EAST GREENSBORO – As part of the year-long commemoration of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's (MEAC) 50th Anniversary, the conference concluded the International Women's Month Celebration by honoring 27 individuals and one team as Pioneers in Women's Sports, Presented by Academy Sports+Outdoors. 

The list includes sports coaches, athletics administrators, student-athletes, one team, one game official and a current NASCAR crew member. 

The individuals and team being honored were trailblazers and groundbreakers. Administrators and staff of MEAC member institutions, MEAC office staff members, and the MEAC 50th Anniversary Committee nominated the recipients. The conference's Senior Woman Administrators voted for the nominees. 

North Carolina A&T had two pioneers included on the list in former women's basketball coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs and former athletics director Delores "Dee" Todd. 

Bibbs split her time in the MEAC between Hampton University and A&T. She combined to win more than 400 games at the schools. During her stint in the MEAC, she captured five regular-season championships and four MEAC tournament titles.

In 2010, she led the Aggies to two postseason wins in the WNIT as the Aggies became the first and only HBCU team in NCAA Division I history to win two postseason games in a national postseason tournament with wins over Wake Forest and Charlotte. Bibbs spent seven seasons at A&T. 

Todd became the first African-American female to become athletics director at A&T when she took the position in 2005. She was instrumental in implementing a world-class track and field facility at A&T. It resulted in A&T becoming the first HBCU to host an NCAA Division I regional championship on its campus in 2006. 

She also made history by becoming the first female member of the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.