{{short description|American volleyball player}} {{other people}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox volleyball biography | name = Mary Perry | image = | caption = | fullname = Mary Margaret Perry | nationality = | birth_date = {{birth date|1943|1|3}} | birth_place = Burbank, California, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|6|3|1943|1|3}} | death_place = Medford, Oregon, U.S. | height = 173 cm | weight = | spike = | block = | position = | years = | clubs = | nationalyears = | nationalteam = | medaltemplates-title = Medal record | medaltemplates-expand = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's volleyball }} {{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }} {{MedalCompetition | Pan American Games }} {{MedalSilver | 1963 São Paulo | Team }} {{MedalGold | 1967 Winnipeg | Team }} }}
'''Mary Margaret Perry''' (January 3, 1943 – June 3, 2012)<ref name="death">{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings-20120609-story.html |title=Obituaries Audrey Young, Mary Perry |access-date=June 14, 2012 |work=LA Times}}</ref> was an American volleyball player. She competed at the 1964 and the 1968 Summer Olympics.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/mary-perry-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418122304/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/mary-perry-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |title=Mary Perry |accessdate=June 14, 2012}}</ref> She died at home of the rare disease, multiple system atrophy.
==Early life== Perry was born in Burbank, California, in 1943. Her passion for volleyball began when she enrolled in Pierce Junior College and grew after she formed the South California volleyball team, the Renegades.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://usavolleyball.org/about-usa-volleyball/usa-volleyball-awards-pages/all-time-great-volleyball-player-award/2009-all-time-great-player-mary-perry |title=Self Bio at the USA Volleyball Portal |accessdate=June 19, 2012}}</ref>
==Olympics== In 1963, Perry was chosen for the US Women's Volleyball Team to compete at the Pan American Games in São Paulo, Brazil. The team won the gold medal. At the top of her sport throughout the 1960s, she went on to participate in two Olympiads in 1964 in Tokyo and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
==Life after the Olympics== After graduating from Cal State Northridge with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1971, Perry taught and coached in Honolulu and at Cal State Hayward, where she earned her master's degrees in P.E. and Education.
Perry moved to Ashland, Oregon in 1986 and assisted coaching women's volleyball at Southern Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University). She received her third master's degree in psychology from S.O.S.C. and coached senior citizens in fitness through Elderhostel. She produced the acclaimed fitness video, "Early Morning Stretch" and worked with geriatric patients through Jackson County Mental Health until her retirement in 2002.
==Awards== In 1984, Perry was inducted into the Cal State Northridge Athletics Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gomatadors.com/sports/w-volley/2011-12/releases/20120609u4pw38 |title=Cal State Northridge Mourns the Passing of Former Volleyball Great Mary Perry |accessdate=June 19, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615075332/http://www.gomatadors.com/sports/w-volley/2011-12/releases/20120609u4pw38 |archivedate=June 15, 2012 }}</ref> In 2009, she was awarded the Flo Hyman All-Time Great Player Award and was inducted into the U.S. Volleyball Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://usavolleyball.org/news/article/13042 |title=2009 USA Volleyball’s Highest Award |accessdate=June 19, 2012}}</ref>
==Death== Perry died at home of the rare disease, multiple system atrophy. At first she was diagnosed as having Parkinson's disease but that was later defined as Multiple System Atrophy, aka Parkinson plus syndrome.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hillcrestmortuary.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1506252&fh_id=13352 |title=Official memorial and bio |accessdate=June 19, 2012 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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