Gertrude Joyce Cran Barry
Gertrude Joyce Cran Barry (1900-1964) was a Scottish lacrosse and field hockey player who lived in the United States.[1] She was inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963.[2] She was inducted into the Scotland Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2015.[3] She was the founder of CRANBARRY Equipment Company.[1][4][2] This was the United State’s first equipment company for women’s lacrosse. [4][2]
Barry came to the United States to teach at a field hockey camp in 1925.[1] She then became a Physical Training Instructor at Wellesley College.[5] Barry figured out that field hockey was bad for posture due to the form of the arched back, and that lacrosse is good for posture because players are running upright.[5][6] This further promoted more women to play lacrosse.[5]
In 1931, she became the United States Women's Lacrosse Association's (USWLA) first president.[2] She held this role for four years.[4] Barry helped organize the USWLA's first national tournament in 1933 in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1947 she established CRANBARRY Equipment Company.[1][4][2] In 1950 she chaired the U.S. Team Selection Committee.[1]
Joyce Cran Barry became the second woman inducted into the US Hall of Fame (besides Margaret Boyd) in 1993.[2] In 1934, a prediction was made by the leaders of New York Women’s Lacrosse Association that lacrosse would be more popular than field hockey.[7][6]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "JOYCE C. BARRY". USA Lacrosse. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Joyce Cran Barry". Lacrosse Scotland. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ↑ "Hall of Fame – Lacrosse Scotland". www.lacrossescotland.com. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "GertrudeJoyceCran(1900-1964)" (PDF). Bergman Österberg Union of Trained Gymnastic Teachers. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Swissler, Becky (2009). Winning Lacrosse for Girls. Facts On File, Incorporated. pp. 4–5.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fisher, Donald M. (2002). Lacrosse: A History of the Game. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 148.
- ↑ Gable, Martha (March 1935). "How about LaCrosse for Girls?". Mind and Body. 41: 307.