Gilreath, Kathryn

May 9, 2022

KATHRYN GILREATH helped Cooper High School to a 3-year record of 57-0 and three consecutive 5A team tennis state championships. She played No.1 singles all four years. In the spring of 1993, she was a state quarterfinalist in doubles, a state semifinalist in doubles in 1994 and a state finalist in doubles in 1995 and 1996. Gilreath was individually ranked in the top 10 in Texas and the top 100 nationally as a junior tennis player by the U.S. Tennis Association. At Texas A&M, Gilreath was a 4-year letterman and won a Big 12 championship at No. 5 singles in 1998. She became the tennis coach at Wylie in 2002 and led the Bulldogs to 10 Texas Tennis Coaches Association state team titles. She and her mother, former Cooper tennis coach Leanne Scott, are the first mother-daughter combination to be inducted into the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame.