
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, September 18, 1994                   TAG: 9411020003
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV10   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: EMORY                                 LENGTH: Short

PULASKI COUNSELOR IS E&H HALL-OF-FAMER

Gina Miano, a licensed professional counselor who is supervisor and coordinator of dropout prevention programs at Pulaski County High School, was among three college athletes to be inducted Saturday into the Emory & Henry College Sports Hall of Fame.

A Radford native now living in Roanoke, Miano was a top member of the women's tennis team at the college. She played for four years at the number one singles flight for the team.

Miano was named Player of the Year in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference in 1985 and 1986, and twice named Emory & Henry's most valuable player. During three of the years she played, the team captured the conference crown.

She was nationally ranked during two of those years. As a sophomore, she was ranked as high as 24th nationally and, with doubles partner Elizabeth Cox, earned a national ranking as the number eight doubles team.

In her junior year, Miano was on the team that finished the season ranked third in the South Region. As a senior, she was named for the Hall Memorial Award, the highest honor given to a female athlete at the college.

Others to be inducted at a half-time ceremony during the 1:30 p.m. Emory-Bridgewater College football game are Gary Collier of Chesterfield, an All-America football player in the 1980s, and Daniel Large of Greer, S.C., an offensive lineman from football teams from 1967 to 1970. Collier is a state game warden with the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and Large works for the Norfolk Southern Corp.

by CNB