Margaret “Peggy” Dailer

(Class of 1960)

Peggy Dailer, nearing three decades as head coach of the boys and girls tennis teams at Wheeling Central Catholic High School, has directed the Maroon Knights to numerous championships and entered the 2018 season with an overall match record of 300 wins against just 85 losses.  Her boys’ tennis squads have won five Ohio Valley Athletic Conference titles (1983, 2008, 2009, 2013 and 2014).  Individually, the boys  and girls teams brought home several OVAC, regional and state championships. In girls’ tennis, her players won an overall West Virginia state title in 2005. Both squads also captured numerous WV Region One crowns. Peggy was honored to be selected as the West Virginia State Tennis Coach of the year in both 2014 and 2017.

 The mother of 2016 Central Catholic Hall of Fame inductee Suzie Dailer, Peggy began her tennis coaching career as an an assistant coach of the girls’ team that collected back-to-back OVAC championships in 1991-92. In the 1991 season, the Lady Maroon Knights finished as the runners-up in the state finals.

  As a student at St. Joseph’s Academy, Peggy was a CCHS cheerleader for two years.

  Dailer’s contributions to the athletic and fund-raising programs also have been valuable to Central Catholic. She is a long time member of the Boosters Association and served on the reverse raffle committee during that span. She is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph Auxiliary and also has been the Director of the Warwood Lions Club tennis tournament for 25 years.  Her other community contributions include:  United Way Day of Caring volunteer; Sisters of St. Joseph Service Day volunteer; Corpus Christi Parish Ladies Guild; Corpus Christi  Parish Financial Council; Corpus Christi Hospitality and Eucharistic Minister; Grow Warwood Pride member; Ohio Valley Basketball Classic Tournament committee; OVAC  Tennis Tournament Planning and Rules Committees and a former member of the United States Tennis Association.