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Peggy Gay Moore
Class of 1979

Induction Class of 2011
Women's Basketball
Peggy Gay started for four seasons (1975-79) for coach Shirley Duncan’s EKU women’s basketball team and finished her career as the second leading scorer in Lady Colonel history with 1,696 points. Gay still holds single season school records for most fields made (235, 1978-79) and most field goals attempted (569, 1978-79). She came to Eastern from Buckhorn High School where she was a first-team Lexington Herald and second-team Courier Journal All-State selection where she not only played basketball but also played baseball for two seasons. In her very first game for EKU vs. Western Kentucky in 1975, she scored 16 points to help Eastern beat WKU, 73-59. That first season for Gay was one of the best in school history for the women’s basketball program as Eastern beat Cincinnati, Indiana, Dayton, Louisville twice, Kentucky twice, Western twice, North Carolina State and Marshall en route to a sparkling 17-3 record and the Kentucky Women’s Intercollegiate Conference title and runner-up spot in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Region II tournament while averaging 16.0 points per game. While EKU was winning its fifth straight state title, Gay was an All-Bellarmine Invitational choice in 1975-76. She followed that season up with scoring averages of 13.9, 19.7 and 17.6 points for her next three years at Eastern and became the school’s first 1,000-point scorer during her junior campaign. As a junior, she scored 38 points in Eastern’s 75-72 win over Louisville and was an All-KWIC pick that season. Another highlight for Gay came in the opener of her senior year against No. 1 ranked Tennessee when she scored 26 points, prompting Lady Vol coach Pat Head Summitt to say, “That Peggy Gay is a super player, one of the best I’ve seen.” Following graduation in 1979 after being named first-team All-Ohio Valley Conference, Gay was drafted by the Philadelphia Fox of the Women’s Basketball League and played one season for that pro team. After receiving her master’s degree in elementary education in 1984, she served one season as an assistant coach at Morehead State. She then taught at Buckhorn High School for seven years and the past 18 years at Breathitt County High School where she also coached the Lady Cats for the past eight years, compiling a 148-92 record and winning four Region 14 titles, advancing to the second round of the state tournament in 2007-08 when Breathitt County was 27-5. Having retired from the coaching role this past summer, Gay continues to teach at Breathitt County High School. An avid gardener, she and her husband, Leon, have two sons, Kyle and Kevin.