Women's Tennis Team (1989)

This photograph shows the 1989 Springfield College women’s tennis team.They won first place in the New England Championship, won first place in the Northeast-10 Conference Championship, and had a record of 12-1-0 under the leadership of Coach Vern Cox (top row, left). Vernon W. Cox graduated from Springfield College in 1944 and immediately joined the Army Air Corp, where he fought in the Pacific Theater. In 1947, he joined the Springfield College faculty as a physical education instructor, where he coached soccer, basketball, tennis, lacrosse, cross country and track and field. In 1977, Cox became the college’s alumni director. He passed away in 1991, after forty-four years of serving the college community