Jennifer Zickafoose, three sports standout, was the fifth woman inducted into the Bluffton Athletics Hall of Fame.
Zickafoose, a graduate of Berne South Adams High School, earned two letters in basketball, three in tennis and four in volleyball at Bluffton. She captained the lady spikers the last two years,
She has been active in coaching a variety of sports since graduation, having directed Bluffton’s tennis program two years, serving as swim coach at Lima Senior High School four years, at Shawnee High School a year, at Shawnee Country Club three summers and for the Lima YMCA. She also has several years of coaching volleyball at the junior high and assistant varsity level. Two of her Bluffton tennis players qualified and played in the national tournament in 1984.
Zickafoose served as aquatics director for the Lima YMCA for two years following her graduation and has taught seventh and eighth grade learning disabled students at Lima South Middle School since 1984. She received the Franklin B. Walter Outstanding Educator Award in 1994 for her work with exceptional children. Zickafoose then went on to work for her master’s degree in reading at The Ohio State University.
