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Laura DuPont
Tennis
Inducted: 2018
- Attended Greensboro College for two years before graduating from the University of North Carolina
- Won the national collegiate women’s singles title in 1970, the school’s first female athlete to win a major national title in any sport
- Played on the professional tennis tour for 12 years and was a standout in both singles and doubles
- Ranked as high as ninth in the world