RMAC Hall of Fame

Carol "Peppy" Seale

Carol "Peppy" Seale is best known for her role as the pioneer for women's athletics at Fort Lewis College.  Seale was a coach and an associate professor of Exercise Science for 26 years (1976-2002). As much as she is known for her pioneering role in women's athletics, Seale earned an equal amount of respect through coaching. During her tenure at Fort Lewis, Seale coached basketball (1970-74), skiing (1969-75), softball (1984), tennis (1970-74, 1985-87), and volleyball (1969-85). Despite coaching such a wide variety of sports, Seale is most often thought of as a volleyball coach. During her 17 years at the helm of Fort Lewis College's volleyball program (she did not coach the team in 1975 and 1979 because of maternity leaves), the then Raiders posted winning records 14 times and earned numerous conference and regional titles. She retired from coaching volleyball in 1985 after posting 141 victories against four-years - - a record that stood until her niece, Marcy Jung, surpassed it in 1991. Seale retired from Fort Lewis College in May 2002 and died after a battle with cancer in May 2004.