SANDY BARBOUR '77
Perched comfortably on a settee in her cozy, yet elegant offices at the Bryce Jordan Center's
impressive facilities in bucolic Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, Penn State Athletic Director Sandy Barbour '77 smiles coyly when asked about the ways in which her humble beginnings as a field hockey player on the muddy fields along Maple Avenue have shaped her phenomenal career in collegiate athletics over the last forty years. Growing up as the daughter of Naval aviator
Henry and avid community volunteer Nancy, Barbour and her family moved every three years, calling Virginia, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Belgium (among others) home along the way. These globe-trotting adventures brought the family back to Annapolis from Brussels in 1974, when
Sandy enrolled at Severn as a sophomore. Among other valuable lessons, a military childhood 44
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