Rosabelle Sinclair

Rosabelle Sinclair (1890 to 1981) was a lacrosse coach and physical educator known as the Grand Dame of Lacrosse, who established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States and was the first woman inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Born in the Russian Empire in 1890 and educated in Philadelphia, she attended St Leonards School in St Andrews, where women's lacrosse had been introduced by Louisa Lumsden, and then trained at Madame Bergman Osterberg's College of Physical Training in Dartford, England. She taught in Yorkshire and at Chelsea Physical Training College before leaving for the United States in 1922. There she taught at Rosemary Hall School and then at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, where she introduced lacrosse in 1926 and served as athletic director. In 1931 she helped form the United States Women's Lacrosse Association, later consolidated into US Lacrosse.