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University of British Columbia.
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Betty Baxter
Edit Profileathlete activist and politician
Career
Betty Baxter (born 1952 in Brooks, Alberta) is a Canadian athlete, activist and politician. However, she was fired from that role in 1982 after the media began to report rumours that she was lesbian. Prior to being named coach of the national team, Baxter was a women"s volleyball coach at the University of Ottawa, and was named the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union"s coach of the year.
She also cofounded the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and the National Coaching School for Women.
Baxter ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in Vancouver Centre in the 1993 federal election, in a high-profile race against Prime Minister Kim Campbell, but was not elected.
Membership
She was a member of the women"s national volleyball team at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and was later named the team"s head coach in 1979. Baxter was not actually out as lesbian at the time, but subsequently came out and served as a board member of the 1990 Gay Games in Vancouver.
