Successful college student-athletes are often expert multitaskers – balancing a heavy academic course load with all of the duties expected of a scholarship athlete in and out of season.
 
To say that Denise Ford Shipman did it all during her career at Campbell University would be a vast understatement.
 
On the basketball court, she was a three-time all-conference performer and helped lead the team to 80 victories – including one in the 1989 Big South title game – during her career.
 
Off the floor, she was voted the 1988 Homecoming Queen, was a cadet in the Reserve Officer's Training Corps and commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army upon graduation in 1989.
 
After serving in the Army, Denise earned multiple master's degrees and has devoted much of her professional career to public education.
 
She was inducted in the Campbell Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011 and this fall, will be enshrined in the Guilford County Hall of Fame.
 
In the next episode of Tales from the Creek, Denise Ford Shipman chats with Stan Cole about her path to Campbell, competing alongside three other Hall of Fame members, jumping out of airplanes, working in the education field and more.
 
Suggestions for future Tales from the Creek interview subjects are always welcome and may be sent to Stan Cole at cole@campbell.edu.