 |
PATRICIA WAGNER HENRYAthlete, North Penn High School, 1967 5 Varsity letters: 2 Field Hockey. 2 Basketball, 1 Softball |
|
As an athlete Pat lettered in Field Hockey and Basketball her junior and senior years, and Softball her senior year. Upon her graduation from Gettysburg College, she returned to North Penn as a teacher and coach. She was assistant Girls Lacrosse coached for two years and began, under the tutelage of Jim Crawford Sr., North Penn’s inaugural Girls Cross Country, Track and Field program as a club in 1974-75. The following year North Penn Cross Country, Track and Field became a PIAA sport. During the decade of the 1970’s Pat served as the first coach of the North Penn Girls Swimming and Diving Team and accrued a dual meet record of 85-12-1, winning 8 Bux-Mont League Championships, the PIAA State Swimming and Diving Championship in 1979 and the PIAA State Runner Up Swimming and Diving Championship in 1980. Pat’s teams, won 3 PIAA State Relay Championships; earned honors with 4 individual All-Americans, 8 Relay All-Americans, 3 Relay Honorable Mention All-Americans, and 1 PIAA State individual record holder. Pat also served as the Chair of the PIAA District I Girls Swimming Committee from 1977-1980. A 1971 graduate of Gettysburg College, Pat was a standout Field Hockey and Basketball player and was honored as the College’s outstanding female athlete her senior year. She was inducted into Gettysburg College’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 1987, and has recently concluded a 14 year term as a member of the Gettysburg College Board of Trustees. Pat left North Penn High School in the fall of 1980 for Harvard University where she currently serves as the Senior Associate Director of Athletics, overseeing all program areas. Harvard offers the largest athletics program in the country – 1300 intercollegiate athletes and 4000 intramural/club athletes – combining the best of academic and athletic success. Historically Harvard has produced 42 Rhodes Scholars who were varsity athletes, 337 Ivy League Championships, 138 national/NCAA Championships, and representation in every Olympic Games since 1896. In 1981 Pat created the Harvard Radcliffe Foundation for Women’s Athletics to accelerate and broaden the base of support for women’s athletics and which has influenced fundraising strategies across the entire athletics program. Her continuing swimming interests landed her a spot on the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Committee between 1989-1995. She has also served on the Ivy League Policy Committee, was a former member and chairperson for the United States Olympic Committee Education Committee while representing the US internationally, played a leadership role in the hosting the first round of the Olympic Men’s Soccer competition in Harvard Stadium as part of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and was the President of the Boston Local Organizing Committee which hosted the 2006 NCAA Women’s Final Four Basketball Championship. In 2007 she was named NACWAA National Administrator of the Year in Division I-AA. |
|