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Wagar Women's Knockout Teams
The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams is a knock-out team event. The event is restricted to female players. History The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams is a competition for teams of four to six females that is scored by IMPs with Swiss qualifying. Until 1976 there was only one "National" Women's Team championship — and that was a board-a-match event. The winners have their names inscribed on the Wagar Trophy, which honors one of the all-time great players. Margaret Wagar (1902-1990), inducted into the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame in 1999, became Life Master #37 in 1943, the fifth woman to earn the rank. She and Kay Rhodes share one of the most remarkable achievements in ACBL history, winning the premier championship for women pairs in four consecutive years, 1955 to 1958 (Whitehead Women's Pairs The Whitehead Women's Pairs b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Contract Bridge League
The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission ''"to promote, grow and sustain the game of bridge and serve the bridge-related interests of our Members."'' Its major activities are: * sanctioning games at local bridge clubs and regional events * certifying bridge teachers and club directors * conducting the North American Bridge Championships (NABC) * providing education materials and services * administering the ACBL masterpoints system for tracking player performance * providing oversight for ethical behavior and play *Besides representing the interests of its members with the World Bridge Federation, , it had more than 165,000 members. History The ACBL was created in 1937 by the merger of the American Bridge League and the United States Bridge Association in 1937. At that time, its bridge tournaments were open only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheri Bjerkan
Cheryl Lou "Cheri" Bjerkan (born 29 June 1947) is an American bridge player. She has won 14 North American Bridge Championships and one world championship. Bjerkan is from Elmhurst, Illinois. She lives in the Chicago area. Bjerkan won the women's individual championship at the 2013 SportAccord World Mind Games. Bridge accomplishments Wins * Venice Cup (1) 1987 * North American Bridge Championships (14) ** Whitehead Women's Pairs (2) 1992, 2002 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 2011 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (5) 1984, 1987, 1991, 1997, 2008 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (4) 1989, 1992, 1996, 2002 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1991 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1998 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (2) 1991, 2013 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 2004 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Brid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Sutherlin
Peggy Sutherlin née Berry (born 1937) is an American bridge player from Dallas, Texas. Sutherlin earned a B.A. from San Francisco State University and worked as an airline flight attendant. "When I applied for the job, I told them I wanted to be a stewardess so I could go to bridge tournaments. The plan worked! I was a stewardess for 37 years." She has been a member of several contract bridge governing committees and the ACBL Board of Governors. Sutherlin was Inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2014 as a recipient of the Blackwood Award for contributions to the game "without necessarily being world class player". Bridge accomplishments Awards and honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award 2014"Induction by Year" . ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-10. Wins * World Team Olympiad W ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Picus
Susan Jean Picus (27 August 1948 – 17 November 2021) was an American bridge player from New York City. A graduate of NYU and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she had worked as a software engineering manager and director at Bell Laboratories, Unix System Laboratories, Novell, and Bear Stearns. She was married to Barry Rigal, a bridge player, writer and commentator. Bridge accomplishments Picus won four international events as a player and placed second in another; she captained the gold medal women's team in the 1997 and 2013 Venice Cup. She finished first or second in every one of the eight US women trials in which she played from 1991 to 2003, bar 1996. She won her first two US titles before becoming a Life Master. Wins * Venice Cup (3) 1991, 1993, 2003 * McConnell Cup (1) 1994 * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 2009 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (3) 1986, 2002, 2005 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 1972, 1991 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rozanne Pollack
Rozanne Marel Pollack (born April 29, 1948) is an American bridge player from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Dr. Pollack is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Columbia University. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (12) ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 2011 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1986 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 1990, 1993, 1999 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1988, 1997, 2001 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1985, 2004, 2005, 2006 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 2004 ** North American Pairs (1) 2012 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 2013 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 1985, 2009 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1986, 1987, 2006 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match The Mixed Board-a-Match Teams is a bridge competition held at the summer American Contract Bridge League The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Berkowitz
