| Margaret Varner Bloss | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Margaret Varner | |||||||||||||||||
| Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 October 1927 El Paso, Texas, United States | |||||||||||||||||
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Margaret Varner Bloss (born October 4, 1927) is a retired American athlete and professor of physical education from El Paso, Texas who excelled in three distinctly different racket sports: badminton, squash, and tennis.
She is the only person to have represented the US at the highest level of international competition in all three sports,[1] and is the only person to have won the U.S. national singles championships of both badminton and squash or to have been inducted into the respective U.S. halls of fame of both sports.[2][3][4]
- ^ Profile, usabadminton.org; accessed October 29, 2016.
- ^ 2006 U.S. Nationals - Past Champions, ocbadmintonclub.com; accessed October 29, 2016.
- ^ Walk of Fame Inductees and Profiles, usabadminton.org; accessed October 29, 2016.
- ^ United States Squash Hall of Fame Members Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine, us-squash.org; accessed October 29, 2016.