Moravian announces new HOF members
Two local graduates of Moravian College were named to their 2015 Hall of Fame class, as four inductees will be introduced on November 6 in Johnston Hall.
Heather Bortz ’05 (Allentown, Pa.); Stephanie Rickards Corrigan ’99 (Bethlehem, Pa.); Christina Scherwin ’05 (Westport, Conn.) and James Van Natta ’59 (Clinton, N.J.) make up this year’s class and will be inducted along with the 1995 Greyhound Women’s Cross Country team.
Bortz, a 2005 Moravian graduate and a Parkland graduate, was a four-year letter winner on the softball squad.
She would go on to be a three-time All-American earning a spot on the First Team in 2004 as the Hounds reached the National Championship game that year and a Second Team selection in 2005. Heather set eight school records during her career and still holds four today including at-bats in a career with 567, hits in a season with 74, hits in a career with 253 and career batting average at .446. During the end of her sophomore season and into her junior year, she had a 44-game hitting streak which is still the collegiate softball record for all divisions of the NCAA.
Stephanie Rickards Corrigan, a 1999 graduate, was a four-year member of both women’s volleyball and women’s basketball teams. On the volleyball court, she set 13 records, nine of which are still school records including blocks in a career with 518 and career hitting percentage at .337. She is the only player in school history with more than 1,000 kills and 500 blocks as she added a then school record 1,422 kills in her career. She was a three-time Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth League All-Star selection, and she twice made the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Mid-Atlantic Region team and helped lead her team to NCAA Division III Tournament appearances in both 1997 and 1998. She later coached volleyball at Liberty.
Scherwin was a two-time NCAA Division III national champion in the javelin while at Moravian and competed in two Olympic Games, representing Denmark in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.
She won national titles in 2002 and 2003. She missed the 2001 meet due to injury and the 2004 championships while training for the Olympics. She was 29th in the javelin in 2004 and 44th in 2008. During her international career, Christina finished as high as fourth at the 2005 World Championships. At Moravian, she won the NCAA title in the javelin in 2002 and 2003, missing the 2001 meet due to an injury and the 2004 championships while training for the Olympics.
James Van Natta, a 1959 Moravian graduate, was a two-year letter winner on the baseball team before signing a professional contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization after his sophomore season in 1957.
The 1995 women’s cross country team finished third in the NCAA Division III national championship meet. This marked the Greyhounds’ third straight top 10 finish at the DIII Championships and matched the 1993 squad with a program-best third place finish.








