Margaret Varner Bloss (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Margaret Varner Bloss was an 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 USA at the highest level of international competition in all three sports. She is also 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. Perhaps Ms. Varner's most impressive accomplishments came in badminton, which she took up at Texas University for Women in the late 1940s, having already gained prominence in junior and collegiate tennis. In 1955 and 1956 she won consecutive Women's Singles titles at the All-England Championships, then the world's most prestigious badminton tournament for individual players. She was a runner-up in the All England Singles in 1957, 1958 and 1960, and shared the Doubles title in 1958