Theresa Check comes to Cincinnati State with a strong background both in coaching and as  Athletic Director at Central State University.

Coach Check's vision for Cincinnati State athletics: 

"The department of athletics at Cincinnati State will produce student-athletes who exemplify good sportsmanship, integrity, respect for others, discipline, commitment and the ability to work as a valued member of a team.  The academic performance of our student-athletes will meet or exceed the level of the rest of the student body.  Our programs will be expected to train and compete at the highest championship level while adhering to all NJCAA rules and regulations.  Finally, the program will continue to thrive and ultimately grow as a result of the forward thinking of President Henderson."

In March of 2001, Theresa A. Check  stepped down as Head Women's Basketball Coach after 17 seasons to devote her full-time efforts to her duties as Director of Athletics. In her 17 seasons with the Lady Marauders, Check won 387 games while losing only109 games.  In 1993 she was named the Converse/WBCA NAIA Women's Basketball National Coach of the Year.

Coach Theresa A. Check’s strong interest in education began early and was influenced by her parents.  Her mother was a teacher in the Beavercreek School System and her father a Professor of Education at Central State University. Along with her five sisters she learned the many values that athletic participation can build.  Theresa began playing basketball in Cedarville, OH on a hoop in her back yard and she continued to play at Cedarville High School in the Girls Athletic Association program and graduated salutatorian of her class in 1970. Check went to Adelphi University in New York before returning to her home and graduating from Central State University. She played her senior year at CSU for Coach Bev Levison and was named team MVP. She received her M.Ed. from Miami Univ. (OH) in 1979.

As AD, Check implemented the five-year vision of growth for the entire athletic department that included moving to NCAA Division II status. Under her direction, the Central State football program was re-established, men and women's tennis and men's volleyball were added as intercollegiate sports and she set the stage for the return of baseball and softball to the Central State varsity lineup along with adding women’s bowling. 

In 2002, Check was selected to testify about Title IX to the U. S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on Opportunity in Athletics in Atlanta, Georgia. Recognized for her insight and leadership abilities, she was chosen to serve on Women's Basketball Advisory Committee for the Great Lakes Region.           

Check is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, the American Association of University Women, and the Black Coaches Association. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Xenia Kiwanis.

 In 1996, Coach Check was honored by being inducted in the Central State University Achievement Hall of Fame. In the fall of 2007, she was inducted into the Central State University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Coach Check was voted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2000 she was inducted into the Cedarville High School (OH), her high school alma mater's Hall of Honor. In 2004 she was inducted into Alter High School's (Dayton, OH) Hall of Fame. Also in 2004 she was inducted into the Greene County (OH) Women's Hall of Fame.

Check completed the HERS Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education held annually at Bryn Mawr College (PA) during the summer of 2005.

In the fall of 2006, Check was selected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Division 2 Athletic Directors Association. She was also invited to be part of the Symposium " Women of Color in Collegiate Athletics" at the NCAA Convention in January 2008

The National College Athletic Director's Association honored Check at their National Meeting in Dallas, TX in the Spring of 2008 as the Athletic Director of the Year for the Northeast Region of NCAA Division II.