Sheila Dotson, a four-time, two-sport letterwinner while at Texas A&M-Kingsville, will be inducted into the Javelina Hall of Fame Nov. 15 in the Memorial Student Union Building ballrooms.
Dotson, who is from Kingsville and who was an athlete at King High School, is being inducted individually after having been inducted along with the 1999-2000 women’s basketball team two years ago.
She earned four letters in basketball and four in softball. She was on the Javelina softball team when it became an intercollegiate sport in 1997.
The Javelinas had a 110-83 record in their first four seasons, and with Dotson in the lineup.
Dotson was All-Lone Star Conference first team on the field and academically. She was all-academic for three seasons.
In basketball, she was on the 1999-2000 squad that won the school’s first-ever Lone Star Conference title with a 15-1 record and advanced into the NCAA Division II national playoffs.
The team finished with a 23-7 record.
Dotson received a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology in 2000 and received a master’s degree in sports administration from Texas Woman’s in 2003.
She served as the Javelina assistant women’s basketball assistant in 2001 and was a graduate assistant women’s basketball coach at TWU in 2001-02 and 2002-03.
She joined the Fort Worth Fire Department as a firefighter in 2004 and continues to hold that position.
While at TAMUK, Dotson was on the Dean’s List and Honor Roll.
