Hall of Fame
Betty Myers Kegley is the third former Athletic Director inducted into Mary Baldwin's Athletics Hall of Fame. Betty earned her undergraduate degree in Physical Education from Madison College [now JMU] in 1955 and went on to earn her Masters Degree in Physical Education there in 1961.
She came to Mary Baldwin in 1960 and retired as Professor Emerita of Physical and Health Education in 1998. Reviving the women's basketball program was her mandate when she arrived, but she taught and/or coached more than a dozen other sports during her tenure here.
She was a rated official of the U.S. Field Hockey Association and expanded the intercollegiate hockey program at Mary Baldwin in the 1960s and 70s. She also had official ratings in basketball, swimming and volleyball. During that time, she also was advisor to the Mary Baldwin Athletic Association as a division within SGA. Approximately 16 different sport/recreation activities were offered through the "clan plan." In 1961 she organized the first women's intercollegiate golf tournament in Virginia, the Mary Baldwin Golf Invitational, at Ingleside.
Beginning in 1965 she was a member of the Board of Directors for the Augusta County Chapter of the American Red Cross and received her 35-year volunteer service pin in 1990.
In the 1980's she segued into Athletic Administration and ushered Mary Baldwin into the transition era from club team sports to varsity sports as members of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), which eventually led to NCAA Division III and Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) membership.
Betty and her late husband raised their two daughters and son (a 1996 Mary Baldwin graduate) in Staunton, and now lives on her Dr. Doolittle-esque farm in Bland Va.
