Hall of Fame
Heidi Mann Vittengl is one of the most decorated three-sport athletes in New York State. A graduate of Queensbury High School (Section 2) in 1982 and the University of Florida in 1987, she lettered in field hockey, basketball, and outdoor track & field and excelled in all of them. In field hockey, she was a two-year varsity athlete helping her team win Section 2 and Class A Regional Championships. By the end of her senior year Mann Vittengl set the Section 2 record with 25 career goals, 15 assists and 65 total points. In basketball, she was a four-year varsity athlete guiding her team to Section 2 titles her junior and senior season. Her senior season she set the Section 2 career scoring record with 1,660 points. She was also named the 1982 Section 2 Most Valuable Player and an All-New York State First Team selection. Although Heidi excelled in field hockey and basketball, track & field is where she saw her greatest accomplishments. As a sophomore she set a NYS record in the pentathlon and as a junior broke her own record in the same event. As a junior, she snapped a state record in the pentathlon, only a one-day event at the time compared to the two days athletes get today. During her junior year Heidi also competed at the Athletic Congress Junior Track and Field Championships in Spokane, WA where she broke her own national high school record in the heptathlon. To this day she still holds the NYSPHSAA heptathlon record with 4,953 points. After high school Heidi continued her track & field career quickly becoming a two-time NCAA All-American, a three-time Penn Relays Champion in the heptathlon, and earned All-Academic Southeastern Conference (SEC) First Team honors four times, as well as winning the 1987 Southeastern Conference Heptathlon Championship for Florida. In 1987, Heidi qualified for the Olympic Trials in the heptathlon after breaking the Penn Relay’s heptathlon meet record. She succeeded after two career-threatening injuries; ankle ligament damage her senior basketball season setting her back in her final spring track season and also being struck in the ankle by a javelin during a college meet. During her high school career she also participated in the Empire State Games capturing the gold two consecutive summers. Heidi’s successes led to an inaugural induction into the Empire State Games Hall of Fame. In the late 1980' s she took up golf and earned a slot on the LPGA Futures Tour playing in ten pro golf events. She currently plays with a 4 handicap and has won 12 club championships.