Lisa Berkowitz (born 1952) is an American bridge player. She is from Old Tappan, New Jersey. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (17) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (2) 1986, 1987 ** Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 2009 ** North American Pairs (1) 1995 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (2) 1992, 2008 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 1990, 1999, 2009 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1986, 1988, 1997 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (5) 1986, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2002 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 2011, 2014 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams is a knock-out team event. The event is restric ... (2) 1985, 1994 Notes Living people American contract bridge players 1952 births Place of birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Martel (bridge)
Janet Friedman Martel (born February 26, 1943) is an American bridge player from Davis, California. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, she is a retired attorney and a past president of the United States Bridge Federation (USBF). She is married to Chip Martel, a world champion player. She was previously married to Lew Stansby another world champion player. Her parents Milton and Rose Friedman were both free market economists. Martel has won seven national championships, or national-rated events at North American Bridge Championships meets. Playing under the name Jan Stansby with Pat Leary in 1974, she won the Whitehead Women's Pairs, the premier ACBL annual championship for women pairs. She was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2012. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award, 2012 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Palmer
Mary "Beth" Palmer (August 14, 1952 – October 2, 2019) was an American bridge player from Chevy Chase, Maryland. She was an attorney. At the time of her death, she was 11th in the World Bridge Federation women's rankings by PPs (which do not age off) and 15th by MPs."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2019-10-02 At the in Beijing, December 2011, Palmer and won the "Pairs Women" gold medal. Not a world championship meet, the SportAccord WMG invited 24 women from Great Britain, France, China, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Kemp
Edith Freilich née Seamon (September 8, 1911 - May 14, 2011) was an American bridge player, "one of the world's greatest female bridge players". As a player in important tournaments, she was also known as Edith Seligman, Edith Kemp, and Edith Kemp Freilich. Among women, she is second to Helen Sobel Smith for winning the greatest number of North American Bridge Championships. She was from Miami Beach, Florida. Edith Seamon was raised in South Orange, New Jersey. Her brother, Billy Seamon, and sister, Anne Burnstein, also became leading bridge players. Freilich won the top two KO events on the ACBL calendar, the Vanderbilt and Spingold, in 1963. In 1984, her team won the Wagar. Freilich was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1997. Freilich died in Miami on May 14, 2011. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 1997 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Deas
Lynn Davis Deas (June 16, 1952 – May 10, 2020) was a professional American bridge player. At the time of her death, she was second in the World Bridge Federation (WBF) All time Women Ranking by Placement Points, which do not decay over time. Deas was a native of Newport News, Virginia, near Norfolk, where she was a student at Eastern Virginia Medical School when she suffered a bad automobile accident in 1980. Already an avid bridge player, she played "all the time" when broken bones and blurry vision forced her to take one-year leave from school, and subsequently decided to drop out in favor of the card game as a career. Deas won 27 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) titles and nine world championships, including three in the Venice Cup. At one time Deas ranked first among Women World Grand Masters. At one time she was on the road as a professional player for 30 weeks a year. She was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 1997 and reduced her travel. In January 2012, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Utegaard
Helen Utegaard is an American bridge player from Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in Beijing. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1988 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1974 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1988 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (5) 1971, 1973, 1981, 1984, 1988 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1992 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 1975, 1988 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1975 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1987 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1992 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1991 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match The Mixed Board-a-Match Teams is a bridge competition held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). From 2010 the event is officially the Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match Teams, as it is contested ... (1) 1980 References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Stansby
Janet Friedman Martel (born February 26, 1943) is an American bridge player from Davis, California. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, she is a retired attorney and a past president of the United States Bridge Federation (USBF). She is married to Chip Martel, a world champion player. She was previously married to Lew Stansby another world champion player. Her parents Milton and Rose Friedman were both free market economists. Martel has won seven national championships, or national-rated events at North American Bridge Championships meets. Playing under the name Jan Stansby with Pat Leary in 1974, she won the Whitehead Women's Pairs, the premier ACBL annual championship for women pairs. She was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2012. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award, 2012" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
