Natasha Fife is part of the 2018 Pizza Hut Shocker Sports Hall of Fame induction class. The class will be inducted at a banquet on Sat., Jan. 27.
When women's athletics started at Wichita State, the coaches came from the Physical Education department, filled out their rosters from the student body and drove teams to games in cars.
"No overnight stays," said Natasha Fife, Wichita State's first women's athletic director. "Coaches would drive their own cars and pay for their own gas."
Fife, who taught in the P.E. department beginning in 1959, helped start Wichita State's women's athletic program – separate from the men's department – in 1969 with an announcement to form teams.