Marjorie Blackwood-Schelling (born 1 May 1957) is a

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retired

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player. Partnering the Australian Susan Leo, she reached the doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 1981 and 1982, and with Pam Whytcross, also Australian, the French Open in 1980. She was the coach/captain of the Canadian Federation Cup team in 1983. She was

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's 1982 female player of the year. Born to a Canadian government officer in Karachi, she grew up in

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and Ottawa and attended the

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. After her retirement, she and her husband Peter Schelling were tennis directors at Whistler Tennis Club. They continue to coach in the Gulf Islands. She was inducted into the

Lisgar Collegiate Institute Lisgar Collegiate Institute is an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board secondary school in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school is located in downtown Ottawa by the Rideau Canal. History In 1843, a grammar school with 40 paying students ...

Athletic Wall of Fame in 2018.Alere Flammam, ''Lisgar Alumni Association Newsletter'', winter 2018

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* * * Canada national tennis team players Canadian female tennis players University of Texas alumni 1957 births Living people Lisgar Collegiate Institute alumni Sportspeople from Ottawa Racket sportspeople from Karachi 20th-century Canadian women {{Canada-tennis-bio-stub