Fort Lewis College Athletics

Lynn Barngrover was instrumental in getting women's intercollegiate athletics off the ground at Fort Lewis College in 1969. She was a star athlete in volleyball and basketball for three seasons and was captain of Fort Lewis College's first-ever volleyball team.

Barngrover was active in numerous activities at Fort Lewis College, including intramurals, band, and dorm-related responsibilities. She was supervisor of intramurals her senior season, and was also active in community recreation as a league supervisor and official.

She graduated cum laude from Fort Lewis College in 1972 with bachelor's degrees in biology and physical education.

Barngrover attended graduate school at Colorado State University for the next two years, and was an assistant women's basketball, tennis, and field hockey coach during her stay in Fort Collins. She received her master's degree in education from Colorado State in 1980.

For two years from 1976 to 1978, Barngrover served as physical education instructor, head women's basketball coach, and head men's and women's tennis coach at Dodge City Community College in Kansas.

She taught physical education and biology at Worthington Community College in Minnesota from 1978 to 1981, coaching basketball and volleyball two of those seasons. Her first WCC basketball team won district and regional championships in route to a 25-2 record. Barngrover was named Regional Coach of the Year that season.

She then changed careers, and in 1986 earned an associate's degree in mechanical engineering and computer science from Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minn.