SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The all-time leading scorer in Drury Lady Panthers history, Amanda Newton-Plotner, will be inducted into the Springfield Area Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday, Sept. 19 at the Oasis Hotel and Convention Center. Tickets are available through Friday by calling 417-268-3016.
 
Newton-Plotner was a three-time NCAA-II women's basketball All-American and a four-time all-conference selection when she played for the Lady Panthers from 2002-06. She was the Heartland Conference Player of the Year and the league's Female Student-Athlete of the Year in her junior season. In her senior year, as Drury moved to the Great Lakes Valley Conference, she won the Paragon Award as the league's top women's athlete honoring her athletic and academic success through a four-year career.
 
The former Drury center helped the Lady Panthers to a 122-12 record during her four years on the squad including a 36-2 campaign in 2004 that ended up with Drury as the national runner-up.
 
Newton-Plotner's jersey number 42 is the only Drury women's basketball jersey to be retired and, more than 10 years after her playing career has ended, she is still the program's all-time leader in points scored (1,815), made field goals (684) and career field goal percentage (.546). Her career rebound total of 793 ranks as the second most in team history.
 
Along with Newton-Plotner, the Springfield Area Sports of Hall of Fame will induct former Willard High School boys basketball coach and former College of the Ozarks women's basketball head coach George Wilson, former Missouri State multi-sport star Mary Phyl Dwight, long-time Springfield News-Leader sports reporter Lyndal Scranton, and former bowling professional Sean Swanson.    
 

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