Linda Partlow
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- Year:
- 2009
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- Sport:
- Women's Tennis, Softball
Former Itawamba Community College tennis and softball coach Linda Partlow of Mobile, Ala. was inducted into the 2009 Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges Sports Hall of Fame at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson.
Partlow was ICC's inductee in the prestigious Hall of Fame, which recognizes outstanding athletes and coaches who have participated in intercollegiate sports or coached for at least five years at one of the 15 community/junior colleges in Mississippi.
Partlow was inducted into ICC's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007 after serving for 22 years as women's tennis coach.
She led ICC's Lady Indians to 10 NJCAA national tennis tournaments, with the highest finish being eighth. Her teams won nine state championships, five regional championships and five regional runner-up titles. Partlow was chosen coach of the year four times by the Mississippi Association of Colleges and was elected to the NJCAA Women's Tennis Hall of Fame in 2001.
When she started teaching mathematics at ICC in 1980, Partlow was offered the women's tennis coaching job. She coached softball for eight years simultaneously with tennis and taught 15 hours of mathematics every semester.
A native of Plantersville, Partlow was a standout tennis player at Tupelo High School and Mississippi University for Women.
After her retirement from coaching, she continued to teach mathematics, both full-time and adjunct status, for ICC.
