3 May 2019
Rosabelle Sinclair was educated at St Leonards School between 1906 and 1910. She was a member of first Scottish international team in 1913 and she also played in 1914 and 1917. She successfully started women’s lacrosse in the USA in 1926 at Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. By 1928, she had spread the game to girls and woman in the Philadelphia area and helping to start high school teams and woman’s clubs around Baltimore. The game soon spread to New York and Boston, and in 1931, the United States Women’s Lacrosse Association was formed. In 1992 she was the first female to be inducted into the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
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