A four-year standout at both the offensive and defensive ends of the court, Suzanna (Brown '85) Hollabaugh was an integral part of Bluffton basketball in the early 1980s. She is ranked in six different career statistics and was a member of the 1981-82 squad, which posted a 15-5 record and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997.
A native of Antwerp, Ohio, Hollabaugh scored 683 points and grabbed 421 rebounds in her career at Bluffton. Her point total ranked fourth when she graduated (now 17th) and her rebound total ranked third (now 11th). Hollabaugh's .771 career free throw percentage was a new Bluffton record when she graduated and today ranks third, while her 140 steals now ranks 7th and her 173 assists is 11th.
As a sophomore, Hollabaugh was a first team All-Western Buckeye Collegiate Conference selection as she led the Beavers in scoring, free throw percentage, assists and steals, a feat that only four other players in the history of Bluffton women's basketball have accomplished. For the next two seasons she led Bluffton and the entire WBCC in free throw percentage and was among the league leaders in assists and steals.
Hollabaugh, who earned a degree in health, physical education and recreation, is one of only seven Bluffton women's basketball players to be ranked in the top-20 in career scoring, rebounding, assists and steals. During her four years she helped the Beavers to 45 wins.
Following her graduation from Bluffton in 1985, Hollabaugh taught physical education in the Dekalb Eastern school system in Butler, Ind., for four years before moving onto the Edon school system in Northwest Ohio. She has coached at the junior high and high school levels basketball, softball, volleyball and golf and guided the Edon girls' basketball squad to their first ever sectional championship in 1995. Hollabaugh attends St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Edon.
