Barbara Hedges (2012) - USC Athletics Hall of Fame

Barbara Hedges

Induction:
2012

Barbara Hedges is credited with developing the USC women's athletics program during her 18-year tenure as a Trojan athletics administrator. She began her USC career as an associate athletic director in 1973, overseeing the Women of Troy to 13 national championships, then she became a senior associate A.D. in 1989. She added some men's sports under her supervision in 1985 (they won three national titles). Her groundbreaking career continued when she became Washington's athletic director from 1991 to 2004. During that time, she was the National Association of Collegiate Athletic Directors' first female president in 1996-97 and the first woman on the National Football Foundation's Board of Directors in 1998. She also served as president of the Council of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators and the Western Collegiate Athletic Association, and chaired numerous NCAA committees and presided over various national administrative organizations. A one-time gymnastics coach at Arizona, she was named to NACDA’s Hall of Fame in 2009 and won NACDA's Corbett Award in 2010, as well as the Pac012 Hall of Honor in 2020 and receiving the 2000 Honda Award of Merit.