University of Memphis Athletics
M Club Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2006
Jim Ladyman was a four-year letterman at Memphis from 1974-78. Memphis won three Metro Conference Championships with Ladyman on the roster.Â
As a freshman, he was 20-8 in singles and teamed with fellow M-Club Hall of Fame member Phil Chamberlain in doubles. He missed a majority of his sophomore year due to injury, but came back to post a 15-7 mark in singles and a 7-5 mark in doubles during the spring dual season of his junior year. That year, the team posted a 22-2 record and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. As a senior, Ladyman was 16-7 in singles and 9-6 in doubles, winning the No. 5 singles championship in 1978 at the Metro Conference Championships. In 1978, Ladyman was named the Metro Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player.Â
Ladyman is married to the former Libby Murphy. Their son, Bo, is a sophomore tennis player at Furman University in South Carolina, and their daughter, Emily, played tennis at Ole Miss. Jim works in the Bond Division at Morgan Keegan in Memphis.
He joins his brother, Henry, and his niece, Christina, in the M-Club Hall of Fame. Christina, a member of the Lady Tiger tennis program, was inducted into the Hall in 2005.
