Teresa Phillips
Teresa Lawrence Phillips (born 1958) was the
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Phillips started at center in her sophomore and junior years, but lost her starting spot when the Commodores started adding more scholarship players. Nonetheless, she was named Lady Commodore Athlete of the Year in 1980, and also won the
Phillips graduated in 1980. She was working as an insurance broker in Atlanta when Vanderbilt's first full-time women's coach, Phil Lee, asked her to come back to Nashville as a part-time assistant. She stayed at Vanderbilt from 1981 to 1984, winning the National Women's Invitational Tournament in 1984. She was hired as head coach at Division III Fisk, also in Nashville, in 1984, and tallied a record of 62–38 in five years, winning two Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles. She moved to nearby TSU in 1989, taking over a team that had won a total of eight games in three years. She went 150–151 in 11 years, winning consecutive Ohio Valley Conference regular season tournament titles in 1994 and 1995. She also served as interim athletic director on two occasions while still serving as coach.[1] She was named interim athletic director for a third time in June 2001, and had the "interim" tag removed in 2002.[3]
A woman coaching a men's basketball team
In December 2002, men's basketball coach
References
- ^ a b c d Traughber, Bill. Former Vandy player leads TSU. Vanderbilt Commodores athletics, 2009-12-16.
- ^ Celebrating Change at Vanderbilt University
- ^ Teresa Phillips Named Athletics Director at Tennessee State
- New York Times, 2003-02-13.
- ^ Organ, Mike. Teresa Phillips 1st woman to coach a Div. I NCAA men's basketball team. The Tennessean, 2014-04-05.