BETTYW I S E M A N Senior Woman Administrator 45th Year at Belmont
For five decades, Betty Wiseman has been an active figure at Belmont University. As a student, coach, and professor, Wiseman has been a great ambassador for the University and the Department of Athletics. She currently serves as an Assistant Athletics Director for Student Services and as the school's Senior Woman Administrator. As assistant athletics director/senior woman administrator, Wiseman advises the athletic department on the status of women's sports and conducts administrative tasks in relation to women's sports. She also serves as athletics liaison to the University's departments of student affairs and residence life. In addition, she also leads service opportunities for student-athletes, including a yearly foreign mission trip, and serves as advisor to Belmont's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Wiseman also serves on many committees and boards. Recently, she began a four-year term as one of the Atlantic Sun Conference's representatives on the NCAA Management Council. The Management Council serves as the main legislative body for Division I sports. She has been a member of many Atlantic Sun Conference committees. After graduating from Belmont in 1965, the Portland, Tennessee native was named an Associate Professor of Health and Physical Education in 1966 and began a teaching career of 38 years. She continues to be a member of the Belmont faculty as she teaches part-time in the Department of Health and Human Performance. In 1968, the former high school basketball standout began a new career as a women's sports trailblazer when she founded the women's basketball program at Belmont, one of the first programs, not only in the state, but in the southeast. Wiseman was the head women's basketball coach at Belmont for 16 seasons, compiling a 248-152 record. She led Belmont to four consecutive berths in the National Women's Invitational Tournament from 1973-1977. In those tournaments, her teams knocked off such programs as Alabama, Nebraska, and North Carolina. She was inducted into the Belmont Athletics Hall of Fame in 1981. In recent years, Wiseman has been honored by several organizations for her contributions to collegiate athletics. In 1999, she was given the Josten-Berenson Service Award by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association during the NCAA Women's Final Four in San Jose to recognize her lifelong commitment to women's basketball. In 2003, Belmont honored her by naming part of the university's new athletic facility the StriplinWiseman Athletic Office Complex. Finally, in 2004, Wiseman was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame for her contributions to promoting women's basketball in the state. She is the first Belmont coach or athlete to be so honored. Wiseman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Belmont University (B.A. Physical Education) and a Master of Arts degree from George Peabody College for Teachers at Vanderbilt University and post masters work from Atlanta University. Betty Wiseman embraces Coach Brittney Ezell after her first home win at the helm of the Belmont women’s basketball program in 2010.
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