Coach Tory Plunkett: Leaving it Better for the Next

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Tory Plunkett arrived at Texas State for her first head coaching job with a $700 recruiting budget, no assistant coach, and the goal to turn around a program to be what it was built to be.

And as her coaching career at Texas State comes to a close after nearly 20 years when she retires after the season, she can only look back and see a path blazed with many stories along the way.

But her college tennis story does not start at Texas State. After helping Northwestern State win a Gulf Star Conference championship in 1986, Plunkett went on to play at TCU from 1986 to 1989. With the Horned Frogs, she didn’t just play, she dominated. In her two years in Fort Worth,…