OBU Athletics Hall of Fame
Pat Grant of Cushing, Oklahoma, won the Oklahoma women's amateur golf championship in each of her four years on Bison Hill (1939-42).
Grant brought significant recognition to the school through her tournament and match play, and she was a student assistant in the OBU women's physical education program and coached and played on the women's golf team.
She graduated from OBU in 1942, early in World War II, and enlisted in the Women's Army Corps. She was a career officer, rising from the rank of private to lieutenant colonel.
While in the Army, she returned to Oklahoma to win the state women's amateur title again in 1946—giving her a string of five consecutive championships because no tournaments were held from 1943-45—and also in 1949.
She played in the National Open, the National Amateur, and the Title Holder's Golf Tournament many times. She won the women's division of the Third Army Golf Tournament several times. She won the Second Army's women's division; the European Army championship; and the Fourth Army title.
She retired from the Army in 1965, earned a law degree, and practiced law until retiring in 1995.
Grant was the first woman inducted into the OBU Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 2010 she was inducted into the Women's Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame.
She lived in Cortez, Colorado, until her death.