Columbus North Dean of Students to enter Marshall Athletics Hall of Fame 2012

The Marshall University Athletic Hall of Fame committee has announced the 2012 class for the Marshall Athletics Hall of Fame.

“This class represents some of the finest student-athletes in school history,” said Marshall Director of Athletics Mike Hamrick. “The contributions of these fine men and women are truly appreciated by everyone in the Marshall Athletics family.”

Of the 9 selected, Jim Sheridan - Swimming, 1973-77; he serves as the head swim coach for Columbus North High School and Donner Swim Club, and Dean of Students for Columbus North High School.

More about; Jim Sheridan, Swimming, 1973-77. 

The elder Sheridan of the two brothers (also Mark) who swam at Marshall, Jim set MU records in the 200 yard Freestyle and 500 yard Freestyle in 1973-74, when he also helped the 400 yard Freestyle relay team and the 400 Medley relay teams to school records. 

In 1974-75, he was part of the 400 Medley relay and 800 Freestyle relay team that re-set the MU records, and he re-set the 200 Freestyle record (1:47.18), the 100 Freestyle record (:48.41) and 500 Freestyle record (4:55.95) in 1975. 

He was the scholar-athlete for swimming in 1977 and served as team captain of the 1976-77 Herd that finished second in its initial SC meet, and was one of Marshall’s top sprint swimmers. He led a group of five Marshall swimmers to the Eastern Intercollegiate Meet at WVU in 1977. He swam the 50-100-200 Freestyle events, and anchored the 400 Medley relay, the 400 Freestyle relay and the 800 Freestyle relay teams. 

The next season, he was a graduate assistant at Marshall the year his brother, Mark, was a freshman. Jim was also the head swimming and diving coach at Clemson University from 1991-94. He graduated with a BA at Marshall in May, 1977 and is currently the dean at Columbus North High School in Columbus, Indiana and swim coach for the girls team.

He is also the swim coach of the Gold Level, USS team in Columbus with the Donner Swim Club, a competitive training group designed for swimmers ages 13 and older to train them for High School and USA Swimming state and regional levels of competition at Gold Team 1 level, and a highly competitive training group designed to prepare swimmers for state, regional and National levels of competition at the Gold Team 2 level. 

In 1983, 2000, 2006 and 2011 — when his team finished fifth in the state, and ranked No. 12 in the high school final swimming poll — he was the Indiana Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year, and is a member of the Indiana High School Hall of Fame. He won the honor on the boys side four other times.

In his career in Indiana, he had one Girls State Championship team title in 1982-83 (at Columbus East, 1980-84), three Boys State Championship team titles in 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000 (at Columbus North) and had coached 38 individual State Champions and 90 All-Americans, when inducted into the HOF in that state.

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