Annie Adamczak-Glavan had the opportunity not only to compete in three sports in high school, but to excel in all three, and after competing professionally abroad, she returned to her home state to make sure the next generation of high school girls have these same opportunities.

Adamczak-Glavan had a high school career that most athletes only dream of – one that hasn’t been forgotten 40 years later. After playing Little League baseball with the boys and watching her older sister win a state volleyball title with Moose Lake in 1975, Adamczak-Glavan started playing organized girls’ sports in high school – and she thrived.

She played volleyball, basketball, and softball at Moose Lake where she won five state titles. As a senior, she accomplished the unbelievable as she helped all three teams to undefeated seasons: a perfect 79-0 record from fall until spring. In her junior and senior years, she helped her three teams to 148-2 record with back-to-back state titles in volleyball and softball. A pitcher for the softball team, she finished her junior and senior seasons with an ERA of 0.00. She finished her four-year career 50-3 on the mound. She was named Minnesota’s Ms. Basketball as well as the Hertz Rent-a-Car #1 Minnesota Athlete of the Year.

After high school, Adamczak-Glavan received a full athletic scholarship to the University of Nebraska where she played volleyball – which wasn’t her main sport. She had been hoping to play collegiate basketball, but scholarships were hard to come by. Her coaches helped improve her approach as an outside hitter, taught her how to dive to the floor and the work paid off. She was a starter by the second month of her first season with the Huskers, and by the time she was a senior, she was named the Big 8 Player of the Year and a Division I All-American.

Adamczak-Glavan played professional volleyball for TSV Rudow in Germany for one year before returning home to play professionally for the Minnesota Monarchs in the team’s 1987 inaugural season. The next season, she started coaching and hosting her own volleyball camps, which proved to be an instant success. In 2008 she took over as the club director of the CLUB 43 Volleyball program in Hopkins, and she’s been there ever since. In 2016, Adamczak-Glavan was a nominee for the national JVA Coach of the Year, and in 2023 her CLUB 43 U16 team finished fifth at AAU Nationals in Orlando.

Adamczak-Glavan has received many awards and accolades for her athletic prowess: she is a member of the Minnesota High School Softball Hall of Fame, the Moose Lake High School Hall of Fame, the Minnesota State Basketball Hall of Fame and the Star Tribune Sports Hall of Fame. In 2020 the Duluth News Tribune named her the Best Athlete of All Time in Minnesota, and in 2021 she was named Minnesota #1 Greatest Athlete of All Time by Tell’em Sport.

While she has accomplished so much on the court and in the field, one of Adamczak-Glavan’s proudest coaching accomplishments came in her personal life. Her son, Matthew, was born with cerebral palsy, and she was told he would never walk or talk – but she wouldn’t accept that diagnosis. Using her coaching skills – and refining them as they went along – she taught Matthew to walk and talk, and he graduated as a member of the Dean’s List from Augsburg University in 2021.

From her playing days to her coaching days, Adamczak-Glavan has excelled, and she will forever be remembered as one of the top female athletes the state of Minnesota has ever seen.