Mary Ann Leight Harris Explained

Mary Ann Leight Harris, formerly Mary Ann Leight (born 1939), is a former American field hockey player and coach.

She graduated from North Penn High School and attended Temple University. She was a multi-sport athlete who received nine varsity letters at Temple. She was a member of the United States national field hockey team from 1958 to 1973 and the team captain from 1971 to 1973.

She later worked as a teacher and coach at Springfield High School, Sidwell Friends School, and Souderton High School. She compiled over 300 wins as a field hockey coach, and her teams won nine conference championships.^[1]

In 1988, she became one of the charter inductees into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame.^[2] She was also inducted into the Temple University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982.^[3]

Notes and References

1. News: Field Hockey: Harris earns 300th win. Souderton Independent. Thomas D. McGlinchey. October 22, 2009.
2. Web site: Hall of Fame Inductees. USA Field Hockey. January 12, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20140228091203/http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Field-Hockey/TEAM-USA/HALL-OF-FAME/Hall-of-Fame-Inductees. dead. February 28, 2014.
3. Web site: Mary Ann Leight Harris. Temple University. January 12, 2021.