Bio

Melbourne lost only once in singles all season, won the Pacific Coast Conference singles title and teamed with Paige Ready as the No. 1 doubles team in leading the Comets to a 21-0 record and the state community college team championship under coach Nan Haugen in 1986. Melbourne Hayes graduated Magna Cum Laude from USC, where she was captain of the women's crew team and scholar Athlete of the Year, and received her M.D. Degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland in 1991. A former member of the All-Marine and All-Navy tennis teams, she retired as Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserves after 26 1/2 years of service in 2012, following a military career as a flight surgeon and physician. Dr. Melbourne Hays is currently a staff physician at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport, New York and at the Communituy Nased Outpatient Clinch at the Riverhead County Center in Riverhead, New York. Because of a conflict with her medical practice in New York, Dr. Melbourne Hays was unable to attend the dinner. (Her father, Bob Melbourne, accepted on her behalf)