Interview with Sue Feamster, February 5, 2021

Project: University of Kentucky Athletics: Women's Basketball Oral History Project

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Sue Feamster was the University of Kentucky's Women's Varsity Athletics founder, Athletic Director for Women's Sports, and the first head coach of the UK women's basketball team. In this interview, Feamster discusses UK Women's Athletics during the period between 1966-1976. She discusses the UK women's basketball team each season from 1970-1976, touching on specific players and their skills, the budget for the women's team compared to the men's, and the team's records and main opponents each year. She discusses the transition from the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW) to the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). Feamster discusses her role in naming the UK women's basketball team the Lady Kats. She re-tells a story told in her previous interview about her idea that the women's basketball team could take over the timeslot in Memorial Coliseum before the men's varsity basketball games. She talks about UK becoming the first college to create a women's athletic department and she talks about being named its first athletic director. She talks about the recruiting rules in place at the time, the first women's basketball scholarships at UK, the first trainer for the women's basketball team, and Feamster's decision to step down as coach of the women's basketball team and hire a full-time coach.

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Interviewee Name

Sue Feamster

Interviewer Name

Valerie R. Still

Interview Date

2021-02-05

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Feamster, Sue Interview by Valerie R. Still. 05 Feb. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Feamster, S. (2021, February 05). Interview by V. R. Still. University of Kentucky Athletics: Women's Basketball Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Feamster, Sue, interview by Valerie R. Still. February 05, 2021, University of Kentucky Athletics: Women's Basketball Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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