While writing my archival research paper on Marygrace Colby’s illustrations in a scrapbook she made to detail Women’s Athletics I encountered this article. It is a mini overview of the beginning of the Santa Clara Women’s Athletics Program which was published in Santa Clara Magazine in 2012. The surprising thing was that I did not find that much else about Marygrace Colby and her role in shaping Women’s Athletics a SCU.
One of the next links opens a WordPress site with this information…
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Mary Grace Colby, Santa Clara University Athletics Department
June 27, 1996 @ 7:30 am – 9:00 am
Mary Grace spoke on “Life in a Coed Men’s College”. Colby advanced women’s athletics from “tea and crumpets” to serious sports with year-round seasons and national championship teams.
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This useless information. Why can’t I seem to find substantial information other than this article?Why isn’t there a bio on Marygrace Colby somewhere in the SCU athletics website?
Source: Wikimedia Commons
It seems unfair that they don’t mention Colby when she had such an impact on our athletics program. It makes me start to wonder how much the students (and athletes in particular) know about Marygrace or if they even know of her at all. Personally, I did not know who she was until I started digging around in the archives.
Brandi Chastain Source: Flickr
I can easily find an entire page of bio on Brandi Chastain on the SCU athletics page so shouldn’t I be able to find a little more on Marygrace Colby? Are the priorities of the university skewed towards present-day history or is the lack of information due to the difficulty of finding information in the archives?