Temple University Athletics
Hall of Fame Coach Tina Sloan Green Honored With NACWAA Lifetime Achievement Award
9.17.08 | Baseball
Sept. 17, 2008
PHILADELPHIA - Former Temple women’s lacrosse coach and Temple Athletics Hall of Fame member Dr. Tina Sloan Green will be one of five women honored by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) with a 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization announced this morning. Sloan joins Dr. Leanne Grotke-Andreas (California State University Fullerton), J. Elaine Hieber (Iowa State University), Dr. Katherine Ley (posthumously) (Capital University) and Dr. Donnis Thompson (University of Hawaii Manoa) as the 2008 recipients.
Sloan Green is one of the most decorated college coaches in Temple athletics history, remaining the only coach to win three national championships. In 18 seasons as women’s lacrosse coach, she compiled an outstanding 207-62-4 record with a .758 career winning percentage, leading the Owls to three National Championships and 11 consecutive NCAA Final Four appearances. Sloan Green also holds the distraction of being the first African-American head coach in the history of women's intercollegiate lacrosse.
Her finest season came in 1988 when she led the Owls to their only perfect record (19-0), climaxed by a 15-7 victory over Penn State for the NCAA crown. Her teams had a record-setting 29 game winning streak during the 1983-84 and 1984-85 seasons. She also coached the field hockey team for five years and elevated that program to national prominence.
Along with her success on the field, Sloan Green’s work off the field may rival any of her athletic achievements. As a professor of Sport and Culture in Temple University’s College of Education, she served as co-principal investigator of Sisters in Sports Science, an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation, and Director of the Temple University National Youth Sports Program. In 1992, she co-founded the Black Women in Sport Foundation. She has also co-authored two books, Black Women in Sport and Modern Women.
Sloan Green was inducted into the Temple Athletics Hall of Fame on October 21, 1994. She has also been introduced into the West Chester Universities Hall of Fame, Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Women's Sport Foundation Hall of Fame. Professor Sloan Green competed on the U.S.A Women's Lacrosse Team (1969-1973) and the U.S. Women's Field Hockey Squad (1966).
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually to athletics administrators who have dedicated their professional careers to advancing women in sport. The 2008 Lifetime Achievement and Legacy Award Luncheon, sponsored by NIKE, will be held on Sunday, October 12, 2008, beginning at 12:30 PM at the NACWAA National Convention in Atlanta, GA at the CNN Omni Hotel.
