Carole Huston (2025) - Hall of Fame - Bowling Green State University Athletics

Carole Huston

Induction:
2025
Class:
1962

Carole Huston, a native of Dayton, is a two-time graduate of the University. She earned a degree in theater arts in 1962, then earned a second degree in health and physical education in 1966. Huston competed on the tennis team at BG, and after teaching at the high-school level, she spent three years as a coach and teacher at Ashland College (now University).

In 1970, Huston was hired at Eastern Michigan University as a physical education instructor. She served the first of two stints at EMU from 1970-76, coaching the school’s women’s tennis and women’s swimming teams. In 1975, Huston became the school’s first women’s athletics director.

The next year (1976), she came to BGSU as an associate athletics director. That ‘76 year saw the first athletic scholarships awarded to women at BGSU, and there was a merger of the women’s and men’s intercollegiate athletic departments. Huston was the first woman in the United States to be hired as a full-time administrator of women's and men's non-revenue sports at an NCAA Division I institution. In 1982-83, she served a stint as interim athletics director.

Huston returned to EMU in 1991 as senior women’s administrator, a position she held until her retirement in May of 2003. Huston served as EMU’s interim athletics director from 1997-99, and her experiences also included serving as the AIAW commissioner of national championships. She was inducted into the EMU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.