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Rita Shugart

{{short description|American bridge player}}

Rita Shugart (née Kennedy) is an American bridge player.

Shugart won her first North American Bridge Championship in 1998.[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/05/arts/bridge-rita-shugart-70-s-dropout-wins-a-title-at-nationals.html New York Times - 70s dropout wins a title at nationals]

She won the Reisinger, arguably the most difficult of all the North American Bridge Championships to win, in consecutive years, 1998, 1999, playing four handed.[http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/real-bridge/ Henry Bethe - final day of the Reisinger Board-a-Match is the hardest day of bridge that exists] Shugart is the only female to win the event in over 60 years.

Bridge accomplishments

=Wins=

|title = Mitchell BAM Winners

|publisher = American Contract Bridge League

|url = http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2013/03/bulletins/db3.pdf

|page = 8

|date = 2013-12-01

|accessdate = 2014-10-17

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163618/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2013/03/bulletins/db3.pdf

|archivedate = 2014-10-21

}}

|title = Reisinger Winners

|publisher = American Contract Bridge League

|url = http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2013/03/bulletins/db8.pdf

|page = 6

|date = 2013-12-06

|accessdate = 2014-10-17

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163719/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2013/03/bulletins/db8.pdf

|archivedate = 2014-10-21

}}

=Runners-up=

|title = Mixed BAM Previous Winners

|publisher = American Contract Bridge League

|url = http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db7.pdf

|page = 14

|date = 2014-07-24

|accessdate = 2014-10-17

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141021163650/http://www.acbl.org/nabc/2014/02/bulletins/db7.pdf

|archivedate = 2014-10-21

}}

References

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External links

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Category:American contract bridge players

Category:Living people

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Place of birth missing (living people)

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