Union College Athletics

As a coach of no fewer than four Union teams between 1977-97, Martha "Marty" Morrison helped to establish multiple female sports in the early stages of coeducation at Union and affected the lives of countless female student-athletes in the process.
 
Morrison did everything during her time at Union, coaching women's lacrosse for 13 years as well as seven years with the field hockey team, six years with the women's soccer team and three years with the swimming and diving program. For a three-year stretch from 1984-87, Morrison coached soccer in the fall, swimming in the winter and lacrosse in the spring. She also served as Senior Woman Administrator at the school and helped to establish the Friends of Union Athletics program that remains a vital source of support for the Athletics Department.
 
Her first coaching appointment at Union came with the field hockey team, which she took over in 1977 and promptly led the third-year program to a 34-14-2 record over her first four years and a top seed in the 1979 New York State Tournament. She remains the program's leader in career winning percentage, posting a 52-37-3 (.582) record in seven seasons. Her longest tenure came with women's lacrosse, where she won 59 games over 13 seasons, including an 8-3 record in 1981 that marked the most wins for the program until 1998. She also coached two different Union teams to the first wins in program history, taking over the soccer program in 1983 in its third year of play and serving as the first coach of the swimming and diving program from 1984-87.
 
Then, when it seemed she had coached her last game at Union following the 1988-89 school year, Morrison helped out the department by returning to the sidelines for one last year with the field hockey and lacrosse squads during the 1996-97 school year, winning 13 games between the two teams.