Inga Volger
Inga Heads Girls’ Athletic Association
Inga Volger entered Acadia in 1922 as a freshman-sophomore and soon became known for her athletic skill, especially in basketball–popular among women students in the early 1920s. “There were 13 women in the class of ‘25, and ten of us played basketball.” Volger played guard, which under the rules then used for women’s basketball, meant she could not score. However, her skills were recognized. “As a player on the Intercollegiate team she won her athletic “A,” and in her Senior year she was president of the Girls’ Athletic Association....”
During the early 1920s, from the time they first entered the intercollegiate basketball league in 1921, the Acadia women enjoyed considerable success. Each of the years Volger was on the team, Acadia won the Maritime women’s basketball championship. “The Acadia Co-eds in their first game of the season completely outclassed the Halifax YWCA in a game of basketball....” by a score of 49 to 27. Later that same month, they beat Mt Allison University of New Brunswick 36 to 11. At the end of the 1925 season, the Athenaeum commented that Inga and her teammates “brought the Basketball championship once more to Acadia, and have exhibited a brand of basketball rarely seen in women’s athletics. This is the third successive win for the Acadia Co-eds, who this year not only won the championship but also were victors in every game, both exhibition and intercollegiate though the usual double schedule was played.”
After graduation in 1925, at age 19, Volger taught school at Riverport, Nova Scotia, then married and moved out of the province.
(Acadia Bulletin, Winter 1993, 17; Acadia Athenaeum June 1925; March 1925, 59-60; April 1925, 55.)
