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Date Opponent Site I
Mon. Dec. 1 ........ University of Charleston ............... Home  
Thurs. Dec. 4 ........ Cincinnati .................,...,... Home  
Sat. Dec. 6 ........ Indiana University ................... Away .
Wed. Dec. 10 ....... Murray ............................ Away I
` Sat. Dec. 13 ........ Carson—Newman ............... Rupp Arena T
Thurs. Jan. 1 ........ Morehead ......................... Home  
Sat. Jan. 3 ........ Murray ............................ Home °
Tues. Jan. 6 ........ Northern .......................... Home I
Thurs. Jan. 8 ........ Louisville ............,............. Away I
Sun. Jan. 11 ........ Rutgers ........................... Away  
Tues. Jan. 13 ........ Western ........................... Away ·
Fri. Jan. 16 ........ L.l<.|.T ............................ Home ,`
Sat. Jan. 17 ........ L.K.l.T ............................ Home
Thurs. Jan 22 ......... Tennessee—Chattanooga .............. Home
Sat. Jan. 24 ........ South Carolina ...................... Home I
Tues. Jan. 27 ........ Eastern .......................,.... Away 1
Thurs.-Sun. Jan. 29-Feb. 1 .. SEC TOURNAMENT ................. Away .
Tues. Feb. 3 ........ Eastern ........................... I-Iome I
Fri. Feb. 6 ........ Tennessee ......................... Away ,
Tues. Feb. 10 ........ Northern .......................... Away I
Sat. Feb. 14 ........ Louisville .......................... Home I
Tues. Feb. 17 ........ Western ........................... l-lome
Sat. Feb. 21 ........ Morehead ......................... Away .
Feb. 26-28 ...... KWIC Playoffs ....................... TBA
Mon. Mar. 2 ........ Marshall ........................... Home I
Mar. 10 ........ Regionll (1stRound) ...... Site ofl-ligherSeed `
Mar. 13 ........ Region ll .................... Old Dominion
Mar. 14 ........ Region II .................... Old Dominion ·
LADY KAT ORIGIN
The name Lady Kat goes back to 1972. That's the year Sue Feamster, then
assistant director of campus recreation, coined the name. ,
Feamster wanted a name that would be instantly recognizable as a University of
Kentucky team, one that had dignity and refinement, yet strength.
The spelling of the name is also symbolic — —it capitalized on the word "Cats," and
yet accomplished the distinction the women needed by use of a K — Kats. 4

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· All-Conference .................. . . .65 Team Picture ..................... 40
I AlI—NWIT ......................... 65 Press-Radio—TV
Athletic Director Cliff Hagan ......... 10-12 Kentucky Outlets ................... 3
I Administrative Staff- Feamster, Ham, Working Information ................ 2
I Ivy, Bradley, Morgan ............ 15-I6 Roster ..........................,.. 4
I Basketball Staff Records
` Coach Terry Hall .................. 13 Individual, Team, LKIT, Misc. ...... 55-62
I Asst. Coach Dottie Berry ............ 14 Schedule .................. Inside Front
` LaFontaine, Porter, Dillon, Parker ..... 20 Scores, Game by Game
Kentucky Women's Intercollegiate Early Years .................... 67-68
I ¤¤¤*€i¤¤¤€ Recent Years .................. mg
i lm ’·"'·KW'° *°'aY€'$ ··-········--· 64 swing team .................... 54
` Lady Kat History .................. 2l-24 Series Record 6970
` Letten/vomen of the Past .............. 38 Sports information
Memorial Coliseum .................. 39 Rice Stacy 17
A Nickname, Origin of .......... Inside Front Koigrl Baxter, Cameron, Knowles . _ . l i 18
_ Opponents information ............ 41-54 Malkus 19
Outlook 1979-80 Statistics, 1980-8l
Letterwomen Returning ............. 4 Season ......................... 63
Letterwomen Lost .................. 5 Superlatives ..................... 58
Freshmen ....................... 5-6 Travel Headquarters .......... Inside Back
Prospectus ....................... 7 University of Kentucky
‘ Player Profiles ................... 25-37 General information ................ 8
Picture Pages .................. 80-88 President Otis Singletary ............. 9
. Compiled by Rena Koier, Assistant Sports Information Director
and Chris Cameron, Student Assistant
Edited and Produced by Russell Rice, Sports Information Director

 TO THE PRESS AND RADIO -TV
Here is your copy of the 1980-81 facts booklet on Lady Kat basketball, which we
sincerely hope will aid you in covering and answering questions on the Lady Kats
this season. lf you desire additional information, special stories, pictures or have
questions not answered herein, please feel free to contact the Sports Information
Office in Memorial Coliseum (Telephone A.C. 606-257-3838, 257-3839).
