40 years of Title IX: Sun Devil champions
Amy LePeilbet played for the ASU women’s soccer team from 2000-2003, where she was a three-time First-Team All-Pac-10 selection. She was a member of the USA's 2011 World Cup Team and played for the United States in the 2012 London Olympic games, where she won a gold medal. LePeilbet earned her bachelor’s in sociology from ASU in 2004, graduating Magna Cum Laude.
Kaitlin Cochran was an outfielder for the ASU’s softball team from 2006-2009. During her college career she was named First-Team All-America accolades, Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year and played in the 2008 National Championship team. Post-college, Cochran was drafted No. 1 overall in the 2009 NPF Draft by Washington. She also won the World Cup of Softball with the United States women's national softball team in 2011.
Amy Hastings was a Sun Devil cross-country athlete from 2003-2005. She was the first Sun Devil, male or female, to win a Pac-10 Cross Country Championship in 2004 and the second woman to earn Pac-10 Athlete of the Year honors. Hastings is the 2012 American champion in the 10,000 meters and was a qualifier for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Jaquelyn Johnson was an ASU track and field athlete from 2004-2007. She has won five NCAA titles and earned six All-America honors. Her indoor success earned her a placement on the NCAA Division I Silver Anniversary Team (pentathlon) and she earned national recognition as the 2006 USTFCCCA Women's Co-National Field Athlete of the Year as well as its West District Field Athlete of the Year
Linda Wells was a five sport athlete: softball, volleyball, basketball, tennis and field hockey at Southeast Missouri State University. She started her coaching career in Minnesota where she coached three sports to national recognition: softball, volleyball and basketball. She then came to ASU and coached the softball team for 15 years. She retired with 914 career wins that places her 18th all-time in NCAA history. Wells also was the head coach for two Olympic teams: Greek (2004) and the Netherlands (2008). Coach Wells is a part of the NSCA Hall of Fame, the University of Minnesota Hall of Fame, and State of Minnesota Hall of Fame.
From the beginning of Arizona State softball in 1967 through 1989, the founder and leader was head coach Mary Littlewood. Littlewood is also considered the founder of the majority of ASU women's sports since she taught physical education at the school, as well as coached basketball and volleyball before concentrating on softball. Under her tutelage, ASU won two national championships (1972 and 1973) and advanced to the Women's College World Series nine times.
Addison McGrath played water polo for ASU from 2006-2008. As a junior, she became the first ASU player ever to be named a First-Team All-American. Also a member of the ASU track and field team, McGrath regionally qualified in the javelin on her first competitive throw and scored at the Pac-10 Championships by placing eighth at 153-05 (46.77m), a toss that ranks as the second-best in school history.
Pattie Snyder Park coached ASU women's volleyball for 14 seasons, before retiring in 2002. She was twice named Pac-10 Coach of the Year and led her team to six NCAA tournament appearances. Before coming to ASU, she had a great volleyball and softball career at University of Portland, played professional volleyball and was the assistant at University of California. Today, she is a real estate agent in the Valley.
Sarah Stevens was a member of ASU’s track and field team from 2006-2008 in throwing events. She has twice been named the USTFCCCA Scholar-Athlete of the Year, has won two national titles and holds the school record for outdoor shot put. She graduate from ASU in May 2008 with a bachelor’s in kinesiology and is working toward her master’s of education in elementary education.
Tammy Webb-Leibl played for Arizona State volleyball from 1983-1986 under head coach Debbie Brown. In 1996 she was inducted into the Sun Devil Hall of Fame. She was the Pac-10 Player of the Decade for the 1980s, a member of three Sun Devil squads that played in the NCAA Tournament and played at the 1985 World University Games in Kobe, Japan. She graduated in December of 2011 with a degree in liberal studies.
Rowie Webster played for the Sun Devil water polo team in 2006 before pursuing her professional career. As a freshman at ASU, Webster was selected as a third-team All-American by the American Water Polo Coaches Association. She was also named to the MPSF All-Freshmen Team, the All-MPSF Second Team and the MPSF All-Tournament team. Webster represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.