Pepper attended Beaver College (later renamed Arcadia University) in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
[1][2][3] She also played on the school's basketball, tennis, softball, and riflery teams.
[4] She played for the U.S. national field hockey team on multiple occasions between 1946 and 1963.
[5][6][7][8] In 1988, she became one of the charter inductees into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame.
She was also inducted into the Arcadia University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013.