Gale Lackey papers

Gale Lackey was a member of Wesleyan University's senior athletics department from 1978 to 2015. She served as the senior woman administrator in athletics and an associate athletics director, as well as an adjunct professor of physical education and an affiliated professor in women's studies (now FGSS). She coached the women's lacrosse and field hockey teams from 1978 to 1985, at which point she took over as the coach of women's volleyball. Lackey has the distinction of coaching Wesleyan women's teams to Little Three championships in three different sports (volleyball, field hockey and lacrosse). In 2001, she was named New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Coach of the Year. A 1970 graduate of West Chester St. College (now West Chester University), where she earned both her B.A. and M. Ed. degrees, Lackey spent seven years teaching and coaching field hockey and volleyball at Spring Grove (Pa.) High School before coaching a year of volleyball at the University of Bridgeport in 1977-78.