Constance Mary Katherine Applebee is best known for introducing field hockey in the United States.
10 Facts About Constance Applebee
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Constance Applebee was a co-founder of the American Field Hockey Association and served as its head for 20 years.
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Constance Applebee founded Sportswoman magazine and was the athletic director at Bryn Mawr College for 24 years.
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Constance Applebee was invited to Vassar College by Harriet Ballintine, the school's athletic director, and visited Wellesley College, Bryn Mawr College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and Radcliffe College, and Wheaton Female Seminary.
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Constance Applebee made return visits to each of those schools and the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics to coach field hockey through the spring of 1904.
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In September 1922, Constance Applebee established an annual three-week camp for intensive field hockey instruction at Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, on the grounds of Camp Tegawitha.
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Constance Applebee was more commonly known by her nickname, "The Apple", and on January 26,1981, she died at 107 at a New Milton, Hampshire, England nursing home.
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Constance Applebee is buried at St John the Baptist Church at Burley in the New Forest.
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Constance Applebee was active in establishing lacrosse as a women's sport in the United States of America.
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Constance Applebee was inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.