Missouri State

KATHY SCHUBERT DANIELS
Field Hockey, 1977-80
Inducted February 16, 2008

Kathy Schubert was an integral part of what was the greatest era in the history of Missouri State field hockey. Playing for coach Rhonda Ridinger, Schubert was a part of Bears' teams which won three Missouri Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) titles, two firsts and two seconds in AIAW regional competition and an AIAW national title in 1979. The Bears were AIAW runners-up in 1980. The teams on which Schubert played compiled an eye-popping 108-12-4 record for her seasons at MSU. The Bears were 23-4-1 and 28-2 in Schubert's first two seasons and finished as regional runners-up both years. The 28-2-1 1979 Missouri State team rolled to conference and AIAW regional titles, and, in the national tourney in Princeton, N.J., Missouri State rolled past C.W. Post, Bemidji State, Lehigh and Colgate to bring the national title to a school west of the Mississippi River for the first time ever. Schubert scored two of the team's three goals in the quarterfinal win against Bemidji State. The Bears that season recorded 23 shutouts and outscored their opposition 125-10 for the season. The 1980 team reached the national tourney in Edwardsville, Ill., and logged consecutive shutouts in the first three rounds as the Bears blanked tourney host SIU-Edwardsville, Davidson and Ithaca before dropping a 3-2 match to LaSalle in the title game. Schubert was the team's leading scorer for the 1980 season, including collecting the Bears' only goal in the 1-0 AIAW semifinal win over Ithaca. She scored both Missouri State goals in the championship game loss to LaSalle, her 31st and 32nd goals of the 1980 campaign. She was named to the Missouri AIAW all-state team for the season. Playing in the same era as all-time scoring leader Chris Dufner, Schubert still has the second highest scoring total in MSU history with her 64 goals as a Bear.