Tina Sloan Green

Tina Sloan Green (born April 27, 1944) is a former women's lacrosse head coach of the Temple Owls from 1975 to 1992.

Apart from coaching, she was the first African American to play for the United States women's national field hockey team from 1969 to 1973.

Green was designated as gifted and talented before ninth grade and selected to be one of twenty young African American women Philadelphia High School for Girls.

While at Philadelphia High School for Girls as a student, Sloan Green was on multiple sports teams due to Coach Jane Weitzenhoffer discovering her abilities and recruiting her to play basketball, volleyball, and field hockey.

She also became cheerleader squad coach, a physical education teacher and started a lacrosse team.

Sloan Green also served as director of Temple University's National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) for over a decade.

[5] After winning the 1984 national championships, Sloan Green did not receive the coach of the year award, which decision was probably affected by her race.

She took over the Crimson program in 2007, and led Harvard to a 13–8 overall mark and a 6-1 Frankie Green played tennis at Florida A&M University.

[5] Sloan Green was inducted into Temple and West Chester University's hall of fame and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators.