Hall of Fame
Dr. Kathy M. Smith Phelan ’90
Physician
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Smith was a four-year letterwinner in basketball and the Most Valuable Player of the Iowa Conference in 1990. She also earned All-IIAC honors in 1988. She was the Knights’ MVP in both 1988 and 1990. She was an honorable mention All-American in 1990, the same year she led the Knights to their first Iowa Conference championship in women’s basketball. She still holds school records for best field goal percentage in a season, 57.0, and for a career, 54.5. She ranks fourth among all scorers in Wartburg women’s basketball with 1,360 points. She earned a medical degree at the University of Iowa and completed her residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin Family Practice in Waukesha. She has been employed at the National Indian Health Service in Alaska and was a Locum Tenum Physician in Nashua, N.H., before returning to the Waukesha Health Care Family Practice in Hartland, Wisconsin. She also has had mission experiences in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Guatemala.
