Elon University Athletics

One of only two players in Elon women’s basketball program history with at least 1,300 points and rebounds, Jeannie Hairston-Eason was a five-year letter winner in basketball and a two-year volleyball letter winner as well.

Hairston-Eason is Elon’s all-time leading rebounder with 1,353 caroms, averaging 11.7 per game, second-most in program history. Her 1,357 career points rank ninth in school history to join former teammate and Elon Sports Hall of Famer Venessa Corbett as the only players to reach those combined totals.

Hairston-Eason also ranks seventh in career field goals made (545) and was 267-of-416 from the free-throw line over her career. Both of those totals are eighth in school history. She earned all-conference honors from 1980-82, all-state for 1981 and 1982, and all-regional in 1982. She was also Most Valuable Player of the 1982 Carolinas Conference Tournament.

As a volleyball player, Hairston-Eason was named to the 1980 and 1981 Carolinas Conference All-Conference team, as well as team MVP in 1981. She was named the winner of the department’s Browne Sportsmanship Award in 1982.