Janet Moreau Stone
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Sport:
Track & Field |
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Year
Graduated: 1952 |
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Year
Inducted: 1978 |
If women had been eligible to compete with men in intercollegiate
athletics in 1952, Janet Moreau would have been a member of
the Boston University track team.
"I wish they had allowed women to compete," Doug
Raymond, who was then head coach of track for the Terriers,
commented. "I clocked Janet more than once in the 100
at 10 seconds. She was faster than most men in New England."
Doug hardly overstated the facts, as Janet's record of accomplishments
indicates.
From 1949 to 1952 she was named four times to the All America
track team. In 1951 as a member of the United States National
team, she won a gold medal in the Pan America Games, running
a leg on the 4 x 100 meter relay team.
A year later, as a member of the U.S. Olympic team, she also
won a gold medal as a member of the relay team that set a
world record in the event of 45.9 seconds.
The same year, she won the National standing broad jump championship
with an American record of 8'10", won the national indoor
220 title, the national indoor 50 yard dash championship and
was the high point scorer in the National Indoor Championships.
The same year she was the National Junior Champion in the
100 meter dash, setting an American record at 11.8 seconds
and completed a five year sweep as New England champion in
the 50, 100 and 220.
In addition to her amazing accomplishments in track, Janet
was the National Junior Freestyle swimming champion at 100
meters in 1948 and held several Rhode Island and New England
championships before giving up swimming in order to concentrate
on track.
