Dr Debi Thomas
Debi Thomas, M.D., grew up wanting to be a champion figure skater and a doctor, and she has succeeded as both. In 1988, she won the bronze Olympic medal and in 1997 she graduated from Northwestern University Medical School.
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Joan Newton Cuneo
Following Joan Newton Cuneo’s wins in the legendary Glidden Tour in 1908, women were banned from competing in American Automobile Association events.
Barbara Washburn
The Operation White Tower expedition commenced in the spring of 1947 with the goal of mapping and filming the highest mountain in North America. Barbara Polk Washburn was the only woman on the team of mountaineers, photographers, scientists, and military men.
Marla Runyan
Legally blind since childhood, Olympic track and field athlete and marathon runner Marla Runyan never let her vision loss stand in the way of her athletic dreams.
Pearl Dawson
Pearl Howard Dawson was a leading figure in the formative years of women’s team sports in New Zealand, particularly hockey, both as a player and administrator.
Forrest Ross
New Zealand teacher, mountaineer, journalist and writer
Margaret Lorimer
New Zealand school principal and mountaineer.
Viola Bell
New Zealand teacher, sports administrator and community leader
Louie Roberts
Besides her interest in theatre, fashion, literature, art, woodwork and car maintenance, she was a capable mountaineer with a penchant for rugged West Coast New Zealand terrain. Her warmth, energy and knowledge assisted many students to attain international standards of practice in physiotherapy and helped to firmly establish the profession in New Zealand.
Sybil Lupp
The first New Zealand woman to achieve national prominence in motor racing and to establish a significant automotive business