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First Varsity Tennis Team for Women, 1970-1971

First_Varsity_Tennis_Team_for_Women_19701971.jpg

This is a photo of Wooster's First Women's Varsity Tennis Team. From left to right, the players were: Liz Pease, Peggy Brooks, Pat Vittum, Ann Singleton, Diana Wescott, Judy Donaldson, and Becky McNeese. Playing for the first year as a varsity sport, the women's tennis team had an excellent season with a record of 6-1-1 and a tie for sixth place in the Ohio Intercollegiate Women's Tennis Tournament. The team, coached by Dr. Maria Sexton, lost only to Denison in the second match of the year. The team consisted of junior Becky McNeese, first singles, freshman Judy Donaldson, second singles, senior Peggy Brooks, third singles, junior Ann Singleton and freshman Pat Vittum, first doubles and freshman Liz Pease and Diana Wescott, second doubles. The tennis players were wearing V-neck sweaters with stripes trimming the V, with a white shirt underneath. They were wearing matching white tennis skirts with stripes that match the sweater stripes. Some were wearing white socks and they were all wearing tennis shoes. The administrative head at the time was Virginia Hunt.

Collection Tags

TITLE

First Varsity Tennis Team for Women, 1970-1971

SUBJECT

Tennis; Tennis courts; Athletics; Sports; Uniforms; Tennis rackets; Tennis players; Sneakers; Women tennis players

DATE

1971

CREATOR

Unknown

CONTRIBUTOR

The College of Wooster

PUBLISHER

The College of Wooster

TYPE

Still image

FORMAT

JPEG

LANGUAGE

eng

RIGHTS

Women in Sport and Physical Education at The College of Wooster by Brenda Meese is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Based on a work at http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15963coll21
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/policies/

 

COVERAGE

1970-1971

RELATION

This item is part of the College of Wooster's more complete Women in Sport and Physical Education collection, which can be found here: http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15963coll21/id/1685