A portrait photograph of Diane Potter (1963). She is wearing her Springfield College warm-up jacket. On the back is a note by Frank Wolcott. Diane Potter was Springfield College’s first gymnastics and softball coach. She led the women's softball team for an amazing twenty-one years. From the bottom up, coach Potter is considered to be a leading pioneer for softball in the New England area. Springfield College’s softball field was named Potter Field in her honor. In 1989, she became the second woman inducted into the Springfield College Athletics Hall of Fame, and during that academic year, she served as the Springfield Distinguished Professor of Humanics.
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