Theresa Altaneze MANUEL

Theresa Manuel played basketball at Middleton High School, in Tampa, and then led Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to four straight conference track championships. She was the AAU indoor champion in the 50 metre hurdles in 1948. After college graduation she coached at Middleton and then Hillsborough High School, and in 1976 was voted Florida Basketball Coach of the Year. The largest Tampa area track meet was named for her, the Manuel-Griffin Relays, and in 1994, she became the first African-American female to be inducted into the Tampa Sports Hall of Fame. In 2004, the track at her old high school was named in her honor, the Theresa A. Manuel Track and Field.

Personal Bests: 100 – unknown; 80H – unknown; JT – unknown.