Patricia Henry
Nickname: Pat
Alias: Pat Yeomans
| Born |
Subscribe now
This information and data is not available because you are not our subscriber yet.
Please click here and get full access to the entire database! |
|---|---|
| Died | |
| Plays | |
| Bio | Her father Bill Henry was a Los Angeles Times reporter, editor and columnist for over 60 years and a Medal of Freedom winner. Her mother Corinne Stanton Henry was a Southern California tennis champion. Pat competed in tennis her entire life and won several national age-group titles, from US Junior Girls champion in 1935 to US 90-and-over in 2009. She won the National College Girls title twice at Occidental College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. A Masters Degree in Industrial Design reflected her life-long passion for art. In 1938 she married attorney Edgar Yeomans. Pat lobbied hard to get tennis reintroduced into the Olympic Games, a dream that was realized when it became a demonstration sport at the 1984 Games. 1935 National Girls’ 18 champion. At Occidental College, she became No. 1 on the men’s freshman team, but Title IX was nearly forty-years away and she was told that she would not be allowed to compete with them. Nonetheless, she won the College Girls’ Invitational in 1936 and 1937, which was the pre-NCAA Championships organized by Hazel Wightman. Pat wrote histories of Southern California Tennis, the Los Angeles Tennis Club, and the First Baptist Church, and was updating the book on Southern California tennis when she died. She co-authored the History of the Olympic Games distributed at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, wrote numerous articles and distributed educational brochures for youth tennis, Olympics or law. She personally initiated the local campaign to bring tennis to the 1984 Olympics as a demonstration sport, from which it became a full Olympic sport at the Seoul Games of 1988. She co-founded Youth vs. Experience, a tennis team match where young champions were pitted against old champions. She won many honors for her achievements, including Occidental College Athletic Hall of Fame, Los Angeles USD Athletic Hall of Fame, and Southern California Tennis Hall of Fame, as well as a lifetime achievement award as a founder of the California Grand Jurors Association. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles, and Occidental College. |
| Misc | Subscribe now |
| Tournament | AO | RG | W | US | Win-Loss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Subscribe now
This information and data is not available because you are not our subscriber yet.
Please click here and get full access to the entire database! |
|||||