Holds a special historical role in women's basketball in Indiana, being Indiana's first Miss Basketball and a member of the first IHSAA Girls' Basketball Championship Team in 1976 coached by Hall of Fame inductee Jan Soyez ... hit five free throws in the final sixty-four seconds to ice a 57-52 triumph over Bloomfield before a crowd of 7,362 ... chosen as the first recipient of the Mental Attitude Award ... after graduating from Franklin College she coached at South Dearborn, Maconaquah and Carmel High Schools ... while at Carmel she guided the Greyhounds to a state runner-up finish in 1995.