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Tory Plunkett arrived at Texas State for her first head coaching job with a $700 recruiting budget, no assistant coach, and the goal to turn around a program to be what it was built to be.
And as her coaching career at Texas State comes to a close after nearly 20 years when she retires after the season, she can only look back and see a path blazed with many stories along the way.
But her college tennis story does not start at Texas State. After helping Northwestern State win a Gulf Star Conference championship in 1986, Plunkett went on to play at TCU from 1986 to 1989.