ANNVILLE, Pa. --- Former Moravian University Head Women's Tennis Coach Dawn Ketterman-Benner has been selected as part of the 13th class to be inducted into the Middle Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame that has been announced by the MAC office over the last two weeks.
Ketterman-Benner, who was inducted into the Moravian Hall of Fame in 2018, arrived in Bethlehem in 1971 as a health and physical education professor, and in her early years, she coached badminton, archery and the cheerleaders along with assisting with the field hockey team and intramurals. Over her 43-year career, she also served as Moravian's Primary Woman Administrator, which eventually became the Senior Woman Administrator under the NCAA, Associate Athletic Director and the Chairperson of Moravian's Physical Education Department.
After Title IX was passed in 1972, Ketterman-Benner helped Moravian re-introduce women's basketball and eventually add the sports of cross country, soccer, softball and volleyball. She served as the first head coach for the volleyball program, coaching the sport from 1975 until 1987 with an overall record of 165-103. In 1987, Ketterman-Benner took over the reins of the women's tennis program from the late Betty Prince. In 27-plus seasons, she led the Greyhounds to a 288-117 record and 11 conference championships. Ketterman-Benner also led Moravian to its first-ever NCAA Division III Tournament appearance in 2007 and another berth in 2011.
Ketterman-Benner is a member of the East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Hall of Fame and was active in organizations outside of Moravian. She helped organize the Lehigh Valley Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (LVAIAW), and Ketterman-Benner was an early board member of the Lehigh Valley Tennis Association which has grown into the Eastern PA District Tennis Association, a group that honored her as well as the Middle States Tennis Association. Ketterman-Benner also helped bring the NCAA CHAMPS Life Skills program and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee to Moravian, and she served on the tennis committees in both the Middle Atlantic Conference and Landmark Conference during her career. In 1975, Ketterman-Benner helped create the LVAIC Dance Consortium and Lehigh Valley Dance Forum, and she received the Distinguished Service in Dance Award in 1992.
Moravian plans to honor Ketterman-Benner with her MAC Hall of Fame award during the upcoming year. More information on the presentation will be announced at a later date.
The MAC of which Moravian was a member from 1945 until 2007 established a Hall of Fame as part of the celebration of its 100th anniversary in 2012-13. Moravian's Rocco Calvo and Harvey "Gil" Gillespie were two of a 36-member inaugural class selected in 2011-12 from current and former MAC member institutions while Kathy Beck DeKorte '92 was honored in 2013-14, Doug Pollard was selected in 2014-15, Heather Bortz '05 was picked in 2015-16 and Christina Scherwin '05 and Heidi Wolfsberger Peoples '02 were honored in 2016-17. Emily Shertzer '02 was selected in 2017-18 while Scot Dapp was honored in 2018-19, Sean Keville '96 was selected in 2019-20, Meagan Hennessy '06 was honored in 2020-21 and Tracy Wartman '96 was selected in 2022-23. All 13 of the Greyhounds' MAC Hall of Fame selections are also members of Moravian's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Follow the MAC Class of 2024 Hall of Fame announcements at https://gomacsports.com/news/2024/6/3/general-mac-hall-of-fame-class-of-2024-announcements.aspx through June 14.
