Kathlyn Kelley

Kathlyn Kelley Owens (August 30, 1919 – September 12, 2006) was an American athlete who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

[5] Despite having made the team, however, she needed to raise $500 to fund her trip, which she found difficult owing to the Great Depression.

Davis, however, called upon South Carolina state senator Harry I. Hughes to convince the legislature, successfully, to pay for her journey.

Prior to leaving for Germany she dined with the 1932 champion Jean Shiley[4] and, during the Olympics, she roomed with gold medalists Helen Stephens and Betty Robinson.

She then took up women's basketball, which she played until the birth of her first daughter in 1942,[4] and eventually settled with a career as a beautician.