Lucille Kyvallos

Categories: Class of 2025
  • Head Coach at West Chester State College, where the team’s record was 52-2 (1962-1966)
  • Head Coach at Queens College (1968-1980) and (1981-1982), the record 259-71
  • 81% winning percentage in a collegiate career (311-73)
  • AIAW National Championship versus Immaculata beat previously undefeated Immaculata before a crowd of over 3,300 with national media coverage (1973)
  • Historic game at Madison Square Garden, the first women’s collegiate basketball game played at the Garden, with over 12,000 spectators (1975)
  • Lady Champion Sportswear National Coach of the Year (1976)
  • AIAW Basketball Committee (1972-1976)
  • AAU/Division of Girl’s and Women in Sports (DGWS) Women’s Basketball Rules Committee (moved the women’s game to the “Rover” game and next step towards 5-on-5) (1969-1971)
  • Inducted into the Springfield College Athletic Hall of Fame, Queens College Athletics Hall of Fame, New York City Basketball Hall of Fame, West Chester College Hall of Fame
  • The Queens College Fitzgerald Gymnasium is named the “Lucille Kyvallos Court.”
  • Head Coach of the Silver Medalist US Women’s Team at the World University Games (1977)
  • US Olympic Committee Member (1969-1972) and (1974-1976)
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