RALEIGH – Former NC State distance runner Julie Shea Sutton has been inducted into the 2023 USTFCCCA Hall of Fame, the league office announced on Wednesday. The Raleigh-native competed for the Wolfpack in both track and field and cross country from 1979-1982.
Over her four year career, Sutton collected seven National and ACC titles. She collected three individual National Championships in the 5000m, two in cross country, and one in both the 3000m and 10,000m. As for her ACC Championships, five came in track and field, two in cross country.
Sutton is an eight-time All-American in track and field and collected four All-American honors in cross country. In 1980, she won the Broderick Cup as the nation’s most outstanding women’s collegiate athlete. In the same year, she also won the Broderick Award, awarded to the nation’s top cross country runner.
One of her most impressive accomplishments came from 1980-1981, where Sutton claimed the McKlevin award in back-to-back years. This award symbolizes the ACC Athlete of the Year, and until the honor was split between males and females in 1990, Sutton was the first and only woman to win.
One of the most decorated athletes in NC State history joins the second group of inductees into the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame, after its establishment in 2022. Sutton is a 2012 inductee of the NC State Athletic Hall of Fame.
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