Hall of Fame
Deanne Madden-Scanlon played four seasons and was a two-year starter for coach Geri Polvino’s Eastern women’s volleyball team from 1979-82. Chosen the EKU Female Athlete of the Year in 1982-83 in the women’s athletics department and picked on the 1982 All-OVC Tournament Team, she was a member of Eastern’s Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship teams in 1981 and 1982 when the Colonels finished those years with overall records of 36-11 and 34-15, respectively. She is listed in the EKU record book with the sixth (.306, 1981) and seventh (.306, 1982) all-time best hitting percentages in a single season. She also has the top two seasons for single season block solos with 77 in 1982 and 73 in 1981 and she is listed with the third best single season total for block assists with 186 in 1981. She is also among the career leaders for Eastern in hitting percentage (.306, second all-time), block solos (150, fifth) and block assists (307, eighth). Following graduation from Eastern in 1983, Madden-Scanlon, a native of Zanesville, Ohio played on the U.S. Women’s National Team and later spent a full decade as a player in the United States Volleyball Association, twice earning All-American honors. She also played on a Women’s Senior Division team that was national runner-up in 1993. She has spent the last 16 years as head coach of Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., where she has compiled an impressive overall mark of 403-115. She has led the Lakers to 10 straight appearances in the NCAA Division II post-season tournament, highlighted by the 2005 team that went 32-6 and won the national championship. Madden-Scanlon was chosen AVCA National Coach of the Year following that season. She is married to Jim Scanlon who played baseball at Eastern and they have two children and reside in Jenison, Mich.
