Sunny Hale

Sunset Sunny Hale was a professional polo player, born in Carmel, California on 30 December 1968, and one of the few women to play on professional teams made up almost entirely of men. In 2000 she was on the winning team in the U.S. Open Polo Championship and became the first woman to do so; at that time she outranked 96 percent of the players in the world, men included. Described as the most famous female polo player in the world, she was active in developing women's polo. Her mother, Sue Sally Hale, had played polo disguised as a man and is credited with breaking the gender barrier in the sport. Sunny Hale was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2012 and died on 26 February 2017 aged 48.