Mary Weiss has devoted nearly her entire professional career to her alma mater.  She arrived in Buies Creek in the fall of 1983 after graduating from Chowan Junior College, where she starred in basketball and softball. 
 
Her two-year career at Campbell was especially outstanding on the hardwood.  Mary led the team to a 31-20 won-lost record and her career assists average – nearly seven per game – still stands on top of the Camel record books more than 40 seasons later.
 
She joined head coach Wanda Watkins' coaching staff in 1986-87 – the team's first NCAA Division I season – and spent 30 years – including 12 as associate head coach – helping to guide the program. 
 
During her tenure, Campbell won 465 games, including 290 Big South and Atlantic Sun conference contests.  In addition, the Camels won the 1989 Big South and 2000 ASun tournament titles and made the program's first-ever NCAA tournament appearance in 2000.  Mary coached 51 all-conference honorees, including six league players of the year.
 
After retiring from coaching in 2016, Weiss joined the Campbell faculty and is an instructor of exercise science in the College of Arts and Sciences. 
 
On January 24, 2026, she was inducted into Campbell's Athletics Hall of Fame.
 
In the next episode of Tales from the Creek, Mary Weiss chats with Stan Cole about her path to Campbell, her professional career, and more.
 
Suggestions for future Tales from the Creek interview subjects are always welcome and may be sent to Stan Cole at cole@campbell.edu.