Wendy Toms which was then unique for a female. She was the first woman to be included on the list of Football League assistant referees when she was chosen for the 1994-95 season, and became a referee in the Football Conference two seasons later, creating another precedent when she took charge of the game between Kidderminster and Nuneaton Borough her first Conference match as referee. Almost a year after that, she operated as an assistant referee in the Premier League, again, the first female ever to do so. Two years after her debut in that league, and having 'run the line' for
Wendy Ey Paper on Women in Sport" as part of its annual Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport since 1998. Wendy Ey Wendy Ey (1938–1997), born Wendy Hayes, was an Australian track and field athlete, administrator, academic, author and feminist. She was an athletics sprint and hurdles champion from 1954 until 1960 and a Commonwealth Games silver medalist in Cardiff, Wales in 1958. Ey also excelled at squash and hockey. Ey continued to be an active sport participant all her life and was a master’s world champion in athletics. Ey was a lecturer and researcher in Physical Education at the University