Hall of Fame
A four-time NCAA Track & Field All-America selection, Christy Barrett Sherman excelled in the shot put as a student-athlete at Indiana State from 1988-91. She earned no fewer than three Gateway Conference outdoor crowns, winning the shot put competition in 1989, 1990 and 1991 and was a two-time NCAA Outdoor All-America in the shot put (1990 and 1991). Barrett Sherman also won the Gateway Conference Outdoor title in discus in 1990.
Equally skilled when competing indoors, Barrett Sherman was a three-time NCAA runner-up (1990 and 1991), earning All-America honors both seasons, as well as also being the Gateway Conference Indoor Champion in 1990 and 1991. She took sixth place in the NCAA indoor shot put in 1990. Barrett Sherman set the Indiana State indoor record in the shot put with a distance of 55-5 1/2” in 1991, as well as the outdoor mark in that event with a distance of 56-10 3/4” in 1991, both records were broken in 2013 by Olympian Felisha Johnson.
A member of the Missouri Valley Conference All-Centennial Team, she was inducted into the Indiana State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000.