Bettye Wallace
Bettye Wallace was a long-time coach and athletic administrator who mentored countless women athletes in both tennis and volleyball while also advocating for greater athletic opportunities for women in Arkansas.
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Lurlyne Greer Rogers
American basketball player in the 1940s and 1950s
Carolyn Moffatt
Carolyn Moffatt was a pioneering American women’s basketball coach in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Dr Josephine Flood
Josephine Flood was an archaeologist whose research highlighted the role of Bogong moths in the lives of Aboriginal people in southern highlands of New South Wales.
Sue Kidd
Sue Kidd was an Americanbaseball star who gained local fame for the athletic prowess she displayed while playing on and against all-male baseball teams.
Dawn Barlow Darter
American golfer
Karen Aston
American women’s basketball coach Karen Aston first had a successful high school and college playing career. She began her coaching career at the high school level before moving to college, where she served first as assistant coach before becoming a college head coach in 2007.
Deena Kastor
Deena Kastor is a long-distance runner, an Olympic medalist for the marathon, holds American records in both the marathon and half-marathon, and is an eight-time national cross-country champion.
Margaux Isaksen
Margaux Isaksen was a world-class competitor in the modern pentathlon, an Olympic sport in which athletes compete in fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and cross-country running. A three-time Olympian, Isaksen first started competing at the international level when she was fifteen.
All American Red Heads
A nationally known women’s basketball team, the All American Red Heads formed in 1936 in Cassville, Missouri, with Connie Mack Olson as its founder and coach.