Kathleen Brasfield, Angelo State, Administrator/Coach:  Hired in 1978 as ASU's head volleyball coach, Brasfield devoted the majority of her professional career to the university, taking over the post of women's athletic director in 1982 and overall athletics director in 2004.  Prior to the 2005 season, she retired as one of the winningest volleyball coaches in D-II history to focus on her responsibilities as athletic director.
      Her administrative accomplishments include establishing the first university endowment solely for Angelo State athletics, thanks to the support of Dr. Robert and Jean Ann LeGrand.  A separate gift from the LeGrand's provided a new scoreboard at the subsequently renamed LeGrand Sports Complex, formerly known as the ASU Multipurpose Sports Complex, and for improvements to the track facility prior to the NCAA D-II National Championships in 2009 when ASU hosted the meet for the fifth time in school history.
      She also oversaw ASU athletics grow to 13 sports, including baseball in 2005, women's golf in 2009 and women's indoor track and field in 2010. The softball team won a national championship in 2004 and the women's track and field team won in 2010 during Brasfield's tenure.
      Honors and awards for Brasfield include being named a member of the LSC's All-75 Year Team in 2007 as a volleyball coach and earning the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport Pathfinder Award for her contributions to the achievement of women in sports. Brasfield served as chair of the Division II Management Council in 2010 and receiving the Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year Award for Division II's West Region in 2011. Brasfield was awarded the Division 2 Athletics Directors Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 and was inducted into the Angelo State Athletics Hall of Honor and National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Hall of Fame in 2014.