Samford Hall of Fame Members
Biography
Induction Class: 2023
Sport: Softball
Megan Dowdy was a standout center fielder for the Samford softball team from 2013 to 2016. She led the team in hitting in three of her four seasons and was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year after leading the Bulldogs to the program's first SoCon regular season title in 2016. That season, the team also won the SoCon Tournament and reached the program's first NCAA Tournament. Dowdy's .437 batting average in 2015 and her 24 doubles in 2016 are both still school single-season records. She still holds the career record for doubles with 48, and her .363 career average was a school record at the end of her career and currently ranks second in school history. After graduating, she went into coaching, spending three seasons as an assistant at Samford, one at Mercer and two seasons as the head coach at Asbury University.
