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Inducted
Sept. 19, 1997
Peggy
Allen McCoy(Basketball - 1987-91) Peggy Allen McCoy
lettered in basketball four years and is the Pioneers'
all-time scoring leader with 1,783 points. She also holds
five school records - best field goal percentage in a season
(.604), most blocked shots in a season (56), most points
in a game (42), best field goal percentage in a game with
a minimum of six field goals made (1.000, 8/8), and most
blocked shots in a game (9). Her senior year, the 6-2 post
was honored as the Lone Star Conference Preseason Player
of the Year, and then earned the LSC Defensive Player of
the Year award. Allen McCoy was twice a 1st Team All-Conference
unanimous selection. In 1989-90, when TWU finished runner-up
in the conference tournament to West Texas State, she was
voted to the all-tournament team. She was also tapped conference
Player of the Week twice in her last two seasons.
Allen McCoy
received many prestigious awards throughout her career. She
was named to the Kodak Women's All-District Basketball Team
in 1990, and was a Kodak All-America Honorable Mention in
1991. She was one of seven finalists in Div. II for the 1991
Champion USA/WBCA Player of the Year, an award given annually
to the player selected as the best in her division by members
of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
The Pioneer
cager married Stacy McCoy in March 1990, then finished her
collegiate basketball career at TWU in 1991. She returned
in 1993 and graduated with a B.S. in Child Development. The
McCoys lived in Maryland at Fort Detrick Army Base from 1991-95.
In 1994-95, she played basketball in the Washington Area
Military Athletic Conference. In 1995, the McCoys moved back
to the DFW area after Stacy finished his Army tour. Peggy
teaches at Lake Worth High School where she is the head coach
for track and JV basketball. In May of this year, she was
extended an invitation to try out for the Los Angeles Sparks
and the Cleveland Rockers of the WNBA. She resides in Fort
Worth with her husband and two stepchildren, Deon, 10, and
Cherika, 8.
Donna
Terry (Softball Coach - 1977-81) Donna Terry arrived
at TWU in the fall of 1977 to do her master's work and
agreed to take the helm of the Pioneer softball program
from Jo Kuhn. Terry also played for the Connecticut Falcons
of the Women's Professional Softball Association. She was
part of the pitching rotation with the renowned Joan Joyce.
In the summer of 1978, the Falcons won their third straight
world championship. Terry was voted MVP of the league with
a 15-2 pitching record and .374 batting average. She also
led the league in home runs.
In four
seasons as TWU's head coach, Terry compiled an incredible
240-47 (.836) record. Her teams won three state and two Southwest
Region titles, and her student-athletes won every conceivable
accolade, from All-Conference to All-American recognition,
and the Broderick Award. But it was her opportunity to play
overseas that kept her from witnessing her team's greatest
achievement - winning the 1979 AIAW/ASA Women's College World
Series. She played in a series of exhibition games with the
Falcons, the first U.S. softball team to tour China, while
the Pioneers came from behind to win back-to-back games against
UCLA and claim the national title. That year, Terry was named
MVP of the International Women's Professional Softball League.
She also competed for the Puerto Rican National team in the
Central American Games and the Pan American Games in 1979.
When TWU
softball was dropped in 1981, Terry went to Puerto Rico to
coach their national team. She then enjoyed a successful
career at the University of California - Berkeley. While
at Cal, Terry's teams compiled a 165-91-1 (.629) record,
including two conference titles and a third place finish
at the NCAA Championship, the highest ever in the history
of the softball program. Terry was honored as the 1987 Pacific-10
Conference Coach of the Year, and a number of Cal players
earned All-Conference and All-Region honors under her tutelage.
One of the few collegiate coaches to record over 400 career
victories, she had a nine-year career mark of 405-144-1 (.737).
Terry passed
away June 27, 1988, in Little Rock, Ark., from complications
due to hepatitis. Her father, Francis Terry, and sister,
Wren Kennedy, were present for her posthumous induction.
Donna
Grant (Volleyball - 1972-76) Donna Grant was a member
of the Pioneer volleyball team that placed second in the
1973 AIAW National Championship, and then fifth in the
1974 national tournament. The 6-2 middle blocker graduated
from TWU in 1976 with a B.S. in Health and Physical Education,
and embarked on a successful 17-year coaching career at
the junior high and high school level.
She was
the head volleyball coach at Nimitz High School in Irving,
Texas, from 1976-80. Then in her first year as the head coach
at Spring (Texas) High School in 1980, Grant's team won the
4A state championship. She coached at Spring until 1991,
and then became certified as an administrator. Grant stayed
in the north Houston area and was the volleyball coach and
10th grade assistant principal at Westfield High School from
1991-93. She also taught volleyball at North Harris County
Community College.
Grant earned
a Master's of Education degree with Administration/Mid-Management
Certification from Sam Houston State University in 1992.
In 1993, she retired from coaching and began her career in
education administration full time. She spent two years each
at Thornton Junior High and Knox Junior High as an assistant
principal before returning to Spring High School this year.
Over the
course of her coaching career, Grant has won a state championship,
and four bi-district, three area, and eight district titles.
Her overall record is 315-156 (.669) and her district record
is 154-51 (.751). She coached three all-state and six academic
all-state players. In 1990, she served as president of the
Texas Girls Coaches Association. She was voted by her peers
to coach the East All-Star Team in 1983 and again in 1993.
Ironically, Grant played on the All-Star Team her senior
year at Richardson Berkner High School against former Pioneer
head volleyball coach Patty Dowdell, who was a senior at
Spring Woods High School.
Grant is the principal of Summit High School in Mansfiled, Texas.
Jo Kuhn (Director
of Athletics, 1982-92, Asst. Professor, 1967-97, Golf, Basketball
and Softball Coach) With more than 30 years of accomplishments
as an administrator, coach, and teacher, Jo Kuhn has established
herself as an ardent promoter and devoted supporter of women's
athletics.
After playing
on the LPGA tour for three years, Kuhn was appointed to the
kinesiology faculty at TWU in 1967. She coached the golf,
basketball and softball teams to numerous state titles.
Kuhn became
TWU's Director of Athletics in 1982 at a time when Athletics
had been reduced to a marginal, no-scholarship program with
virtually no financial or university support. In ten years,
she moved the program from the cellar to a nationally recognized
contender. As an independent school, Kuhn succeeded in gaining
admission to the Lone Star Conference, a Div. II conference
for schools with programs in both men's and women's sports.
In 1988, TWU was admitted by a unanimous vote, making it
the only women's institution in the nation in a co-ed athletic
conference.
Because
of the direction set by Kuhn and embraced by the current
administration, TWU student-athletes have maintained a cumulative
GPA of 3.0 or better for the past 15 years. More than $750,000
has been designated for athletics scholarships through the
fundraising efforts of the Pioneer Scholarship Campaign,
which Kuhn established in 1984.
Kuhn has
accomplished many things in her career. Some of the highlights
include: Vice President of the Texas Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women; U.S. Softball Selection Committee for
the Pan American Games; Commissioner of AIAW Region 4; and
National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Adminstrators
Board of Directors. Kuhn was instrumental in proposing a
bill to the NCAA and obtaining a favorable vote to permit
try-outs for Div. II institutions. She was elected to the
Ursinus College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1988. Kuhn received
one of the highest honors of her career in 1992 when she
was inducted into the National Sport Hall of Fame by the
National Association for Sport and Physical Education. The
award is given to the outstanding individual who has made
significant contributions to maintaining sport as an integral
part of the total education program.
Kuhn resigned
as A.D. in 1992 so she could return to teaching. In December
1992, TWU Athletics established the Jo Kuhn Leadership Award
to be presented each spring to the student-athlete who has
demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities. She retired from teaching in 1997. She resides in Denton.
Update (8/18/05) NACWAA HONORS JOANNE “JO” KUHN With Lifetime Achievement Award
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