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Mary Pierce
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Mary Louise Pierce was born February 7, 1872, in Solomon, Kansas. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Winfield, IA where she completed her elementary and secondary education. She taught in the Winfield, IA, schools, 1888-1889, before attending Kansas State Agricultural College, 1889-1891. She was named Principal of Wayland High School in Iowa, 1891-1892. She married Gilbert J. Van Zile on December 28, 1892. After his death in 1899, Van Zile attended Iowa State College, earning her teacher's diploma in 1904.
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In 1996, Pierce suffered a series of setbacks, including her split with Nick Bollettieri after failing to defend her title at the 1996 Australian Open. Aside from a runner-up finish in Amelia Island, Florida and a semifinal finish in Hamburg, the highlight of the year for Pierce was her first appearance in the Wimbledon quarterfinals.
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Mary Pierce is a humorist and author, writing humor for Focus on the Family, the Focus Over Fifty website, Quality of Life Times, and other publications. An entertaining keynote speaker, Mary’s been sharing laughs with community, church, and retreat audiences since 1996, and has cohosted a monthly radio program. She and her husband, Terry, live in Wisconsin, where she dreams of getting her act together...someday.
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Following her split from her father in 1993, Pierce was coached by Nick Bollettieri, whose tennis academy she had briefly attended as a teenager in 1988. Her brother David was ... Pierce's regular coach until 2006. She has recently become reconciled with father Jim and occasionally does practice sessions with him.
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PARIS -- If anybody has been the soap opera heroine of tennis, it's Mary Pierce. Her principal stage is the bronze-toned earthen rectangle within Stade Roland Garros, where she has played many roles. Some gallant. Some rousing the public ire.
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Mary PIERCE was born about 1792 in Hartford, Washington Co., NY. (18953) She died on 4 Jun 1877 in Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence Co., NY. (18954) Parents: Daniel PIERCE and Mary HIX.
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