Eastern Washington University Athletics

Zwarych-Shaw was a first team All-Big Sky Conference selection (then known as the Mountain West Athletic Conference) in 1984, joining future Eastern Hall of Famers Lisa Comstock (first team) and Brenda Souther (second team) on that squad. Zwarych also earned second team honors in 1983. She helped Eastern finish 21-7 overall and 12-2 in the league as a senior to finish as the Big Sky runner-up in both the regular season and tournament under Hall of Fame coach Bill Smithpeters. Zwarych finished her career from 1981-84 with 1,303 points, which was second in school history at the time. She also ranked in the top 10 in school history for career free throw percentage (.704), She owned the top two scoring performances in school history with 509 points in 1983 and 475 the following season, but those marks would be surpassed by Souther in 1987. She averaged 18.9 points as a junior and 17.0 as a senior, and her 217 field goals made and 473 attempts in 1983 were also both school records at the time. The 1984 EWU graduate went on to play two seasons in Australia, playing for Parramatta and Bankstown club teams. The year prior to her arrival in Australia, Eastern Hall of Famer Maria Loos played for Parramatta. In a tournament in Sydney, Zwarych played against Comstock and her club team from Germany. Originally from Vernon, B.C., Zwarych now resides in Riverside, Calif., where she has lived since 1987. Running and hiking are among her hobbies now, and she is a season ticket holder for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks NHL hockey team. She follows in the footsteps of a large group of former women’s basketball players inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame, including Loos (1999), Comstock (2003), Souther (1998), Janelle Ruen (2014) and Kathleen Nygaard (2015), as well as Smithpeters (2010) and the 1986-87 NCAA Tournament team (2013).