RUSSELL RICE RANDY STACY
— Director of Sports Information Asst. Director of Sports Information
Rena Koier
Asst. Director of Sports Information
Joyce Baxter Chris Cameron
Secretary Student Assistant
Laura Knowles Chuck Malkus
Student Assistant Student Assistant
Athletic Office Phones:
Cliff Hagan (Athletics Director)- (606) 258-2881
Sue Feamster (Assistant Director)- (606) 258-8604
Frank Ham (Assistant Director)—(606) 258-5611
Larry Ivy (Asst. Dir./Fin.)—(606) 258-4911
Coach Terry Hall- (606) 258-8852
Assistant Coach Dottie Berry- (606) 258-8852
Information
WORKING TICKETS-Address requests to Sports Information Office as far in
advance as possible. Tickets will not be mailed unless requested and will be held at
the Will Call window in front of Memorial Coliseum for pickup on game days or
nights.
PRESS DOOR—Entrance to the area set aside in Memorial Coliseum for press,
radio and TV is located inside and to the left of the entrance foyer. The Rupp
Arena entrance is Gate 5 on Patterson Street.
SERV|CES—Working press, radio and TV will be furnished game sheets,
brochures, running play-by-play, halftime quickie box score and final statistics in
the form of complete 12-column dittoed box score.
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CLIFFORD O. HAGAN .
Athletics Director
Consolidation of the men's and women’s tennis programs, expansion of the
sports information staff, bidding the radio contract for Wildcat football and basket-
ball, and securing of the bid for the 1985 NCAA Basketball Championship Tourna-
ment to be played in Rupp Arena were among the summer projects of Cliff Hagan,
whose tenure as UK athletics director has been marked by change and progress.
Hagan, who has seen and overseen vast improvements in all phases of the UK
athletics program since returning to his alma mater as assistant athletics director in
1972, has under his command a total of 16 sports ranging from football and men's
basketball in Level I, to women’s basketball in Level ll, and a baker's dozen sports in
Level lll.
A few of the recent improvements that signify the continuing progress of UK ath-
letics under Hagan include:
• Expansion of the football training room and addition of a beautiful pIayers’
lounge at Shively Sports Center.
• New carpeting in the stadium football offices.
• New food service equipment in the press box at Commonwealth Stadium.
• New basketball offices in Memorial Coliseum for both the men and women.
• Rearrangement of the baseball fences and a new surface for the running track
at Shively Sports Center.
The indoctrination of Hagan into the UK athletics administrative structure came
in 1972, when he was named assistant to Harry C. Lancaster and given the task of
implementing the Blue Er White Fund for 57,600-seat Commonwealth Stadium and
later for Rupp Arena. The fruits of his labors in this area have provided the ad-
ditional financial support that has elevated the UK athletics program into a first class
operation.
Hagan replaced Lancaster as athletics director in July, 1975; during the ensuing
school year, Wildcat teams compiled one of the best records in the school’s history,
with the basketball Wildcats winning the National Invitational Tournament, the
wrestling and rifle teams winning SEC titles and the baseball team winning the SEC
Eastern Division.
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ketball team finished with a 26-4 record and the football team won seven of 11 regu-
lar season games and defeated North Carolina in the Peach Bowl. lt was the best
UK football record in 23 years and the Wildcats’ first post-season appearance since
the 1952 Cotton Bowl. During the next year, the football team finished 10-1 (6-0 in
the Southeastern Conference) and the basketball team won the NCAA champion-
ship.
With both the football and basketball teams playing to sellout crowds and
drawing a big on-the-road following, Hagan has not been content, but has made
Wildcat games even more enjoyable by personally designing and selecting the
Wildcat Mascot, which has captured the fancy of UK fans everywhere, and by
granting permission for publication of "The Cats' Pause," a unique weekly tabloid
devoted strictly to UK sports.
Physical improvements during Hagan’s regime as athletics director include a 110-
yard Astro-Turf football practice field, modern equipment in both the Shively
i Sports Center and Memorial Coliseum weight rooms, Op€¤—typ€ lockers, a new
pressbox and new dugouts at the baseball field, and a revamped tennis complex
with additional seating and modernized offices. He has also added a strength coach
to work with all sports and funds for the popular Parcourse Fitness Trail.
