(1920 - )
Roseau

Paula Bauck, the former coordinator of girl's sports in the Moorhead School District, was a pioneer of girl's athletics in Minnesota. She helped write the regulations adopted by the Minnesota State High School League that laid the foundation for girl's athletics at the high school level and chaired Minnesota's first task force on the certification of coaches for girl's teams.

She was a charter member of the Minnesota State Coaches Association for Girls Sports. Bauck coached three state championship teams in girls' track and field and had the top-ranked 880 Medley Relay Team in the nation in 1975.

She was Coach of the Year in Minnesota three times and received an Award of Merit from Sports Illustrated for her work with girl's athletics. Bauck's success as a coach put her among the inaugural class of coaches inducted into the Minnesota State High School League Hall of Fame in 1991.

In 1998, she was given the "Marie Berg Award" for making a difference in the lives girls and women in sport. In 1999, Bauck was the first inductee into the MN Girls Track & Field Coaches Association Hall of Fame and was honored as a pioneer in Girls Basketball at the State Tournament.

In 2000, the Grand Forks Herald selected Bauck as one of "Twenty Coaches, Managers, and Organizers for the 20th Century" who made a difference for sports in the region.

Bauck is a graduate of Bemidji State University where she has been inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame and given the Outstanding Alumna Award in 1983.