Member Profile: Susan Delaney-Scheetz

Penn State's Senior Woman Administrator, Susan Delaney-Scheetz, has been elected to the Delaware Sports Museum Hall of Fame as part of its 2005 class. Delaney-Scheetz, a native of Delaware and a graduate of Brandywine High School in Wilmington, is the only woman in the class, will be honored at a banquet May 18 for her accomplishments as a prep and college student-athlete, coach, and for her current role in athletics administration at Penn State.

This is not the first notable award for the coach-turned-administrator. Delaney-Scheetz was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2000, and is also a member of the U.S. Lacrosse Pennsylvania Chapter Hall of Fame.

An all-around athlete at Brandywine, Delaney-Scheetz played field hockey, basketball, softball and lacrosse as a prep athlete. She attended West Chester State University, lettering in lacrosse basketball and field hockey. She was a member of the school's National Invitation Champion basketball team her senior year.

Delaney-Scheetz joined Penn State as an assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach in 1982. She became the head lacrosse coach in 1986, spending four years in that position. She was promoted to assistant athletic director in 1989 and became associate athletic director and senior woman administrator in 2003.

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