We have recently been informed about the passing of Pat Green, a lady with a significant contribution to athletics.
Pat Green joined a vibrant Pembroke H&AC in the early 1950s. Not many clubs catered for female athletes at that time but Pembroke in those post war years was a very progressive club and had a small but active female section. Pat was one of the early pioneers of the Pembroke female section holding a number of posts within the club however it will be for her role as an administrator she will probably be best remembered.
Pat along with her husband Jimmy were prominent members of the Lancashire and Northern women’s athletic association and she was responsible for organising a number of the local women’s championship from the 1960s until the amalgamation with the men’s association in the 1990s.
Following the ‘Turner Report’ which recommended the amalgamation of the men’s and women’s athletics in the UK Pat again played a prominent role. There was a fear within women’s athletics that they might be overtaken by the men’ section and Pat along with a number of others negotiated hard and long to get guaranteed female places on committees in the new organisations. It wasn’t long after this that we had our own amalgamation and Pat was a keen supporter of the coming together of Sefton and her beloved Pembroke. Pat was at this time chair of the newly formed Northern Athletics as well as UK junior team manager so she helped enhance our club’s profile in the early days of LPS.
However Pat struggled with the new structure in LPS especially collective responsibility and unfortunately after many years of service she moved to Liverpool Harriers but her and Jimmy remained life members of our club. After the death of Jimmy, Pat stepped back from athletics as age began to take its toll.
Pat will be best remembered as a person who got things done and delivered on her promises. Our thoughts are with her family.
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