Digitized files are available in the Library Workgroup Drive in folder: Archives Archives_Katie Carroll-LaHaye-2020-Donation_Scans.
Gift of Carroll LaHaye, April 2020
Collection is open for research; appointments to view materials can be scheduled via the appointment request form on the Special Collections and Archives webpage of the library website https://library.rmc.edu/specialcollections
A native of Warren, Maine, Carroll LaHaye earned her bachelor's degree in Business Management Recreation at the University of Maine-Machias in 1977, where she was both a dedicated student and top volleyball and basketball player. LaHaye moved to Virginia after graduation and began a job with Hanover Parks and Recreation, where she helped design county playgrounds.
In 1980, LaHaye began volunteering as assistant women's basketball coach at Randolph-Macon College. A year later, LaHaye was officially named head coach of the women's lacrosse and soccer teams and became the head coach for women's basketball in 1982. Throughout her career at R-MC, she worked adamantly to champion gender equality and bring the women's athletics department to where it is today.
LaHaye served 38 seasons as head women's basketball coach, a role she was as successful as she was beloved by R-MC players and community alike. In 2018, LaHaye coached her 600th NCAA career victory at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament. She currently holds the record for most wins by a basketball coach in the ODAC across both men's and women's teams.
LaHaye has been named ODAC Coach of the Year four times and State Coach of the Year five times by the Virginia Sports Information Directors. In recognition of her dedication as faculty to the college, she received the Samuel Nelson Gray Distinguished Professor Award in 2005. In 2010, LaHaye was inducted into the Mid-Coast Hall of Fame and into the UMM Hall of Fame in 2012.
LaHaye mentored several finalists for the Jostens Trophy and two National Players of the Year: Megan Silva in 2006 and Molly Ariail in 2010. Silva became the first R-MC student-athlete to win the Jostens Trophy award and was recognized as the Division III Honda-Broderick Athlete of the Year for the 2005-06 academic year.
The Carroll LaHaye Collection primarily contains photographs, professional awards, memorabilia, and other materials documenting Carroll LaHaye's coaching career of women's basketball at Randolph-Macon College from the 1980s to 2020. The bulk of materials relate to the 1996 and 2005 basketball championship seasons. A few materials in the collection relate to LaHaye's coaching of women's lacrosse at R-MC, including a lacrosse ball signed by the 1982 team that played in the 1982 AIAW National Women's Lacrosse Tournament.
This collection is arranged into seven series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Professional Materials; 3. Printed Materials; 4. Photographs; 5. Memorabilia; 6. Scrapbooks; 7. Oversize.
Series 1: Correspondence Two undated cards addressed to Carroll LaHaye.
Series 2: Professional Materials, bulk 1996 – 2005 Documents and papers contain holograph notes. A piece of the basketball net from the 2005 ODAC Championship is taped on a printed announcement.
Series 3: Printed Materials, bulk 1996 - 2005 Documents and papers contain holograph notes.
Series 4: Photographs Photographic prints and glass slides depicting Carroll LaHaye and women's basketball players. There is one black/white photograph of the 1982 women's lacrosse team.
Series 5: Memorabilia Plaques, awards, textiles, and miscellaneous materials. Contains the basketball net from the 2005 ODAC Division III Championship. Textiles are separate in Box 3, which includes a commemorative shirt from the college bookstore for the 1996 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship, signed by the R-MC women's basketball team.
Series 6: Scrapbooks Scrapbooks have been scanned in original order and have had their pages taken out of plastic binders.
Series 7: Oversize Flyers, posters, and professional awards related to LaHaye's basketball coaching seasons; includes some artwork/photo collages given to LaHaye by R-MC women's basketball team members. A large, battery-powered clock with pictures of women's basketball team members for each hour, possibly with a recorded message, is located loose with the collection boxes for LaHaye.
See also Photobox All Sports and Photobox Basketball in the vault Media-Photo aisle; aisle also has loose 2011 ODAC Women's Basketball photograph signed, matted. See also Black Oversize.
[item identification] Collection Name, Flavia Reed Owen Special Collections and Archives, McGraw-Page Library, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
Two undated cards addressed to Carroll LaHaye.
Documents and papers contain holograph notes. A piece of the basketball net from the 2005 ODAC Championship is taped on a printed announcement.
Documents and papers contain holograph notes.
Photographic prints and glass slides depicting Carroll LaHaye and women's basketball players. There is one black/white photograph of the 1982 women's lacrosse team.
Plaques, awards, textiles, and miscellaneous materials. Contains the basketball net from the 2005 ODAC Division III Championship. Textiles are separate in Box 3, which includes a commemorative shirt from the college bookstore for the 1996 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship, signed by the R-MC women's basketball team.
Scrapbooks have been scanned in original order and have had their pages taken out of plastic binders.
Flyers, posters, and professional awards related to LaHaye's basketball coaching seasons; includes some artwork/photo collages given to LaHaye by R-MC women's basketball team members. A large, battery-powered clock with pictures of women's basketball team members for each hour, possibly with a recorded message, is located loose with the collection boxes for LaHaye.