UW Athletic Hall of Fame
Kit Saunders-Nordeen
- Induction:
- 1998
- Provided the leadership for a UW women's athletic program through the Women's Recreation Association beginning in 1967
- Appointed the first Director of Women's Athletics at Wisconsin in 1974, and served in that role until 1983
- Named Associate Athletic Director for men's and women's sports at UW-Madison in 1983-1991
- Chairperson of the Wisconsin Division of Girls and Women in Sports from 1974-76
- Commissioner of the six-state Midwest Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (MAIAW) from 1974-77
- Coached the Wisconsin women's tennis club team from 1966-74
- Helped found the Wisconsin Women Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 1971, she served as its president from 1978-79
- Served as first vice-president of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) from 1979-82
- Received the Distinguished Service Award from the Wisconsin Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 1982
- First inductee into the UW Women's Athletic Hall of Fame (1984)
- Named National W Club Woman of the Year in 1991
- Inducted into the Madison Sports Hall of Fame in 1992 and given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Sports Advocates of Wisconsin in 1997
- Earned an M.A. (physical education) and a PhD (educational administration) from the UW in 1966 and 1977, respectively
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