Mary Pratt
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Sport: Multiple |
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Year Graduated:
1941 |
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Year Inducted:
1978 |
Mary Pratt had one problem when she attended Sargent College.
She was only allowed to participate in one sport at a time.
She made every team she ever tried out for and represented
the college in basketball, softball, fistball, volleyball,
lacrosse, field hockey, sailing, tennis and archery.
Following her graduation with an A.B. Degree from Sargent
in 1941, she became a schoolteacher in the Quincy school system.
During the summer months she played professional softball
in the All America Girls' Softball League, pitching for teams
in Kinosha, Wisconsin and Rockford, Illinois. The money she
earned enabled her to further her education at Boston University,
where she earned her Master's Degree in education and a C.A.G.S.
She also played softball for the Boston Garden League and
at one time was the only woman on the all male North Quincy
Associates in the Park Department League.
In lacrosse, she competed with the Boston Lacrosse Assn.
and was a member of the United States national touring team
that played international competition.
A physical education teacher at Quincy High, Miss Pratt coached
10 championship softball teams in Massachusetts and spent
summers working with the Quincy Recreation Department.
