Barry University Athletics

Elizabeth ?Betty? Peppard, who attended Barry from 1947-51, was one of the university’?s first successful athletes. Although Barry did not field intercollegiate teams at the time, she was an individual co-medalist at the 1950 Women’?s National Intercollegiate Golf Tournament. Later, she was an accomplished amateur golfer, winning the Florida East Coast Amateur title in 1959. That same year, she won the Palm Beach Championship, was second low amateur at the Women’?s Titleholder Tournament, and reached the quarterfinals of the Women’?s Western Amateur. Overall, she spent three years on the winter circuit, and also played in several summer events. She once reached the fourth round of the National Amateur.

Peppard currently resides in Canton, Ohio, where she is a member of the Women’?s Regional Affairs Committee of the U.S. Golf Association. She has been one of the top amateurs in Ohio since the 1960s, reaching the State Championship Final five times and winning the State title twice.