KENOSHA, Wis. - Parkside Athletics is looking forward to celebrating the Parkside Athletics Hall of Fame presented by Legend Rings on Saturday, Oct. 29. The event, which will honor the history of women's sports at Parkside and the 50th Anniversary of Title IX, will be held in Alfred and Bernice De Simone Arena.

Leading up to the event, Parkside Athletics will be spotlighting each inductee.

Individual inductees in the Class of 2022 include: Shannon Becker Dopke '12 (WSOC), Naomi Fulton '08 (WXCTF), Amanda Gibson-Gwidt '10 (WBB), Jessica Lamp Monson '09 (WXCTF), Jadee Rooney Wesley '12 (WBB), and Kim Vanderbush Gauthier '90 (SB). Dr. Barbara Osborne '82 will be an inducted as an honorary member, and the 2008 women's soccer team will be inducted as a team.  

To register to celebrate the Class of 2022 and attend the Parkside Athletics Hall of Fame presented by Legend Rings, click here. 

Our next inductee spotlight is Dr. Barbara Osborne.

Honorary: Dr. Barbara Osborne '82, Women's Cross Country/Track & Field 
A recent winner of the UW-Parkside Distinguished Alumni Award, Dr. Barbara Osborne is a Professor with a joint appointment in Exercise and Sport Science and the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She directs the graduate program in Sport Administration, which was the first in the U.S. to focus solely on college sport.  She also started the undergraduate program in sport administration and a dual degree program in law and sport administration.  

Osborne works as a consultant for school systems, schools and athletics programs providing Title IX education, evaluations and audits, and as a court-appointed Title IX compliance monitor. Osborne's current academic research focuses on legal issues in intercollegiate athletics, gender equity and discrimination in sport, and medical issues in sport.  She is the co-author of three books (including the most widely used sports law textbook, now in its 5th edition). She has written 33 book chapters for various sport law and sport management texts, published 44 articles in academic journals, with another 38 invited publications.  

A life-long athlete, Barbara was inducted into the Kenosha Sports Hall of Fame in 1999 for her pioneering achievements in cross country and track at Mary D. Bradford High School and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of the 1980 National Championship cross country team. In addition to her degree in communications from Parkside, Dr. Osborne also has a sport management degree from Boston University and a law degree from Boston College.  

Osborne: "I am truly honored to be chosen as an honorary inductee with the amazing group of women UW-Parkside is honoring as they also celebrate 50 years of Title IX.  When I was recruited to Parkside, I was one of only two women on Parkside's first women's cross country team, and eight women on the track team.  We were able to grow and excel, winning the first NAIA women's cross country championship just two years later.  The end of my Parkside track career was marked by a seventh-place finish in the marathon at the NAIA track and field championships – I flew home that night and walked at graduation the next day.  The opportunities Parkside provided and the teammates who became lifelong friends were just the beginning of a life and career in sport, and for that I will always be grateful."

The Hall of Fame dinner and ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29. For more information, contact Jake Sutter at sutter@uwp.edu.