Carolyn Peck, a Jefferson City native was Tennessee’s Miss Basketball for 1984. She went onto play college basketball at Vanderbilt University from 1985 to 1988, averaging 10.6 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. Carolyn began her coaching career as an assistant to Lady Vols Coach Pat Summitt. After two championship seasons at UT, Carolyn became an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky. A year later, Carolyn became assistant coach at Purdue, where she eventually rose to head coach. In 1999, she was named Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year by the Associated Press and became the first woman and first African American to win the Winged Foot Award (honors the best coach in college basketball) from the New York Athletic Club. Carolyn left Purdue to coach the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Orlando Miracle team. Peck worked as a basketball analyst at ESPN for nine years. She is now an assistant women’s basketball coach at her alma mater, Vanderbilt.
