Helen Willis Roark

Considered by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time...winner of eight Wimbledon Championships between 1927 and 1938...winner of seven United States singles titles from 1923 until 1929...winner of 10 Wightman Cup matches throughout her career...first woman to receive an athletic letter from the University of California...inducted into the University of California Women's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1978...enshrined in the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1981.