MIAMI SHORES, Fla. (October 4, 2025) - Former Rollins women's tennis head coach Beverly Buckley was inducted into the Sunshine State Conference Hall of Fame on Saturday. She was presented by Associate Vice President of Athletics
Pennie Parker.
Following her hall-of-fame- playing career at Rollins, Buckley eventually found her way back to Winter Park as head coach of the Tars beginning in 1986. For more than 35 years, she led the Tars as she transformed them into one of the top programs in all of Division II.Â
When she retired in 2024, Bev had recorded more than 530 wins, ranking her seventh all-time among D-II coaches. She saw decades of success, including an impressive twenty-year run of making the NCAA tournament from 1994-2014. She coached two individual national champions (Stacy Moss & Angie Zguna), as well as 22 All-Americans, six SSC Players of the Year, two SSC Freshmen of the Year, and 67 All-SSC selections.Â
A believer in academic achievement, Buckley's athletes were also standouts
in the classroom. In 2004, the Tars won the Team GPA award at the National
Championship Festival. Rollins was named an ITA All-Academic Team every
year from 2013 to 2024, and had 62 students named ITA Scholar Athletes.
She received the ultimate honor in collegiate tennis in 2020 when she was given the ITA Meritorious Service Award following her more than four decades of positive impact in college tennis.Â
