INDIANAPOLIS — Former Wawasee High School girl’s track head coach Marcia Carpenter will be inducted to the Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame.

Carpenter’s nomination was announced in May and now further information about the ceremony has been made available.

The IATCCC Hall of Fame Induction Banquet is on Friday, January 29, 2016. The banquet is at the Sheraton Hotel at Keystone at the Crossing in Indianapolis at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $55 and available online now and should be reserved by Friday, January 15, 2016.

The banquet begins with a meal followed by the induction ceremony. The ceremony will begin around 8:00 pm and should last around two hours. There is also a reception in Marcia’s honor at the IATCCC Hall of Fame and Museum in Terre Haute on Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 11:00 am.

Please RSVP for this event to Marshall Goss at [email protected] by January 15 as well.

Carpenter started the girls track program at Wawasee High School and coached the first teams to great success. She was a pioneer in the Girls Athletic Association (GAA) which helped to organize girls sports before they were organized by the IHSAA.

She coached Wawasee’s first track state champion Lorene Spearman, who won multiple state championships in the 100 and 220 yard dashes as well as setting multiple state meet records and the national high school record in the 220 yard dash. Carpenter coached the Warriors to a state title and state record in the 440 yard relay. In 1976, Carpenter’s team won the team state track championship and it remains the only team state title in Wawasee history.

Carpenter was also a coach of the highly successful Wawasee gymnastics program that produced multiple state champion athletes, part of the winningest stretch of gymnastics in that program’s history.