[3][2] Her father, Max Rosenfeld, operated a junk business and her mother Sarah, who gave birth to three more girls, ran the home.

Fanny attended Central School and Barrie Collegiate Institute, where she excelled in sports, including basketball, softball, lacrosse, hockey, and tennis.

[1][6] Rosenfeld died on November 13, 1969,[1] in Toronto and is buried at Lambton Mills Cemetery in Humber Valley Village.

[7] Rosenfeld played and competed in numerous sports, including track and field, ice hockey, basketball, fastball, softball, lacrosse, golf, speed skating, and tennis.

[citation needed] Rosenfeld competed on a championship softball team after debuting as a track and field athlete at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

[citation needed] In 1923, Rosenfeld's softball teammates encouraged her to enter a track competition at a sporting carnival in Beaverton.

[2] Later that year, she began training more intensely and competed at the Canadian National Exhibition,[2][6] as well as Ontario’s first women's track and field championship.

"[3] In 1934, Rosenfeld was coach of the Canadian women's track and field team at the British Commonwealth Games in London, England.

[13] From 1937 to 1939, she also served as president of the Dominion Women's Amateur Hockey Association, , following Myrtle Cook-McGowan and succeeded by Mary Dunn.

... We are taking up the sword, and high time it is in defense of our so-called athletic bodies to give the lie to those pen flourishers who depict us not as paragons of feminine physique, beauty and health, but rather as Amazons and ugly ducklings all because we have become sports-minded."