A four-year standout at both the offensive and defensive ends of the court, Suzanne (Brown ’85) Hollabaugh was an integral part of Bluffton women’s basketball in the early 1980s. She is ranked in six career statistics and was a member of the 1981-82 squad that posted a 15-5 record and was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997.

A native of Antwerp, Ohio, Hollabaugh scored 687 points and grabbed 421 rebounds in her career at Bluffton. Her point total ranked fourth when she graduated and her rebound total ranked third. Hollabaugh’s .771 career free throw percentage was a Bluffton record when she graduated and today is tied for fifth, while her 140 steals now rank eighth.

As a sophomore, Hollabaugh was a first-team All-Western Buckeye Collegiate Conference selection as she led the Beavers in scoring, free throw percentage, assists and steals—a feat accomplished by few other players in Bluffton women’s basketball history. For the next two seasons, she led Bluffton and the entire WBCC in free throw percentage and was among the conference leaders in assists and steals.

Hollabaugh, who earned a degree in health, physical education and recreation, helped the Beavers to 45 wins during her four years.

Following her graduation in 1985, Hollabaugh taught physical education in the DeKalb Eastern school system in Butler, Ind., for four years before moving on to the Edon school system in northwest Ohio. She has coached basketball, softball, volleyball and golf, and guided the Edon girls’ basketball squad to its first-ever sectional championship in 1995.