Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

True, IUP launched its current program of varsity sports for women in 1970, the first as a four-year college or university (there had been women's basketball teams at the two-year Indiana Normal School prior to 1920).
But for a time in the 1950s a very few women did compete at the varsity level. None more extensively, though, than today's Hall of Fame inductee, Dr. Ruth Martin Haude, who played more than enough to letter four years for the men's tennis team from 1955 through '58.
How far things have advanced, however, is reflected by Martin being awarded only a single letter (and that only as a result of Indiana's Business and Professional Women's Association waging a campaign in her behalf) in 1958 after she had played at number-one singles as a freshman and sophomore and at number-two her final two years.
That same year she was presented a Pittsburgh Bicentennial Sports Award. In 1964 she competed in the United States Ladies Tennis national singles championships at Forest Hills, New York, after winning six Western Pennsylvania singles titles; no one has ever won as many. She met similar success at other venues. Martin had first played tennis when she was II years old.
She later picked up some experience by playing at church camp and in a women's tennis league, but wasn't permitted to play for her high school team.
When she enrolled at Indiana State Teachers College as a music major, though, coach Jim McKinley invited her to try out for his team. The result: playing at least 30 singles and 25 doubles matches.
Academically, Martin compiled the highest grade point average in her graduating class in music education, then completed a master's degree in music at Penn State in 1959 and a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1966.
Since 1971, she has maintained a private practice in psychology in Canton, Ohio. Prior work included teaching at Robert Morris, Pitt Greensburg and Mount Union College.
She has maintained her interest in music, as the principal euphonium player for the Kent State University Stark County Campus Concert Band since 1987 and the Medina (Ohio) Community Band, singing with the Canton Symphony Chorus, and returning each year to Heidelberg College to play violin in "The Messiah."
Married to Dr. Richard Haude since 1962, she has two sons, Daniel and Steven, and a daughter, Karen, all tennis players. She and Daniel, a Cleveland attorney who was a full-scholarship player at Youngstown State four years, played as a mother-son doubles team representing four states at the 1987 Equitable Family Tennis Challenge.
Karen who played varsity basketball and tennis before graduating from Heidelberg, is a physician assistant in Albany, Georgia. Steven is a psychology student at the University of Akron.