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JOINS HALL OF FAME — Covington High School graduate Frances Carvajal, pictured playing professionally in Europe, has been named to the West Virginia Wesleyan College Athletic Hall of Fame.
JOINS HALL OF FAME — Covington High School graduate Frances Carvajal, pictured playing professionally in Europe, has been named to the West Virginia Wesleyan College Athletic Hall of Fame.
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BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — Frances Carvajal is a Hall of Famer.
The two-sport standout at West Virginia Wesleyan University has been named to the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame and will be inducted on Saturday at Benedum Campus Center Social Hall during Homecoming weekend.
Carvajal will join the late Charles “Chuck” Elkins (Class of 1952), Jim Harsha (Class of 1969), Mark Mendelson (Class of 1971) and the 1997 women’s tennis team in making up the hall’s Class of 2014.
Frances, a 2001 Covington High School graduate, was a three-time All-West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference basketball selection and led the conference in rebounding in 2005.
Also while at Wesleyan, she was both a three-time conference champion in the discus and the shot put. A two-time national qualifier in the shot put, she placed ninth and tenth respectively in the NCAA Division II Championships.
In a March 4, 2005 story in the Virginian Review, then-Bobcat basketball coach Steve Tierney summed up Carvajal’s basketball career.
“Outstanding kid, outstanding player, fine person, excellent student,” he said. “She’s done a lot for Wesleyan women’s basketball, that’s for sure.”
Carvajal ended her four-year college career with 1,538 points and 962 rebounds and set a single-season WVIAC record in her senior season with 21 double-doubles.
After graduating from Wesleyan in 2005, Carvajal played professionally in Europe and Australia.
At Covington High School, Frances was a standout in three sports — volleyball, basketball and track.
She was an All-Pioneer District performer in all three.
On the basketball floor, Carvajal scored 1,362 points and grabbed over 1,000 rebounds
On the track, she captured three state titles — two in the shot put (1999 and 2001) and one in the discus (2000).
Carvajal currently lives in Dallas, working in business and sales for a pharmaceutical company. She also does private session for area youth on basketball skills along with coaching basketball for an organization called Higher Goals.
