Hall of Fame
Joy Motter Weikert has won more career tennis matches than any other player in the history of Shippensburg University, having triumphed 136 times spanning singles and doubles from 1989-93. She set the school record for the most single-season singles victories from dual meets as a freshman, winning 16 times in 1989-90.
To cap her SU career, Weikert was named the 1993 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Year. She won three PSAC Championships: No. 1 doubles and No. 3 singles in 1992, and No. 4 singles in 1990. Additionally, Weikert was a four-time PSAC runner-up: No. 3 doubles and No. 6 singles in 1989, No. 1 doubles and No. 2 singles in 1991.
In the fall of her senior season, Weikert went a combined 32-0 in singles and doubles matches. She posted 37 combined wins as a freshman, 31 as a sophomore, 33 as a junior, and finished with 35 as a senior. Weikert remains tied for the single-season school record for dual-meet singles wins that she set in 1990.
In the classroom, Weikert was named to the prestigious GTE Academic All-America At-Large Second Team as a senior in 1993. She graduated with a 3.83 cumulative grade-point average with a degree in mathematics/secondary education. She also graduated as a two-time International Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete: receiving honors as a junior in 1992 and a senior in 1993.
Weikert, along with her twin sister Jill, helped form one of the most dominant tennis teams in the East Region during the early 1990s. The doubles pairing competed in three consecutive NCAA Division II National Championships from 1991-93 – winning their first-round match in 1992. The doubles pairing is tied for the school record with 18 consecutive wins in doubles, set in 1992-93.
The Raiders, under coaches Stan Line and Bill Wissinger, were ranked number one in the East and competed in the NCAA Division II National Championships in 1990 and 1991. The 1990 SU Tennis team was the first team from the East to ever score a point at the national championships. In 1992, the Raiders upset No. 1 seed California (Pa.) by 13 points to capture their third PSAC championship. SU swept the doubles competition and won four of the six singles flights.
For the last 22 years, Weikert has worked in the Conewago Valley School District as a seventh and eighth grade mathematics teacher at New Oxford Middle School. Her excellence as an educator has resulted in numerous teaching awards, including honors as the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce Educator of the Year, a Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Educator Award, the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees Lauretta Woodson Award, the Keystone Technology Innovator Award, and the Conewago Valley School District Pioneers in Educational Excellence Award. Weikert has served as a cooperating teacher for five student teachers and has been a member of several school committees, including student council. Prior to her appointment in the Conewago Valley School District, Weikert spent six years as a junior high mathematics teacher and volunteer girls tennis coach in the Chambersburg Area School District.
Outside of work, Weikert serves on the management team of Special Olympics Pennsylvania Adams County as a Public Relations Co-Coordinator along with her sister, Jill. Weikert and her sister are assistant tennis coaches for the Adams County program. She also volunteers with event planning for the Bendersville Fire Company. Previously, Weikert served as the treasurer for her children’s elementary school PTA and was a volunteer coach for youth soccer, basketball and softball teams.
Weikert has been married for 28 years to her husband Brian, a 1992 graduate of Shippensburg University. The couple have two grown children: daughter, Mandy, and son, Tyler.