Offices in Memorial Coliseum have been modernized and Hagan is looking for-
ward to the day when he can put on the drawing board an Olympic swimming pool
and a field house, which he says are "desperately needed for our program and our
students."
Hagan also has been an advocate of a strong scholar-athlete program, feeling "a
genuine commitment to provide all the academic support and encouragement we
can to help our athletes leave our campus with a college education and a degree."
On the personal side, Hagan received one of his highest individual honors last
May when he became the first University of Kentucky basketball player to be in-
stalled in the Naismith Memorial National Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield,
Mass.
The road to that honor began at Owensboro, Kentucky, where he established a
then state high school tournament record of 41 points, which was recently voted
the greatest individual performance by anyone in the history of that tournament, in
leading the Bed Devils to victory over Lafayette in the 1949 championship game.
At UK, he played on teams that won 86 of 91 games and an NCAA championship
(1951l. The 1954 team, undefeated in 25 games, elected not to participate in the
national tournament.
Hagan set a dozen Southeastern Conference records and an NCAA record of 528
rebounds as a junior. He averaged 24 points a game, led the nation in rebounding,
and scored a UK record of 51 points against Temple in 1954.
He was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity, Student Government, Baptist Student
Union, Fellowship of Christian Athletes and twice was selected among the top ten
students in the College of Education.
After graduating from UK in 1954, Hagan served two years at Andrews Air Force
Base, Washington, D.C., as a commissioned officer. He led the base to two World
Wide Air Force championships and won All-Service honors both years.
During ten years with the St. Louis Hawks, he ranked high among ll players on
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 the league scoring charts with 12,433 points in 672 games for an 18.5 mark and was
selected to play in five East—West AII—Star games and was named to the NBA
second All-League team twice. He hit over .790 from the free throw line seven years
in a row and held the NBA record for most field goals scored in a single quarter (12).
The Hawks won the Western Division six times during Hagan’s playing career
there and defeated the Boston Celtics in 1958 for the world championship. Hagan
was All—Pro in the NBA in 1957—62, inclusive.
He received his M.S. in education from Washington University in 1958.
In 1965, a Herbert Hoover Boys Club of America was organized in Owensboro
and named the Cliff Hagan Boys Club of America.
He then joined the Dallas Chapparals as player—coach and was selected as the
1968 Texas Professional Coach of the Year. When he left Dallas, he was only 92
points shy of a reguIar—season career total of 15,000 points.
In 1974, he was named to the Hall of Fame Magazine’s All-America second-team
for the 1951-1973 period, to the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel Star’s AIl—Time
Southeastern Conference first team, and the A|I—Time top collegiate player in the
State of Kentucky by Inside Kentucky Sports Magazine. ln 1975, he was named to
the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame, was inducted into the UK Alumni Association
Hall of Distinguished Alumni and was a recipient of the University of Kentucky
Centennial "K" Medallion tendered by the UKAA for past athletic ac-
complishments, during UK’s Centennial Year observance.
He is married to the former Martha Milton of Owensboro. They have four
children: Mrs. Barry Thaxton, Laurie, Amy and Kip, all of Lexington.
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TERRY HALL
Head Basketball Coach
Arriving at the University of Kentucky after an impressive five-year stint at the
University of Louisville, Terry Hall looks forward to the challenge of becoming
women’s basketball coach at UK. She brings with her substantial experience in var-
ious levels of women’s sports, an essential to elevating the Lady Kat program into
one of national stature.
She took over the position after Debbie Yow-Nance, head coach the previous
four years, resigned in mid-August.
Hall, the Cardinals’ first ful|—time women’s basketball coach, compiled a 79-53
record at U of L. She directed all aspects of the Louisville program, including sched-
uling, recruiting, preparing the budget and supervising the athletes’ housing.
As coach, Hall quickly developed Louisville teams from mediocre to highly com-
petitive. Last season she guided the Cardinals to their first Metro Conference cham-
pionship and a 13-7 record, defeating highly respected Memphis State in the post-
season tournament finals.
Her 11-year coaching career began at Butler High School in Louisville, where she
posted a 69-33 record, including two Jefferson County titles, during five years. Her
first coaching assignment at the collegiate level was at Eastern Kentucky University.
She stayed there one year, leading the Colonels to a KWIC title and a 14-6 mark.
In addition to her coaching duties, Hall is chairperson of both the Southern Re-
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