Covington Independent Public Schools Board of Education voted last week to name the district’s new softball field after two pioneering coaches from Holmes whose efforts and advocacy helped establish organized girls’ sports programs in Northern Kentucky: Donna Wolfe and B. Joan Mitchell.
“My kids would have died to have the field facility that they’ve got now for girls’ softball,” Wolfe told LINK nky. “That’s awesome; I’m tickled pink.”
Wolfe was a student and eventual co-coach of Mitchell’s, who died in 2019. Mitchell was highly regarded as both an advocate and coach in her lifetime. In 2004, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association granted her a “Legend in Her Own Time” honor, and she was inducted into numerous sports halls of fame throughout the region and commonwealth, including the Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame and the Kentucky High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Wolfe would also earn numerous accolades, both for her work as a coach and for her own athletic accomplishments…