[4] She played for the University of Southern California during her collegiate career and led the Trojans to a national championship.

[6] Beginning when she was 10 years old, Margolin played in numerous USTA junior tournaments, achieving a rank of No.

1 women's singles player at the University of Southern California, where she went undefeated during her freshman and sophomore years in their dual home matches.

At the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Israel — a competition for Israeli and Jewish athletes — Margolin won gold, silver (in women's singles, losing to Dana Gilbert), and bronze medals at various tennis events.

[9] She and Peter Rennert won the gold medal in mixed doubles, defeating South Africa's Ilana Kloss and Graham Silverman.

Margolin won her first and only tour championship, the 1978 WTA's Women in Tennis International Singles Champion held in San Antonio, Texas.

Margolin was consistently ranked in the top 40 between 1980 and 1984, and would go on to be a Wimbledon Plate quarter finalist and a semi-finalist in the Wells Fargo Open in San Diego.

She continued to compete on the tour and participate in 25 grand slam championships, including the 1978 Wimbledon and U.S. Open mixed doubles, in which she was partnered with John McEnroe.

Margolin self-published a book of poetry called Thoughts Allowed ... A Journey into a Woman's Mind, Heart & Soul in 2009.

Currently, she works with her husband as a health coach in their hiking, biking, rock climbing, and tennis company, Trails by Potter.

Peanut Louie Ilana Kloss Sherry Acker Paula Smith A. M. Fernández Rayni Fox Greer Stevens R. Tomanová Kate Latham R. Tomanová Penny Johnson Lindsay Morse R. Fairbank B. Hallquist Anne White Paula Smith Anne White Kim Sands Nancy Yeargin Trey Lewis Trey Lewis L. Thompson Peanut Louie B. Jordan Peanut Louie Pam Whytcross G. Ohaco K. Skronská Kim Jones Kathy Jordan Helena Manset Virginia Wade Helena Manset R Mentz Beth Norton Paula Smith The result is on the right.

Margolin organized the first Ojai Tennis Marathon in 2000, an event in which participants attempt to play fifty games of tennis in a single day to raise funding for the Ojai Valley Youth Foundation, of which Margolin's husband, Ian Potter, is on the board of directors.