PROVIDENCE, R.I. – JWU (Providence) Director of Athletics Dana Garfield will be inducted into the University of South Carolina Lettermen's Association Hall of Fame as the Class of 2024. She will be officially inducted on Friday, November 1, and will be recognized at the South Carolina-Texas A&M football game on Saturday, Nov. 2.

Official Release

From the South Carolina Athletic Department:
Dana (Fulmer) Garfield was a four-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Region selection, three times on the first team and once on the second team. The catcher/outfielder earned NFCA second-team All-America honors in her senior season, was the team scholar-athlete recipient and team MVP. On the school career records list, she owns the school record for most games played and RBI, second in at-bats, hits and batting average, third in triples, and fifth in runs. She is one of 12 players in program history with 100 runs and 100 RBI. She was drafted in the 10th round of the Women's Professional Fastpitch League in 1996. She was an assistant coach at Georgia Southern and head coach at Providence College served as athletics director at Mitchell College and has been the Director of Athletics at Johnson & Wales University – Providence since 2019.

The seventh Director of Athletics in JWU (Providence) history, the Wildcats have won 20 conference championships and eight different programs have competed in the NCAA Tournament since Garfield's arrival. Additionally, JWU has won the last three Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Women's Commissioner's Cups (2022-24).

Garfield will be inducted alongside Pharoh Cooper (football), Melvin Ingram (football), Bob Kaczka (men's track ad field/cross country), Tiffany Mitchell (women's basketball), Tommy Moody (baseball/contributions to the Athletics Department), Jocelyn Penn (women's basketball), Jason Richardson (men's track and field) and Shalonda Solomon (women's track and field).