Mary Marshall spent 40 years coaching youth sports, ever since graduating from high school in the early 1950s.
A single mother, Marshall, who found herself divorced at an early age, raised 7 children on her own, which in itself is no small accomplishment.
“And they all went to college,” she said with well-deserved pride.
Marshall, who was quite athletic herself, had a passion for sports at an early age, coaching softball, soccer and baseball even before graduating from the Lincoln Institute in Simpsonville in 1952.