Kathlyn Kelley
Kathlyn Kelley Owens (August 30, 1919 – September 12, 2006) was an American athlete who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.[1] At the women's high jump competition she placed a joint 9th after making 1.50m, but failing to clear 1.55m. Born in Seneca, South Carolina,[2] she was never on the track team at high school,[3] but was coached by school principal Julian Davis, who encouraged her to try out for the Olympics and found track coaches from Clemson University to work with her. At the 1936 United States Women's Olympic Trials she tied for third place, which led to a jump-off against Ida Myers that left Kelley with a bronze medal from the event and a spot on the national Olympic team.[4] It was the last women's jump-off at an American Olympic trial until 2000.[5] Despite having made the team, however, she needed to raise $500 to fund her trip, which she found difficult owing to the Great Depression. Davis, however, called upon South Carolina state senator Harry I. Hughes to convince the legislature, successfully, to pay for her journey. Prior to leaving for Germany she dined with the 1932 champion Jean Shiley[4] and, during the Olympics, she roomed with gold medalists Helen Stephens and Betty Robinson. She planned to train for the 1940 Summer Olympics,[6] and even received a track scholarship to Greenville Women's College (which later became a part of Furman University), but was forced to leave the school after she was married in December 1938, per college policy. She then took up women's basketball, which she played until the birth of her first daughter in 1942,[4] and eventually settled with a career as a beautician.[2]
References
- ^ Kathlyn Kelley at Olympedia
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kathlyn Kelley". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
- ^ Welky, David (2008). Everything was better in America: print culture in the Great Depression. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-252-07504-9.
- ^ a b c Kirkpatrick, Mac C.; Thomas K. Perry (1997). The Southern Textile Basketball Tournament: a history, 1921–1997. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 433. ISBN 0-7864-0398-5.
- ^ DeArmond, Mike (July 17, 2007). "Extra efforts pay off for two Last pole vault, women's high jump spots go to jump-offs". Kansas City Star. pp. C9.
- ^ Bernadette, Hoyle (September 3, 1936). "S.C. Olympic Girl Reports Impressions of Trip". Rock Hill Herald. Rock Hill, South Carolina. p. 6. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
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- Ellison "Tarzan" Brown
- Harold Cagle (r)
- Ernest Crosbie
- Glenn Cunningham
- Glen Dawson
- Tom Deckard
- Foy Draper (r)
- Al Fitch (r)
- Glenn Hardin
- Chuck Hornbostel
- Johnny Kelley
- Ernest Koehler
- Don Lash
- James LuValle
- Albert Mangan
- Harold Manning
- Joe McCluskey
- Billy McMahon
- Ralph Metcalfe
- Eddie O'Brien (r)
- Jesse Owens
- Bob Packard
- Joe Patterson
- Eino Pentti
- Fritz Pollard
- Mack Robinson
- Archie San Romani
- Dale Schofield
- Harold Smallwood
- Roy Staley
- Forrest Towns
- Gene Venzke
- Archie Williams
- Harry Williamson
- John Woodruff
- Stanley Wudyka
- Frank Wykoff
- Bob Young (r)
- Louis Zamperini
- Dave Albritton
- Lee Bartlett
- John Brooks
- Billy Brown
- Ken Carpenter
- Bob Clark
- Henry Dreyer
- Gordon Dunn
- Don Favor
- Sam Francis
- Bill Graber
- Cornelius Johnson
- Earle Meadows
- Malcolm Metcalf
- Glenn Morris
- Jesse Owens
- Jack Parker
- Rolland Romero
- Bill Rowe
- Bill Sefton
- Alton Terry
- Delos Thurber
- Jack Torrance
- Dudley Wilkins
- Walter Wood
- Dimitri Zaitz
- Harriet Bland
- Anne O'Brien
- Tidye Pickett
- Betty Robinson (r)
- Annette Rogers
- Simone Schaller
- Helen Stephens
- Alice Arden
- Betty Burch
- Evelyn Ferrara
- Kathlyn Kelley
- Annette Rogers
- Helen Stephens
- Gertrude Wilhelmsen
- Martha Worst
- Marty Glickman
- Olive Hasenfus
- Louise Stokes
- Sam Stoller
- Josephine Warren
- Lawson Robertson (men's head coach)
- Dean Cromwell (men's assistant coach)
- Brutus Hamilton (men's assistant coach)
- Billy Hayes (men's assistant coach)
- Dee Boeckmann (women's coach)
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