{"id":343739,"date":"2025-12-12T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343739\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:06:08","slug":"tales-from-the-creek-betty-jo-clary-womens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343739\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Creek | Betty Jo Clary &#8211; Women&#8217;s Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/honors\/hall-of-fame\/betty-jo-clary\/39\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Jo Clary<\/a> arrived at Campbell College in the fall semester of 1976 but was already a pioneer in women&#8217;s collegiate sports.\u00a0 In the days before scholarships were provided to young ladies for athletic achievement, Betty Jo was a leading figure in the growth of female athletics in North Carolina.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA native of High Point and graduate of Western Carolina, she played a vital role as Campbell \u2013 and many other schools in the state \u2013 moved from AIAW to the NAIA and ultimately to NCAA Division I status in the 60s, 70s and 80s.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAlong the way, Betty Jo helped lay the foundation of Campbell&#8217;s women&#8217;s athletics program, while leading the basketball team to a 70-44 record and five-straight winning seasons.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn addition to carrying a full teaching load, she also coached Campbell&#8217;s softball team for several years and the volleyball squad for two seasons.\u00a0 In a career that spanned three decades, Betty Jo also coached field hockey and tennis during her tenure.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShe was inducted into the Campbell Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the next episode of Tales from the Creek, Fighting Camel Hall of Fame member Betty Jo Clary chats with <a href=\"https:\/\/gocamels.com\/staff-directory\/stan-cole\/5\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5\" target=\"_blank\">Stan Cole<\/a> about growing up in High Point, her path to Campbell, the growth of women&#8217;s athletics and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Betty Jo Clary arrived at Campbell College in the fall semester of 1976 but was already a pioneer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-343739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}