Evelyn FURTSCH

Because both Elizabeth Wilde and Louise Stokes, who finished ahead of her at the Final Trials, were not selected for the Olympics, Evelyn Furtsch of the Los Angeles AC was perhaps fortunate to have won a place on the relay team for the Los Angeles Games. The only time she placed in an AAU championship was in 1931, when she finished second in the 100 yards. After the Olympics she attended Santa Ana College for two years, but there was no track team and her opportunities for training in that era were limited, so she ended her track career. She and her husband, Joe Ojeda, ran a real estate brokerage in the Santa Ana, California area. She was elected to the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame in California in 1985 and in 1984, received the Ralph Clark Distinguished Citizen Award in Santa Ana. She died only five weeks ahead of her 101st birthday.

Personal Best: 100 – 12.2 (1932).