Mary (Bair) Schafer Clayton was instrumental in returning competitive girls’ basketball to Hancock County in the 1960s. She played on the county championship team at Liberty in 1938, the year before a state-level decision to discontinue interscholastic girls’ basketball because the games were too strenuous for the girl’s health. Twenty years later, teaching physical education at Arlington, she organized informal games with nearby schools. Attitudes toward competition were changing and, after she began teaching (1961) at Findlay High, varsity games were scheduled against college as well as high school opponents. The Findlay team she coached for five years lost only one game, to then-Bluffton College where she became a health and PE instructor and women’s basketball, volleyball and tennis coach in 1967. She retired from teaching in 1974 and, two years later, began playing competitive shuffleboard with her husband Eldon Schafer in North Fort Myers, Fla. In 1990, she married Jim Clayton, and they became active in national- and international-level shuffleboard, serving as team captains for seven years on U.S. national teams and were inducted into the USA Shuffleboard Association Hall of Fame in 2001. They were elected to the international and Ohio shuffleboard halls of fame in 2007.