Southern Connecticut State University Athletics

Mary Anne O’Connor, ’75, was a member of the 1976 Olympic women’s basketball team which won a silver medal at Montreal. At Southern, she helped lead the Owls to third-place finishes in the AIAW Division I basketball championships in 1973 and 1974 and to fourth place in 1975. She was a preseason All-American pick in 1974-75 and earned Southern’s Outstanding Scholar Athlete Award in 1975. She went on to play basketball in France, leading her team to eight French Cup championships in nine seasons. She was named France’s Sportswoman of the Year in 1985.