Former Belmont women's coach Betty Wiseman on basketball as ministry

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Betty Wiseman has been a part of Belmont University’s athletic program for five decades. She graduated from Belmont (Nashville, Tennessee) in 1965 and helped start the women’s basketball program, one of the first female teams not only in the state but in the Southeast region. As head coach, Wieseman compiled a 248-152 record in her 16 seasons. In 1981, she was inducted into the Belmont Athletics Hall of Fame, and in 2004 she was inducted into the Tennessee Hall of Fame. Known as “Belmont Betty…