Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 1993
Casey's affiliation with Wake Forest began in 1949, when she joined the physical education faculty. She was active in a leadership capacity in the physical education field before becoming officially involved with intercollegiate athletics in 1974 when she replaced Crisp as women's athletic director at Wake Forest. In that role, she guided the Deacon women's program through Title IX and from the physical education program into the athletic department. Her first women's teams at Wake Forest competed at the AIAW Division II level; her final squads just prior to her retirement in 1988 were contending for national honors on the NCAA Division I level.
Casey was born in Dudley, N.C., and attended Louisburg Junior College before graduating from UNC Greensboro (then Women's College) in 1948. She received her master's degree from the UNC Chapel Hill in 1951. She joined the Wake Forest physical education faculty in 1949 and remained at Wake throughout her professional career.
"When I came here in 1949, women's athletics were purely intramural," Casey said in an interview with Window on Wake Forest in 1988. "Part of my job was to encourage female students to play a sport - any sport - whether it was basketball, golf, table tennis or shuffleboard."
She was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame on Jan. 8, 1993.
