Completing the first father-daughter pair to ever be inducted into the Otterbein College Athletic Hall of Fame, Karen Linder follows her father, Richard “Dick” Fishbaugh, by becoming the second coach in the family to be given the honor. A 1980 graduate of Otterbein, Karen captained the softball and volleyball teams and was named Outstanding Female Athlete as a senior. With coaching in her blood, Karen began her career at Union College in Kentucky as the head basketball and softball coach before being offered the same positions at Ashland University in Ohio, where she stayed until 1996. During this time, Karen’s teams won the 1990, ’93, and ’94 conference titles and were ranked in the nation’s top 10 in team gradepoint average. Karen joined Kent State University in 1997 as the Head Softball Coach and, by 2007, became the winningest coach in school history. She and her father are the only father-daughter combination to win 600 career games as baseball and softball coaches in NCAA history.