Full 2017 GSC Hall of Fame Release

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Former Delta State University basketball player Amy Carroll was recognized this week as being named one of the five 2017 inductees into the Gulf South Conference Hall of Fame. 

Amy Carroll-Denley was announced along with three other former student-athletes and one head coach as being inducted into the GSC's Hall of Fame class this year.

Carroll was a three-year starter for Delta State and helped lead the Lady Statesmen to three NCAA Division II National Championships (1989-90, 1992) and remains the only women's basketball student-athlete to have accomplished such a feat. Carroll played 131 games in a Lady Statesmen uniform and only lost 16 games in that span, which ranks her third all-time in that category. 

She scored 836 total points and pulled down 375 rebounds in those three championship seasons for the Lady Statesmen, and averaged a 72-percent mark from the free throw line in her time at Delta State.

"Amy was a great team leader without blowing you away with her statistics," said former coach Lloyd Clark. "She was as valuable to us as our leading scorer and rebounder. She could play at any spot on the court, and her willingness to play point guard for the last half of the 1991-92 season helped us win the NCAA Championship."

Carroll was selected as a First Team All-Academic All-American in 1991, was an NCAA All-South Region honoree (1991-92), and captured the 1992 Gulf South Conference Commissioner's Trophy. Carroll was named Delta State's Most Outstanding Female Athlete in 1992 and was inducted into the Delta State Hall of Fame in 2006. 

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in education in 1992 and currently works at Kirk Academy in Grenada, Miss. 

The Gulf South Conference will honor the five inductees with an official induction on Wednesday, May 31, in Pensacola, Fla., at the Hilton Pensacola Beach Hotel.

For a snapshot of Carroll's career accomplishments, click HERE.