Hall of Fame
Teresa McNair played four seasons at EKU from 1999-2003 and started in all but five of the 116 games she played for coach Larry Joe Inman’s women’s basketball team. She was an integral part of 76 victories during her career at Eastern, which included a fantastic junior year in 2001-02 that saw EKU finish with a 23-8 record, the regular season Ohio Valley Conference title and an advancement to the Women’s Invitational Tournament Sweet Sixteen. She closed her Eastern career with 1,183 points which ranks her 15th on the Lady Colonels’ all-time scoring list. McNair led the OVC in steals each of her four seasons at Eastern and holds the conference career steals mark with 406. As a Class 5A first-team All-State choice out of Forest High School in Ocala, FL, she made an immediate impact at Eastern, averaging 10.0 points and being named to the All-OVC Freshman Team. As a sophomore, she started all 28 games and won the second of four EKU Team Defensive Awards she collected in her career. Her junior season saw her score 11.1 points per game and finish 24th in the nation in steals per game as Eastern won the regular season OVC title, total 23 wins, second most in program history, defeat Southwest Missouri in the opening round of the WNIT and host Alabama in the Sweet 16 of the WNIT. As a senior, she set EKU and OVC single season records for steals with 131 and led the nation in steals, while averaging 10.8 points per game and being named first-team All-OVC. She also holds the school single game record for steals when she had 11 in a win over Jacksonville State as a senior. She is also listed among Eastern’s top 10 career leaders in field goal percentage (fifth, .488); rebounds (eighth, 631); free throw percentage (ninth, .736); and blocks (tied for 10th, 37). She earned her degree in Business Administration and Information Technology from EKU in 2003. She then graduated from Saint Leo University with a master’s degree in Business Administration with concentration in Information Security Management in 2010. Now she is working toward her master’s degree in Education Leadership from Grand Canyon University to be completed in January, 2013. In 2006, she was offered a job in secondary education teaching introduction to Information Technology. She became the first African American women’s head basketball coach at Forest High School in Ocala, FL, in 2006.
