Hall of Fame
Dianthia Ford-Kee has enjoyed a tremendous amount of success with her softball and volleyball programs. Her team members have won NCAA national statistical honors, CIAA Divisional Titles as well as NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. Her team won the CIAA Softball Championship four times (1993, 1994, 1996 and 2003) and the CIAA Volleyball Championship twice (1993 and 1995). Ford-Kee was named CIAA Softball Coach of the Year in 1993, 1994, 1996 and 2003 and Volleyball Coach of the Year 1996 and 2001. The 1994 softball team has gone undefeated in the CIAA and 1994 compiled an overall seasonal record of 30-9. She earned her 100th softball coaching win against DI George Masson in 1994. Ford-Kee led Shaw to a volleyball conference record of 196-61 and an overall record of 247-158. Softball conference record of 121-37 and overall mark of 309-207.  In November 2016, she was inducted in Shaw University’s Athletic Hall of Fame.
While competing in the sports of basketball and softball as a student-athlete at Fayetteville State University she was a member of the 1979 CIAA Women’s Basketball Championship Team and the 1982 CIAA Softball Championship Team. Ford-Kee earned several All Conference and Tournament Team honors and was selected MVP of the 1982 Softball Championship Tournament. In 1982, she was selected Fayetteville State University’s Athlete of the Year and was the youngest inductee into Fayetteville State University’s Athletic Hall of Fame (1997) and is a 2016 inductee into the CIAA Hall of Fame and Shaw University’s Athletic Hall of Fame.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Fayetteville State University in 1982 and a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from Northern Illinois University in 1984. A native of Lawrenceville, N.J., Ford-Kee was inducted into the inaugural class of Lawrence High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008 as the first athlete in the history of the high school to score over 1000 points playing only 3 years of high school basketball. She currently holds basketball records that have not been broken at Lawrence High School in its 48 years of existence.
She is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA), Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., and the Dorothy I. Height Quad Counties Section of the National Council of Negro Women (Parliamentarian) and LIFT Community Leadership Council of Greenwood Mississippi.
Ford-Kee is married to Preston G. Kee, Jr., and the mother of Brandon and Fannézha Ford and Iman Kee.
