Mary Clouston Dive (26 June 1913 – 10 September 1997) was a scientist and an

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er who played seven women's

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between 1948 and 1951. Dive graduated from

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with a science degree and was employed by the

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(CSIRO) for most of her life. She was usually known as Mollie Dive or, less often, Molly Dive. Dive was awarded the

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in the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to the sport of women's hockey and women's cricket".

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