Minnesota State University Moorhead |
Women's Basketball, Field Hockey, Women's Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field
1974-1978
Donnay played a sizable role in the development of women's athletics at Minnesota State University Moorhead. A native of Glencoe, Minn. and a 1978 graduate of MSUM, she won 11 athletic letters during her tenure with the Dragons. She achieved athletic letters in basketball (4), field hockey (4), and track and field (3). She was named to the All-Minn-Kota Conference field hockey team as a sophomore and junior. Donnay ranks third on the Dragon career basketball chart for field goal attempts (1,112) and rebounds (778), and still holds the MSUM single game mark for field goal attempts (36). As team captain during her senior campaign, she led the Dragons to an AIAW Region 6 tournament appearance posting a 23-8 record. She set the school shot put record of 41'-6 ¾" while winning three Minn-Kota indoor shot put crowns and two outdoor titles. As a frosh in 1974-1975, she was the Minnesota AIAW shot put champion and qualified for the National AIAW Championships. Donnay was saluted as MSUM's Outstanding Senior-Athlete in 1977-1978 receiving the Flora Frick Award and was inducted into the Dragon Hall of Fame in 1989.She has spent the last 22 years as a active physical education teacher and coach in the Fargo, N.D. public schools, earning the following awards: 1982 Associated Press Female High School Coach of the Year, 1992 North Dakota Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year in 1992, and the 1999 North Dakota Pathfinder Award for promotion of girls and women in sports.