Penny Christine Werthner-Bales[1] (born July 5, 1951 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a retired female track and field athlete, who represented Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the women's 1.500 metres.

Penny Werthner, Dean of Kineisiology at the University of Calgary, is married to John Bales, President of the Coaching Association of Canada.

She joins us after spending the past 12 years at the University of Ottawa where she was Director and Associate Dean, School of Human Kinetics from 2011–2012.

Having come late in her career to academics, Werthner is a kinesiologist with excellent leadership skills and a perfect match for optimizing the potential in our kinesiology faculty.

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