Bloss MargaretVarner

American athlete and professor of physical education who excelled in three distinctly different racket sports: badminton, squash, and tennis. She is the only person to have represented the USA at the highest level of international competition in all three sports, and is the only person to have won the U.S. national singles championships of both badminton and squash or to have been inducted into the respective U.S. halls of fame of both sports. After her career in racket sports ended, Varner would gradually immerse herself in a different kind of sports venture. Her marriage to horse trainer Gerald Bloss in the late 1960s produced a son, Leigh (born 1971). It also piqued Varners interest in the breeding and training of thoroughbred racehorses. After her husbands death she pursued this interest seriously with her life partner Margaret Osborne duPont. They formed the duPont-Bloss Stables, near El Paso, and often gave their horses names taken from the argot of tennis and other racket sports. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less