Track and Field star, Adriane Diamond Travis, a 1983 graduate of Marshall County High School was selected to the Class of 2020 Dawahares/KHSAA Hall of Fame but due to the pandemic, the induction ceremony was postponed and will take place on Saturday, July 24 at the Embassy Suites in Lexington.
Diamond won seven individual KHSAA track and field Class 3A state titles in the 400 and 200 meters and went on to become a three-time All-American competing for Indiana University. She was inducted into the KTCCCA Hall of Fame and Marshall County Hall of Fame.
From the original announcement October 31, 2019:
ADRIANE DIAMOND TRAVIS (Athlete / Marshall County) – A seven-time individual 3A track and field state champion at Marshall County HS, Adriane Diamond Travis captured four-straight state titles in the 400 meters to go along with three state championships in the 200 meters. Diamond Travis claimed the state title in both the 200 and 400 meters at the 1980 and 1981 3A State Meet. She picked up her third-straight state title in the 400 meters as a junior in 1982 but was bested in the 200 meters. She closed out her prep career by taking both titles at the 1983 3A State Meet and won the 400 meters in a state-record time of 55.50 seconds – a mark that stood until 2013. She went on to compete at Indiana University where she was a three-time All-American and totaled 17 Big Ten individual and relay championships in both indoor and outdoor track. During the 1985-86 season, Diamond Travis was a part of Indiana’s indoor national championship relay team in the 4×440. In January of 1987, she posted a time of 1:10.18 in the 500 meters, which was the fastest time in the world at that point by a female. Following her senior season, Diamond Travis participated in the 1988 Olympic Trials. She was inducted into the KTCCA Hall of Fame in 2012 and is also a member of the Marshall County HS Hall of Fame.
The 12-member Class of 2020 will be the 33rd inducted into the Dawahares/KHSAA Hall of Fame, and consists of former high school coaches, athletes, officials, administrators, and contributors; and will bring the total number of honorees in the Hall of Fame to 491. The 2020 inductees are:
- CHARLIE ADKINS (Coach / Paintsville)
- GREG BUCKNER (Athlete / University Heights)
- DONNIS BUTCHER (Athlete / Meade Memorial)
- JOEY COUCH (Athlete / Paintsville)
- GARY DEARBORN (Contributor / Harrison County & Pendleton County)
- SAM HARP (Coach / Danville)
- ROBERT JOE “BOBBY” LYNCH (Athlete / Ashland Blazer)
- SHARAE MANSFIELD (Athlete / DuPont Manual)
- BART RISON (Coach & Official / Montgomery County)
- CHRISSY ROBERTS (Athlete / Eminence)
- BOB STACEY (Coach & Official / Boyd County)
- ADRIANE DIAMOND TRAVIS (Athlete / Marshall County)