Sports

Growing up in Baie D’Urfé, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, Susie was an early pioneer as a female in organized sports. She won the Quebec Junior Sailing Championship and was the first female entrant in the Canadian Junior Sailing Championship. Susie was profiled by Canadian Broadcasting Company (“CBC”) in the 2006 People’s History of Hockey documentary series, since she was the first girl player in a Canadian boy’s hockey league and quite a goal scorer as well. At Colby College in Waterville, Maine, Susie was the founder of the women’s ice hockey program and participated in the first inter-collegiate women’s ice hockey game ever played in the United States. While at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, Susie was an activist in opening doors for female students to compete in college athletics and she coached a youth hockey team. She coached youth hockey in Portland, Maine and suburban Chicago for several years after graduating from law school. In 1981, she was the helmsman on a sailboat that won “Boat of the Year” in the Lake Michigan yacht racing circuit.

Susie and Ted currently sail, canoe, kayak, hike, and cycle in the Ozarks where Bentonville is located. She is a member of the Women’s Sports Foundation in New York.