Kathryn Smith
SPORTS COACH (Unkown)
Kathryn Smith is the first woman to become a
full-time assistant coach in the American
National Football League. She says, "You
don't set out to be a trailblazer, and I didn't
know that that's where my path was going to
lead me." As a child, Smith helped her father
as he coached high school football. During the
2016-2017 season, she served as Special
Teams Quality Control Coach for the Buffalo
Bills. Often the only woman in the room during
meetings, Smith notes, "It's
interesting because with the players there
wasn't a lot of focus on gender at all.
The players want to win, they want to play,
they want to be their best. So, to them, if they
feel that you're someone that can help them,
they embrace it."
Florence Kendall
PHYSIOTHERAPIST (1910 - 2006)
Florence Kendall dedicated nearly seventy
years of her life to physical therapy. She
played a major role in the original bill made
law in 1947, that established the practice of
physical therapy in Maryland, USA. She
taught at the University of Maryland and was
a Biomechanics instructor at the School of
Nursing, Johns Hopkins Hospital. Kendall
also spent many years treating the victims of
polio. Her book, 'Muscle Testing and Function'
originally published in 1949, is the "gold
standard" for musculoskeletal assessment.
Kendall is a founding member of the American
Physical Therapy Association of Maryland and
served as its President. Her work as a
clinician, researcher and lecturer has earned
her many awards and honorary degrees.
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