BOSTON, Mass. – Perhaps the greatest female coach in UMass Boston athletics history, former head volleyball coach and Senior Associate AD Terry Condon, is one of the most influential figures of the Title IX era. As part of the 50-year anniversary of Title IX, Beacons Athletics will be honoring its history by highlighting some of the most influential administrators, coaches, and moments in the department's history.
The American Coaches Volleyball Association (AVCA) Hall of Famer helped to transform UMass Boston athletics and the volleyball program during her decade plus of service. Regarded as one of the best volleyball players in US Volleyball and UCLA history, Condon is a legend at all levels of college athletics.
Throughout the 1970s, Condon was a U.S. Indoor National team member and the 1971 Player of the Year. In addition, she earned three USA Open National Championships and was a five-time member of the USA Women's National team, playing at the 1970 World Championships and 1971 and 1975 Pan American Games.
Following her playing career, Condon has served the roles of both administrator and coach at the collegiate level. From 1986-1994, she was a UCLA Associate Athletic Director and later was a Senior Associate Athletic Director at Northeastern University in Boston.
As a collegiate head coach, Condon has made stops at Cal State Bakersfield and Texas A&M. In 2012-13, she enters her seventh season as the women's volleyball head coach at UMass Boston, where she is also a Senior Associate Athletic Director. During her time on the harbor campus, Condon led the Beacons to the program's first-ever Little East Conference Regular Season and Tournament Championship. The program's first of three trips to the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament (2010, 2012, 2013), UMB's first-ever AVCA First Team All-American in Shannon Thompson '13.
Condon was selected as an All-Time Great Female Player by the U.S. Volleyball Association in 1983, and in 1992, she was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame. She was named one of the 25 greatest players in the history of UCLA Women's Volleyball, and her No. 34 uniform number is retired. Condon is also a member of the Little East Conference and UMass Boston Athletics Hall of Fame.
