Hall of Fame
A three-sport student-athlete, Tangela (Grant) Faulkner earned All- CVAC (Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference, now Conference Carolinas) honors in basketball in each of her two years at Mount Olive after transferring to MOC. As a junior, she ranked fifth in the nation with a school record 22.7 points per game scoring average during the 1996-97 season. Her 600 points that year remain the second highest single-season total and her 35-point performance against Belmont Abbey is still the third highest single-game scoring total in school history. She added 452 points in her senior year to put become the only player in Trojan women's basketball history (since becoming a four-year college in 1985) to surpass the 1,000-point mark in just two seasons.
Grant led the Trojan volleyball team in kills and blocks in her junior year, and was an all-conference selection as a senior. She had the second highest hitting percentage in the conference and ranked fifth in kills. Mount Olive won the 1997 CVAC Women's Volleyball Championship for the Trojans' lone conference tournament title. In addition to basketball and volleyball, Grant also competed in cross country. She is married to Trojan baseball alum Jeremy Faulkner.
