Catégorie
Athlete
Sport
Tennis
Ville natale
Fredericton
Année d'intronisation
1972
athlete
Ethel Babbitt (D)
MEMBRE HONORÉ
Biographie
It has been sixty-two years since Mrs. H.R. Babbitt won the Canadian Ladies’ Singles and Mixed Doubles tennis championship, and yet her accomplishments as a New Brunswick amateur athlete remain unexcelled.Her competitive tennis career began in Fredericton in 1908, the same year she won her first New Brunswick championship, and ended in 1926 when she lost the same title to her daughter.In the interval she captured, among other prizes, 14 provincial, three maritime, and two national titles.In recent years much of Canada's National and International sports prestige has rested on the shoulders of young female athletes.It is all the more remarkable to note that Mrs. Babbitt’s honours were achieved when she was between the ages of 32 and 50!Thus, it is thoroughly appropriate that the first female enrolled in the Hall of Fame should be one who for so many years dominated her sport and who, in the words of Time Magazine, was indeed“. . . a tennis mother of ability.” Enrolled in the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame, June 3, 1972
Faits rapides
Winner of 14 provincial and three Maritime championships
Won the Ladies singles and mixed doubles titles at the All-Canadian championships in 1910
Won NB Ladies Singles title in 1910, 1911 and 1912
First woman inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame