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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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