Ask Marlesse Schlott Hames about her career statistics and she'll draw a blank.

Ask the 1992 Seneca Valley graduate about her fondest sports memories and she'll talk about winning. And she did a lot of it.

The only 1,000-point scorer in Seneca Valley girls basketball history, Hames, now a freshman biology teacher at the school, recently was inducted into the Penn State-Behrend Athletic Hall of Fame.

She was a girls basketball and softball standout in high school and college. She helped the Raiders' softball team reach the state championship game, the Behrend women's basketball team receive an NCAATournament bid and win the ECACSouthern Region championship.

She helped the Behrend softball team reach the ECACplayoffs twice.

"I played to win games,"Hames said. "I hated to lose."

Hames had more than 900 rebounds in her high school career and still holds Seneca Valley's scoring and rebounding records. A 1996 Behrend graduate, she still holds school records there for rebounds in a season (338) and average rebounds per game in a season (12.5).

"It's hard to believe people haven't come along to break those records by now,"Hames said. "I'm proud of what I accomplished in both sports.

"It's a great honor being inducted into any Hall of Fame anywhere. It means you're among the best of the best. That means a lot."

In high school softball, Hames pitched the Raiders to a WPIALchampionship and hit .602 one season, .589 in another.

"We lost the state finals by one run, but it was OK. We had so much fun," Hames said.

Hames had won eight consecutive postseason games in 1992 before throwing a one-hitter against Williamsport in the state finale — and losing a 1-0 decision.

Hames was recruited by numerous Division I schools — Purdue, Vanderbilt and Syracuse among them — in high school.

"My family didn't know anybody at the time who had gone through the Division I recruiting process,"Hames said. "I was getting on a plane to visit a school, a coach would come by plane to visit me, it was all very intimidating.

"I wanted to go into pre-law back then, and Washington &Jefferson College had a good program that way, so that's where I went."

Only she didn't feel comfortable there and transferred to PSU-Behrend after a year.

A stress fracture limited her playing career at Behrend "so everything I accomplished there, I did in two years,"Hames said.

Those basketball accomplishments included being named ECACTournament MVP, ranking second all-time at Behrend with 665 rebounds, third with 9.6 rebounds per game and second with 209 free throws made. Hames scored 800 points and Behrend's Outstanding Offensive Player of the Year Award is named after her.

"The college game was faster-paced, but I had a double-double (points and rebounds) pretty much every game,"Hames said. "The competition made me a better player."

Her softball accomplishments at Behrend include hitting .402 as a senior middle infielder and .371 in her career, with seven home runs and 67 RBI.

Because she wanted to coach, Hames went into a teaching career. She has coached softball, sixth-grade and junior varsity girls basketball in the Seneca Valley School District.

Now expecting with her second child, Hames is taking a break from coaching. She still plays in a coed softball league, on the same team as her husband, brother and father.

"It's a church league and we've either finished first or won the league playoffs each of the last five years," she said. "We're still competitive.