Shirley Reekie: Sailor, Rower, Professor
Kinesiology Professor Shirley Reekie first hopped aboard her father’s sailboat at age two, inspiring a career in athletics and sport history.
Category: SJSU Women in Sport
Shanice Howard: In Search of the Perfect Routine
Gymnast Shanice Howard was named the 2011 Arthur Ashe Jr. Female Sports Scholar of the Year and went on to become a physical therapist.
Lisa Peters: Making Waves
Spartan swimmer Lisa Covey Peters, ’07 Physics, leads an exciting career as a systems engineer at Lockheed Martin.
Spartan Women in Sport: Stacey Johnson, ’80 Public Relations
Stacey Johnson has made it her mission to “speak actively for women.”
Spartan Women in Sport: Marti Malloy, ’10 BS, ’15 MS Mass Communications
As a professional woman athlete, Malloy confronted—and often defied—common stereotypes about gender and sport.
Spartan Women in Sport: Lynn Vidali Gautschi, ’76 Kinesiology, ’77 Teaching Credential
“Setting kids up to be successful is probably one of the greatest feelings in the world, those adults in your life, those coaches that really go unnoticed in the world, they are the ones who have a lot to do with helping kids.”
Spartan Women in Sport: Dana Dormann, ’90 Finance
“I love being able to have an impact on young people in an area where I feel like I have the most expertise. Sport is a great equalizer.”
Spartan Women in Sport: Gay MacLellan, ’83 MA Kinesiology
“To see women perform at high levels, and to hear those women speak and present themselves, I think changes a lot of people’s opinions and outlook on women,” says Gay MacLellan, ’83 MA Kinesiology. Learn how the former fencing champion and pioneering international referee has applied her athletic prowess to life beyond sport.
Spartan Women in Sport: Tracy Hanson, ’93 Kinesiology
Tracy Hanson, ’93 Kinesiology, LPGA golfer, supports athletes who face significant obstacles, including abuse and performance acceptance, in their pursuit of sport.
Spartan Women in Sport: Thomasina Wallace, ’12 Kinesiology
Record-setting gymnast Thomasina Wallace, ’12 Kinesiology, says that “twenty percent [of the sport] is talent and 80 percent is how mentally prepared are you to perform your routines while others are judging you.” Learn how she overcame injuries and defied stereotypes during her career at SJSU.
Spartan Women in Sport: Carolyn Lewis, ’70 Kinesiology
“Small acts of defiance make change,” says Carolyn Lewis, ’70 Kinesiology, Teaching Credential. The four-sport collegiate athlete became a coach and athletics administrator and helped create SJSU’s Gender Equity Plan.
Throwing Convention: Margaret Jenkins, ’25 Education
Margaret Jenkins, ’25 Education, threw discus in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam as a member of the first ever women’s track and field team representing the United States. Jenkins belongs to a tradition of Spartan woman athletes who have set records on and off the field.
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