Bio

Without question, Judith Devlin Hashman ranks among the best badminton players of all time. Not just at Goucher. Not just in Maryland or the United States. One of the best in the world.

Devlin began playing badminton when she was seven years old under the tutelage of her father, J. Frank Devlin, one of the world's top players of his day.

In 1954 at age 18, she won her first women's world singles championship, becoming both the youngest person and the first American to do it. Prior to that, she placed first an amazing six times at the 18-and-under U.S. junior nationals.

During her playing career, Judy Devlin won no fewer than 83 national or international titles, including 12 U.S. women's singles championships, 12 U.S. women's doubles championships, eight U.S. mixed doubles championships, 10 world women's singles championships and seven world women's doubles championships.

She played at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles on U.S. Uber Cup teams that captured successive world championships in 1957, 1960 and 1963. 

Judith Devin Hashman was inducted into the U.S. Badminton Hall of Fame in 1963, the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and the International Badminton Federation Hall of Fame in 1997.

Badminton was not the only sport in which Judy Devlin excelled. She was a member of the US Women's Lacrosse Team from 1954-60 and also a member of the Junior Wightman Tennis Cup Squad.