He was a husband, a father, a grandfather, a coach and many other titles in between.

He was every bit as proud of the BYU baseball’s coveted Cameron Tuckett Award, named in his late father’s honor, as he was of the Homer Rice Award (1994), and the NACDA/NIT Outstanding Athletic Director Award (1997) for being the nation’s outstanding director of athletics.

Glen was born on December 11, 1927 in Salt Lake City to Cameron and Bessie Tuckett. Their hard work ethic of God, family and baseball they taught Glen is evidenced throughout his life. An eloquent orator who also could hold his own with an umpire, he was ever so proud of his roots in Murray, Utah where he graduated from Murray High School. He enlisted in the Army in 1946 where he served in Japan. He played nine seasons in the minor pro baseball leagues.

Tuckett earned his BS degree from the University of Utah in 1953. He later went on to earn an MS degree from BYU in 1962 and received his EdD from BYU in 1975. He began his teaching and coaching career at West High School in Salt Lake City. At West, Tuckett coached football, basketball and baseball for six years before accepting the assignments at BYU in the Fall of 1959.

He married Josephine Whittaker on March 19th, 1959, in the Salt Lake Temple. Later that year he was hired by Brigham Young University as its baseball coach and an assistant football coach. Glen and Jo are the proud parents of four daughters and while he never had biological sons, he considered scores of his baseball players as his sons to whom he was loyal.

One of the highlights of his baseball career came in 1974 as coach of the United States team which won the World Amateur Baseball Tournament for only the second time in the tournament’s 27-year history. In 1977 he was president of the American Baseball Coaches Association, 1979 ABCA Hall of Fame inductee, received its Lefty Gomez Award in 1990, Chairman of the ABCA Board of Directors ( 2004- 10) and was the ninth winningest baseball coach in the NCAA with a 445-256-4 record (.634) when he was named director of athletics at BYU. Tuckett’s BYU baseball teams played in the College World Series in Omaha in 1968, 1971 and qualified for a 1961 appearance, but did not participate because the games were scheduled on Sunday.

Out of respect, BYU baseball never reassigned his jersey No. 20 that he wore as the Cougar coach. In the off-season from 1966-75, he was color analyst for KSL Radio with Paul James for BYU football and basketball games. He was inducted into seven Halls of Fame.

Among Tuckett’s honors during BYU’s glory years were the prestigious Dale Rex Award (1983) as he partnered with BYU football coach LaVell Edwards to bring the national spotlight with 17 bowl appearances. No sport or few athletes felt short-changed under Tuckett’s tutelage which brought NCAA championship events to the Provo campus in basketball and track and field. He was a founder and prime mover of the establishment of the Utah Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.

He was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served faithfully in many callings, including Patriarch, in the stake presidency and Bishoprics. Glen and Jo served as family history missionaries.

“My Camelot,” was what Glen reflected of his service at BYU, ranging from his 17-year tenure as baseball coach and health professor in the College of Physical Education (1959-1976) through an equivalent 17-year span as director of athletics for the Cougars (1976-1993). His retirement at BYU was short-lived when the University of Alabama tapped Tuckett to be its interim director of athletics for 18 months (1995-96), where his efforts were successful in tidying up the Crimson Tide program from NCAA violations.

Glen is survived by daughters Shannon Tuckett, Kendall Tuckett, Erin Mooring (Jeremy), son-in-law Gene Shawcroft (Janeen); 10 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife Josephine Whittaker in 2020, his parents, younger brother Larry, and daughter Alison Shawcroft.

A viewing will be held Friday evening, November 5th, 2021, from 6-8 p.m. at Nelson Family Mortuary, 4780 N. University Ave, Provo, UT and one prior to the funeral from 9-9:45am at the chapel. Funeral services will be Saturday morning, November 6, 2021 at 10 a.m., at the Edgemont 6th Ward, 4056 Timpview Drive in Provo, followed by burial at Eastlawn Cemetery in Provo.

In lieu of flowers “take a child to a ball game and buy them a hot dog.”