Charlene E. Agne-Traub, ’67, was a member of five sports teams at Concordia: field hockey, basketball, softball (four years), badminton (three years) and volleyball (two years). She was an active member of the WAA for four years. Agne-Traub was selected to the Northern Illinois Area All-Star field hockey team in 1965.
After Concordia, Agne-Traub coached for St. John’s Lutheran College and Winfield College from 1967 to 1976. She coached basketball, softball, volleyball, track, badminton, field hockey and tennis. She also taught physical education while working on her doctorate at Texas Women’s University.
Agne-Traub’s most profound post-college contributions to athleticism are in bowling, in which she has authored a book. She also has competed in the open division of the WIBC national tournaments in St. Louis in 1982, Lansing, Michigan in 1992, and Reno, Nevada in 1997. Her doubles team placed ninth in St. Louis and 50th in Lansing with an average score of 189. More recently, she taught bowling at Howard University in Washington D.C. She also has published multiple works in health, physical education and leisure studies as well as a book on the history of volkssporting in the United States.
Agne-Traub went on to achieve her master’s from the University of Northern Colorado and her doctorate from Texas Women’s University.
