In the early days of girls’ high school sports in Ventura County, Lynn was one of the brightest
Stars.
Lynn was a member of Ventura’s first three girls‘ varsity basketball teams. Those three teams
had a cumulative 46-2 record. Ventura lost in the 1975 CIF Division 4A section semifinals. Team
captain as a senior for the 1975-76 season, Lynn helped Ventura become the county’s first girls’
basketball section champion, beating its five opponents by an average margin of 25 points and
completing the program’s only unbeaten season at 23-0. She was a first-team All-CIF selection.
Lynn was also the captain of the tennis team and earned first-team Channel League selection in
1976.
Her best sport, however, was softball. A shortstop and pitcher, Lynn was a member of three
Ventura teams that participated in the Miss Softball America National tournament. Ventura won
titles in 1974 and 1975, and placed runner-up in 1976. Lynn made the all-tournament team each
year and was selected as MVP in 1976.
Four decades after playing her last game for the UC Davis women’s softball program in 1980,
the four-time all-conference player still ranks No. 4 for career batting average (.377) and fifth for
career slugging percentage (.552). She missed most of the 1980 season while interning at the
National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Maryland.
Lynn worked as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist from 1985-2004, and she married James L.
Losch in 1991. In 2000, Lynn was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer; after a 13-year battle
with the disease, she passed away in 2013. Lynn is survived by Jim, son Ryan Henry and his wife Cherise, and grandchildren Colton, Rhett and Remi Lynn.