BALTIMORE, Md. – Former three-sport athlete, Gertrude Dunn, was selected to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame by the U.S. Lacrosse Board of Directors it was announced Saturday as part of the men’s lacrosse championship weekend festivities. This year’s class, the 50th class to earn induction into the hallowed halls, will be inducted in a ceremony on Nov. 10 at The Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley, Md.
Dunn, an outstanding all-around athlete who is also a member of the West Chester Athletics Hall of Fame, is being inducted posthumously as a truly great player. Dunn played on the U.S. national team from 1957 to 1963 and was a member of the U.S. team that toured Great Britain and Ireland in 1957. She also served as an umpire for 20 years in the Philadelphia Women’s Lacrosse Association.
Away from lacrosse, Dunn (’60) played shortstop in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, made famous by the 1992 movie, “A League of Their Own.” She was the rookie of the year in the league in 1952. She was also inducted into the National Field Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988.
Dunn participated in both field hockey and lacrosse while at West Chester in the late 1950s. She died in 2004 when the plane she was piloting crashed.
The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame is a component of U.S. Lacrosse, the national governing body for men’s and women’s lacrosse. The 2007 induction class consists of Gail Cummings-Danson (Temple), Dunn, Susan Ford (Connecticut College), Tim Goldstein (Cornell), Susan K. Kidder (East Stroudsburg), Darren Lowe (Brown), Sharon Pfluger (TCNJ), Karl Rippelmeyer (Navy), Thomas Sears (UNC) and Brian Wood (John’s Hopkins).
The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame was established in 1957 to honor men and women, past and present, who by their deeds as players, coaches, officials and/or contributors, and by the example of their lives, personify the great contribution of lacrosse to our way of life. More than 325 lacrosse greats are honored in the hall of fame, which is located with the Lacrosse Museum at U.S. Lacrosse headquarters in Baltimore, Md.
