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Montgomery, Jim_HOF

Dr. Jim Montgomery

  • Class
    1960
  • Induction
    1992
  • Sport(s)
    Football, Basketball, Baseball, Tennis
  • Coached Tennis for 33 years, Men's Basketball from 1959-74, Football for three years, Baseball from 1962-63, and one year of Track 
  • Served as the Director of Athletics and the Director of Intramural Athletics from 1960-82
  • Coached 22 All-American athletes, and one of his tennis players was the first woman to every play in the NCAA National Tennis Tournament 
  • Selected in 1984 as the NCAA Division III Tennis Male Coach of the Year 
  • Received the Mississippi Tennis Association's Junior Development Award for his work promoting tennis to young adults in the state of Mississippi 
  • The tennis facilities at Millsaps are named in his honor, The Coach Montgomery Tennis Courts 
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