Nora Lynn Finch

Administration
Inducted: 2025

  • Coach for 13 years and an administrator for 47
  • Native of Henderson, North Carolina
  • Four-sport athlete at Western Carolina University
  • First women’s basketball, tennis, volleyball and field hockey coach at Wake Forest
  • First female assistant athletic director at a North Carolina NCAA Division I institution
  • First female associate commissioner of the ACC
  • Inaugural chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee, serving from 1981-88
  • Member of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and National Women’s, Western Carolina and Peace College athletic halls of fame