Peggy Howe White (November 8, 1924 – 1997) was an American pioneer in women's
squash
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.
She was born in
Natick, Massachusetts to
William Francis Howe and
Margaret Howe, a squash pioneer and acclaimed founder of
The Howe Cup
The Howe Cup is an all-female American Squash team championship run since 1955 for all ages and abilities. About the Cup
Creation
The tournament started in 1928 as an inter-city competition between the cities of New York City, Philadelphia an ...
. Her twin sister
Betty Constable
Elizabeth Howe Constable (8 November 1924 – 9 September 2008) was an American pioneer in women's squash and was the first women's squash coach at Princeton University.
Life and career
The first of twins born in Natick, Massachusetts, she gradua ...
also went on to be a champion.
White won the national championship in 1952 and 1953.
Peggy married Robert White in the 1950s and together they had two sons and one daughter. They spent their married life in
Rochester, NY
Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in Wes ...
until retirement in
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket () is an island about south from Cape Cod. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck Island, Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a Consolidated city-county, combined county/town government t ...
. She died in
Lutherville, MD in 1997 and is buried in Nantucket.
References
External links
United States Squash Hall of Fame
1924 births
1997 deaths
American female squash players
20th-century American women
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