F. Elizabeth Richey

F. Elizabeth Richey (October 20, 1912 - May 18, 1988) was an American field hockey and squash coach and a professor of physical education, born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She played on the United States women's national field hockey team, either as a reserve or first-team player, for 20 years between 1931 and 1958, and she was an All-American lacrosse player for a record 21 consecutive years. At Vassar College, where she worked for 41 years from 1937, she started the first women's collegiate squash program in the country and later founded the national intercollegiate individual and team squash tournaments in 1965 and 1973. She was a charter inductee of the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988, entered the lacrosse hall of fame in 1993 and the College Squash Hall of Fame in 1995, and the Betty Richey Award is named in her honour.