Rosabelle Sinclair
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1890 |
| Died | 1981 (aged 90–91) |
| Sport | |
| School team | St Leonards School |
| U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame, 1992 | |
Rosabelle Sinclair (1890 – 1981), known as the affectionately as the "Grand Dame of Lacrosse", established the first women's lacrosse team in the United States. She was the first woman to be inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.[1]
Sinclair was born in the Russian Empire in 1890 and educated in Philadelphia, before attending St Leonards School in St Andrews, where women's lacrosse had been introduced by Louisa Lumsden. Lumsden brought the game to Scotland in 1890 after watching a men's lacrosse game between the Canghuwaya Indians and the Montreal Lacrosse Club.[2]
After leaving St Leonards School in 1910, Sinclair attended Madame Bergman Österberg's College of Physical Training in Dartford, England, where she was a classmate of fellow lacrosse coach Cara Gascoigne. She then taught at an all-girls school in Yorkshire and in 1919 accepted a post at Chelsea Physical Training College. In 1922 she left for the United States.[3]