Selected as Virginia Wesleyan College's Athletic Director in
December 2007
Received her master's degree in Human Resource Management from
Alabama's Troy State University in 1999
One of the six originial female athletic scholarship recipients
at Old Dominion University, where she played basketball and tennis
and received a bachelor's degree in Psychology in 1976; also
studied at James Madison University
2013-14 marks her 19th year at VWC, where she has held a
variety of responsibilities, ranging from coaching to raising funds
for the athletic department
Instrumental in winning the NCAA's bid for the 2004 and 2005
Division III national women's basketball championship tournament,
which was hosted by VWC
Will serve as VWC's tournament director for the 2013 NCAA
Division III Field Hockey championships
Began her career at VWC as the head women's tennis coach in
1995, a position she held through 1999
Served VWC as the head women's basketball coach from 1997
through 2003
Former teacher and head girls' basketball coach at Norfolk
Academy, where her teams compiled a 250-128 record and won two
conference championships and two tournament titles
Former girls tennis coach at Norfolk Academy, where she led her
teams to a 107-10 dual match record and seven consecutive Tidewater
Conference of Independent Schools championships; also coached
tennis four years at The Saint Edward's School in Vero Beach,
Florida, prior to her stint at Norfolk Academy
Graduate of Virginia Beach's Frank W. Cox High School
Currently serving as the Old Dominion Athletic Conference
President
Current member of the NCAA Division III Women's Soccer
Committee
Member of the Hampton Roads Hall of Fame Committee and the
Virginia Beach Sports Grant Committee
Former member of the NCAA Nominating Committee
Former member of the board of the Hampton Roads Sports Facility
Authority
Accomplished wood-wind musician
Avid hiker and climber who has ascended 48 North American
peaks, including Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, and the highest point
in the USA, Mount Whitney
Has backpacked the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to
Maine, the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in
California and the Colorado Trail and will trek the Camino de
Santiago (The Way of St. James) in northwestern Spain in June
2013
