Hall of Fame
One of the most dominating performers in the history of the Big South Conference, Hartwell was undefeated in league competition as a junior and a senior, capturing the conference’s first women’s championship at the 1986 meet and leading Radford to the first recognized team title that season. She was the Big South’s first women’s cross country Runner of the Year. The previous season as a junior, she also won the league title and led RU to the championship though the sport hadn’t officially become recognized by the conference. Hartwell, a native of Radford, emerged as the team’s top runner as a sophomore, setting a work ethic that would later propel the entire squad to those championships. Competing in the Division II National Championships in 1983 as a freshman, Hartwell finished seventh in a field of over 110 runners.
