In five years at St. Mary’s University, Libby Johnson established women’s basketball and volleyball programs and set up the school’s physical education program.
I recently discovered Oct. 6 is National Coaches Day, designated in 1972 to honor those “friends and counselors” who get satisfaction through the achievements of others. Fittingly, the proclamation was endorsed by President Richard Nixon less than three months after he signed Title IX.
In five years at St. Mary’s, she established women’s basketball and volleyball programs and set up the school’s physical education program.also noted her unlikely appointment as men’s golf coach, writing that the 5-foot-5-inch-tall coach with the “West Texas twang” had to look up to her male players.
All appreciated the wisdom she shared in her cramped office, which served as both a “sanctuary” and a training room . I was in on some of those conversations as a member of her softball team, and I later cultivated a different relationship when I interviewed her as student sports editor and daily newspaper sportswriter.
Regardless of the differences in size and skill, players remember how she still imposed high expectations — often sprinkled with humor — to prepare them. One called her a master motivator who also encouraged them to play with their hearts.In my research, I found little about Johnson’s post-Trinity life after 1980 beyond her four years at Saint Mary’s Hall. In 1991, she died suddenly of an apparent heart attack.
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