RUSTON – Mary Kay Hungate has certainly made her mark on Louisiana Tech over the years.
 
The Associate Vice President and Deputy Athletics Director does a lot.  And then some.  And then some more.
 
A mainstay in the LA Tech Athletics Department, she also serves as Chief Operating Officer, Senior Woman Administrator, head of the compliance department, sport administrator for numerous athletic programs, and overseer of Student-Athlete Success Services. 

Before all this, she was an assistant coach for the Lady Techsters Basketball program for five years.  During that time, they participated in four Final Fours and won the NCAA National Championship in 1988.
 
Before that, she was the head coach at Richwoods High School in Peoria, Illinois where she compiled one of the top prep coaching records in the country.
 
Hungate knows a thing or two about Hall of Fames.  She is a two-time Hall of Famer herself, having been inducted into the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame and the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) Hall of Fame.
 
And coming up on March 23, her fourth Richwoods High School girls basketball team will be inducted into the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame, as voted on by the GPSHOF board.
 
Going into the Hall of Fame this time is the 1980-81 Richwoods girls basketball team that went 30-2 and took second place at state, falling in the title game to Elk Grove.  That team brought back Richwoods' first girls basketball state trophy.
 
The other Hall of Fame teams led by Hungate include the 1982-83 squad that went a perfect 24-0 during the regular season and then swept through the state tourney field for eight more wins and the first state basketball championship for a Peoria school.
 
Then there was the 1983-84 team that set the state record by extending the program's winning streak to 63 consecutive games before falling in the IHSA Class AA state championship game. That Lady Knights squad finished 31-1 and won their fourth consecutive conference championship. 
 
Another team was the 1984-85 Lady Knights who were ranked No. 1 in the nation by USA Today.  They completed a 32-1 season, finishing third at the state tournament.  Hungate, who was named USA Today National Coach of the Year, coached Nora Lewis which the two of them left for Ruston, Louisiana to join the Lady Techsters.
 
Lewis would go on to have her No. 40 Columbia blue jersey retired and become a member of the LA Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015. 
 
As for Hungate, if you could put wins and losses on being an administrator at LA Tech, it would be similar to the 195-13 record she compiled at Richwoods High School.