Ginny Hofmann, Gina Buggy, and Barb Clarke, local athletes and coaches who have greatly influenced athletic administration over the last four decades, are ready to retire, writes Phil Anastasia for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Between them, these three women have more than 100 years working in athletic administration at secondary schools in Southeastern Pennsylvania and have managed to change the perceptions over what is considered to be a male-dominated profession.

“We all came along in an era where there were limited opportunities for women,” said Buggy. “Sports taught us that we could do anything that a boy could do.”

Hofmann, who fell in love with sports during her years at Cheltenham Junior High, became an athletic director at Germantown Academy in 1983. Buggy, who was a star athlete at Plymouth Whitemarsh High and Ursinus College, has been an athletic administrator at Episcopal Academy since 1986. While Clarke has served as Merion Mercy athletic director since 1975.

Now that the landscape in their profession has changed significantly, all three trailblazers have decided to retire at the end of this school year and see where life will take them next.

Read more about the three retirees at The Philadelphia Inquirer by clicking here.

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