Women in Sports
Terri Cecil-Ramsey (Jefferson, b. 1966)
Cecil-Ramsey was a national champion and member of the USA Paralympics wheelchair fencing team in 1996. In 1997, this Louisville resident won Ms. Wheelchair America.
Diane Dailey (Franklin, b. 1949)
President of the National Coaches Association and presently women’s athletic director at Wake Forest College. Dailey helped start the Hospice Pro Am Golf Tournament in Frankfort and is a member of the Ladies Pro Golf Association.
Bettie Lou Evans (Fayette, b. 1942)
As the head coach of the University of Kentucky women’s golf team, Evans claims the longest tenure of any women’s golf coach in the Southeast Conference and was inducted into the National Golf Coaches Hall of Fame in 1997.
Geri Grigsby (Floyd, b. 1959)
During the early days of Title IX legislation, Grigsby became a lead scorer in the state of Kentucky. While playing basketball for McDowell High School from 1974-1977, she set several scoring records including the record for most points scored (female or male) by a high school student athlete in the history of Kentucky.
Bernadette Locke-Mattox (Fayette, b. 1958)
Locke-Mattox has greatly contributed to the world of women’s sports since her arrival at the University of Kentucky. One of the first women to act as an assistant coach of a men’s basketball team, and has an outstanding record as the current head coach of the women’s team.
Tori Murden-McClure (Jefferson, b. 1963)
Murden-McClure has several firsts: first woman and American to cross-country ski
to the geographic South Pole, first woman to climb Lewis Nunatuk Summit in
Antarctica, and most recently, the first woman to row across the Atlantic. Murden-McClure also graduated from law school and divinity school.
Tamara McKinney (Fayette, b. 1962)
In 1983, McKinney became the first U.S. woman to win a world cup in downhill skiing.
Audrey Whitlock Peterson (Warren, 1903-1978)
The coach of the state champion girls’ basketball team from Woodburn in 1932,
when the KY High School Athletic Association outlawed female competition because “it was not good for their bodies.” Not until 1975 was competition brought back.
Mary T. Meagher Plant (Jefferson, b. 1964)
Sports Illustrated called her win “the fifth greatest, single event record of all time in any sport.” She swam the butterfly stroke to 3 gold medals at the 1984 Olympics.
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