Charlene Cline was on the Coe College coaching staff from 1978 through 1987. She was one of the pioneer women coaches at the college level when women's athletics began taking giant steps toward equal emphasis with men's athletics. Her coaching record at Coe was filled with singular success that helped define the status of women's sports at the College.
She coached women's cross-country, basketball and track. Her teams won the Midwest Conference basketball titles in 1981, 1982 and 1983. In 1982 her track team won the Midwest Conference title.
In both 1981-82 and 1982-83 Coe won the Midwest Conference women's all-sports championship, an achievement that firmly established Coe's leadership in women's sports among conference colleges.
Char Cline also taught physical education, earning academic tenure in 1984. She taught theory and activity classes, supervised physical education student teachers, and coordinated all student advising for physical education majors.
Ohio was her home before she came to low and she earned both bachelor's and master's degrees from Ohio State University. After high school experience in Ohio and at the International School of Brussels, Belgium, she became women's track coach at Ohio Wesleyan University before coming to Coe in 1978.
For the past six years she has been head women's cross-country and track coach at Northwest Missouri State University. She left that post this summer to continue graduate work.
It is appropriate that both her coaching success and her role in bringing women's sports at Coe to a higher level be recognized by induction into the Kohawk Athletic Hall of Fame. We welcome Charlene Cline to this roster of those who have played preeminent roles in the development of Coe athletics.
