and went on to a successful coaching career after her 1982 graduation, beginning with a four-year stint at Radford. Only 21 years old when she took over in 1982, by her second season she had turned Radford into a Division II powerhouse. The team went 14-2-3 and was ranked 10th in the nation in the final 1983 poll. Her final RU team was 10-7 in 1985, making the difficult transition to NCAA Division I play.
