From 1912 to 1921, she coached at Sweet Briar College, as director of physical training; under her leadership, Sweet Briar students played in the first women's intercollegiate hockey, basketball, and lacrosse games ever held in Virginia.
[1] Cara Gascoigne attended Queen Anne's School, Caversham in 1907,[2][3] and graduated from the Bergman-Österberg Physical Training College in Dartford, Kent, where she was a classmate of fellow lacrosse coach Rosabelle Sinclair.
[10][11] She also played violin in Sweet Briar's orchestra,[4] appeared in campus dramatics,[12][13] and taught lacrosse at a girls' summer camp in Hancock, New Hampshire.
[14] She coached her students in Virginia's first women's intercollegiate sports events, in field hockey and basketball.
[15][16] After 1923, she returned to England and taught at her alma mater Queen Anne's, where she continued to coach women's lacrosse and play violin "in several orchestras",[17] and in Eastbourne rode her bicycle regularly into her eighties.