Highland Community College Athletic Hall of Fame
Inducted September 15, 2013
Following the directive of Title IX, intercollegiate volleyball was added at the College in 1974. College President Dr. Jack Nutt asked physical education instructor Glenna Batchelder to assume the duties of coaching HCC's volleyball team. Glenna sought the help of Dr. Richard Cox, a KSU professor, who became her mentor and friend for the next 25 years.
Dr. Cox commented, "... her genius, however, was not in the technical aspect of coaching volleyball, but in the ability to get the girls to work hard for her and to believe in her as a coach, mentor, and best friend. I have never seen a volleyball coach who could motivate her athletes as well as Glenna. She truly loved every young woman who played on her teams and they loved her in return."
Highlights of the many NJCAA awards her teams received were the 1976 team's advancement to the NJCAA National Volleyball Tournament in Cantonsville, MD, and the 1998 Number One Academic Team of the Year with a cumulative 3.53 GPA. Glenna coached for 25 years and had only three losing seasons. Her induction recognizes Coach B's excitment, enthusiasm, and enrichment in creating the HCC volleyball tradition that continues today.
