Hall of Fame
Peggy Allen McCoy lettered in basketball four years and is the Pioneers' all-time scoring leader with 1,783 points. She also holds five school records - best field goal percentage in a season (.604), most blocked shots in a season (56), most points in a game (42), best field goal percentage in a game with a minimum of six field goals made (1.000, 8/8), and most blocked shots in a game (9). Her senior year, the 6-2 post was honored as the Lone Star Conference Preseason Player of the Year, and then earned the LSC Defensive Player of the Year award. Allen McCoy was twice a 1st Team All-Conference unanimous selection. In 1989-90, when TWU finished runner-up in the conference tournament to West Texas State, she was voted to the all-tournament team. She was also tapped conference Player of the Week twice in her last two seasons.
Allen McCoy received many prestigious awards throughout her career. She was named to the Kodak Women's All-District Basketball Team in 1990, and was a Kodak All-America Honorable Mention in 1991. She was one of seven finalists in Div. II for the 1991 Champion USA/WBCA Player of the Year, an award given annually to the player selected as the best in her division by members of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
The Pioneer cager married Stacy McCoy in March 1990, then finished her collegiate basketball career at TWU in 1991. She returned in 1993 and graduated with a B.S. in Child Development. The McCoys lived in Maryland at Fort Detrick Army Base from 1991-95. In 1994-95, she played basketball in the Washington Area Military Athletic Conference. In 1995, the McCoys moved back to the DFW area after Stacy finished his Army tour. Peggy teaches at Lake Worth High School where she is the head coach for track and JV basketball. In May of this year, she was extended an invitation to try out for the Los Angeles Sparks and the Cleveland Rockers of the WNBA. She resides in Fort Worth with her husband and two stepchildren, Deon, 10, and Cherika, 8.
