A native of New York City, Mickey Kasner became a pioneer in the development of girls' athletics in New York State and in the nation.

Kasner earned a bachelor's degree from Ithaca College in 1950 and obtained her master's from SUNY Cortland in 1961. She began a 25-yearcareer as a physical education teacher and coach of girls' sports at Little Falls Junior-Senior High School in 1955.

She was named Coordinator of Athletics at Little Falls in 1971, and served until her retirement in 1979. Kasner became the first woman president of New York's Section III Athletic Council in 1980. Then in 1984, she was elected president of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, the first woman in the National Federation of High Schools to receive this position.

While at Little Falls, she coached basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, badminton, track and field, softball, tennis and archery. He gymnastics' teams were league champions for eight of 11 years. Her varsity basketball teams had just one losing season in 27 years.

Kasner was inducted into the Ithaca College Sports Hall of Fame in 1984 and the SUNY Institute at Utica-Rome Hall of Fame in 1993. She has balanced all of this with her roles as wife, mother of two, and community volunteer.