Full name | Katherine Gordon Harrison |
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Residence | Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
Born | 1934 (age 89–90) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
College | Texas (BA, MA) |
Coaching career | |
North Carolina (1976–1998) |
Katherine Gordon Harrison (born 1934) is an American former college tennis coach who was the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels women's tennis team from 1976 to 1998. She attended the University of Texas at Austin at a time when the school did not field a women's team. She studied classics as a postgraduate at Texas and North Carolina before becoming a professional tennis instructor. She was the all-time winningest Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) women's tennis coach at the time of her retirement.