Diane Whipple

Diane Whipple (31 January 1967 to 26 January 2001) was an American lacrosse player and college coach. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, she grew up in Manhasset, New York, where she was a gifted young athlete and a two-time All-American lacrosse player at high school level. She went on to play at Penn State and was twice a member of the United States Women's Lacrosse World Cup team. Later she moved to San Francisco, tried without success to qualify for the 800 metres in track and field for the 1996 Olympic team, and became the lacrosse coach at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga. She was killed in a dog attack in the hallway of her San Francisco apartment building on 26 January 2001, a case that led to criminal charges against the dogs' keepers and clarified the law on implied-malice murder.