One of West Chester University’s most successful track & field athletes, Betty Costanza was nationally ranked in the pentathlon and competed in both AAU National Pentathlon Championships and the 1964 U.S. Olympic Trials. Following her personal competition in the sport, Costanza started the University of Pennsylvania track & field program from scratch in 1976, serving as the Quakers’ head coach until her retirement in 2002. During her coaching tenure, Costanza coached Penn to 10 Big Five championships, and a number of her athletes saw personal success on the track, including Jan PhengLaOr, who became Penn’s first Olympian, and Chris Lundy, who was the Quakers’ first three-time distance All-American in 1992. Outside of her coaching, Costanza chaired both the Heptagonal Games Association and the NCAA Division I Track & Field Coaches Association. She also authored a book, titled Women’s Track and Field. Costanza was inducted in to the University of Pennsylvania Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008.