Barbara Boutwell earned three letters in basketball, two in volleyball and one in tennis and was president of Women’s Varsity B at Bluffton.
She received her bachelor’s degree in 1968 with a major in elementary education and her master’s from Azusa Pacific University in 1987.
Boutwell taught fifth grade and coached at Wapakoneta City Schools from 1968-85. During that time she initiated and coached girls’ basketball, volleyball, track and tennis and boys’ tennis. She was Western Buckeye League tennis coach of the year with a 14-0 record in 1981.
Boutwell also coached tennis at Bluffton in 1981 and 1982, was tennis instructor at Orchard Hill Tennis Club in Lima from 1983-85 and at OSU Lima in 1985. As a player she won 125 first or second place trophies from 1969-85 and was ranked fourth in the Western Tennis Association (a seven state area) in 1983-84.
Boutwell then went on to teach fifth grade, along with seventh and ninth grade mathematics, in Fontana, Calif.
 1st Place Women's Doubles
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 Boutwell's tennis bracelet
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