Shannan Leigh Yancsurak

Shannan Leigh Yancsurak was born and grew up in Akron, Ohio, the youngest child of Lorene (Taylor) and Don Haddox, both retired Academics. She is of Irish, German and French decent from her mother's side and Scottish, Irish and German decent from her father's side. Shannan spent most of her childhood as a competitive gymnast and was ranked Regionally and Nationally for a short time. Her dreams of training with the famed Karolyis and going to the Olympics died when her parents said No to her moving to Texas alone at 16. Still full of an incredible amount of energy and ambition she turned to soccer and running. Shannan spent 4 years playing soccer at The University of Mount Union, where her all-time scoring record was recently broken (now shared). She also spent a great deal of time with her Sorority, Alpha Delta Pi, serving in various leadership positions as well as president president. She was honored to travel as a representative of Alpha Delta Pi for philanthropic activities for The