ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Indiana State track & field alum and Hall of Fame member Christy Barrett Sherman is heading into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame as announced by the conference office on Wednesday afternoon.
 
Barrett Sherman was voted to be a part of the 27th MVC Hall of Fame class that will be recognized as a part of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Championship in St. Louis, Mo. over March 7-10. The Friday, March 8, festivities will begin with an 8 a.m. breakfast, followed by the induction ceremony at 8:30 a.m.
 
Tickets to the 2024 Hall of Fame event, which will be held at Stifel Theatre -- adjacent to Enterprise Center – can be obtained by contacting the league office at (314) 444-4300. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
 
The 2024 State Farm MVC Tournament marks the 34th-straight year the event has been staged in St. Louis. With 34-consecutive years at the same neutral site, Arch Madness is the second-longest neutral site tenured collegiate tourney in the nation (following only the Big East in New York City). It marks the 30th anniversary for the tournament at Enterprise Center.
 
"One of the great rewards that comes with representing a Conference with the magnitude of the Missouri Valley is the opportunity to interact with some of the finest practitioners in the collegiate athletic space," said Commissioner Jeff Jackson. "This class represents the reach of The Valley in and away from the athletic arena. We are all truly inspired by their achievements and touched by their grace."
 
The 27th MVC Hall of Fame class features baseball great Curtis Granderson of UIC; the all-time leading tackler in FCS history in Boomer Grigsby of Illinois State; track & field All-American Christy Barrett Sherman of Indiana State; men's basketball coaching legend Nolan Richardson of Tulsa; nationally renowned administrator Bob Bowlsby; and the 2024 Paul Morrison Award recipient: Tom Lamonica of Illinois State. Including this year's six inductees, the MVC Hall of Fame consists of 151 former student-athletes, administrators, coaches, and contributors.
 
A four-time NCAA Track & Field All-America selection, Christy Barrett Sherman excelled in the shot put as a student-athlete at Indiana State from 1988-91. She earned no fewer than three Gateway Conference outdoor crowns, winning the shot put competition in 1989, 1990 and 1991 and was a two-time NCAA Outdoor All-America in the shot put (1990 and 1991). Barrett Sherman also won the Gateway Conference Outdoor title in discus in 1990.
 
Equally skilled when competing indoors, Barrett Sherman was a three-time NCAA runner-up (1990 and 1991), earning All-America honors both seasons, as well as also being the Gateway Conference Indoor Champion in 1990 and 1991. She took sixth-place in the NCAA indoor shot put in 1990. Barrett Sherman set the Indiana State indoor record in the shot put with a distance of 55-5 1/2" in 1991, as well as the outdoor mark in that event with a distance of 56-10 3/4" in 1991, both records were broken in 2013 by Olympian Felisha Johnson.
 
A member of the Missouri Valley Conference All-Centennial Team, she was inducted into the Indiana State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000.
 
An elementary school teacher for the past 30 years in Vigo and Parke County, Christy remains active with the PS We Love You campaign, fighting childhood cancer. She is in her 20th year as throws coach at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. Rose-Hulman has won 27 of the last 29 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships.
 
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