Betty Shellenberger

Betty Shellenberger, sometimes known as Shelly Shellenberger, was born on 8 August 1921 in Germantown, Pennsylvania and died on 30 December 2019 at the age of 98. She was an American field hockey and lacrosse player, coach and official. She played on the United States women's national field hockey team in 1939 to 1941, 1946 to 1955 and 1960, and on the national lacrosse team from 1940 to 1961. During the Second World War she served in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve as an aviation mechanic. She coached field hockey, lacrosse and badminton at Chestnut Hill College and later umpired national and international games. She was a charter inductee of the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988 and was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1994.