Editing Lillian Copeland (section)

==Early and personal life==
Copeland was born Lillian Drossin to [[Polish-Jewish]] immigrants in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/12/02/105890993.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|title=210 Cited for Work in Jewish Who's Who – Publication Lists Those Who Made Noted Achievements in Many Fields During 1932.|website=The New York Times|date=December 2, 1932}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LVZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22LIllian+Copeland%22+%22Minnie+Drasnin%22|title=Great Athletes|date= 2010|publisher=Salem Press |volume= 5|author= Rafer Johnson| isbn =978-1587654879}}</ref> Her mother was from [[Grodno]] (now in [[Belarus]]).<ref name="auto3">Sheldon Anderson (2017). [https://books.google.com/books?id=3sQpDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22LIllian+Copeland%22+%22grodno%22&pg=PA67 ''The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh; The Greatest Female Athlete of Her Time'']</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/copeland-lillian|title=Lillian Copeland|website=Jewish Women's Archive}}</ref> Her father died when she was young, and after her mother remarried they moved to [[Los Angeles, California]], and changed their surnames to Drossin.<ref name=r1/> Her stepfather was Abraham Copeland, the manager of a fruit and produce company.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2020/05/21/games-people-play-a-press-photo-of-worlds-record-shot-put-and-discus-thrower-lillian-copeland-los-angeles-21-may-1926/|title=Games People Play: A Press Photo of Track and Field Star Lillian Copeland, Los Angeles, 21 May 1926|date=May 22, 2020|website=The Homestead|author= Paul R. Spitzzeri }}</ref> She lived in [[Boyle Heights, Los Angeles]], and later in [[Pasadena, California]], and attended [[Los Angeles High School]], graduating in 1923.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto5"/><ref name=nyt1>{{Cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/08/13/96366177.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|title=Miss Copeland Sets Mark inShot-Put – Breaks World's Record and Also Wins Two Other Events in International Meet – American Girls Triumph – Take Four First Places Out of Nine at Brussels – Miss Washburn Is Victor|date=August 13, 1928|website=The New York Times}}</ref>

She attended the [[University of Southern California]], where she was a member of the Xi chapter of [[Alpha Epsilon Phi]] sorority and joined the track & field team in 1924.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.franbecque.com/lillian-copeland-alpha-epsilon-phi-notablesororitywomen-whm2019/|title=Lillian Copeland, Alpha Epsilon Phi, #NotableSororityWomen, #WHM2019|first=Fran Becque|last=Ph.D|date=March 28, 2019}}</ref><ref name="auto5"/> While at USC, she won every track event she entered.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.oiselle.com/pages/lillian-copeland|title=Lillian Copeland|website=Oiselle}}</ref> She had a role as a basketball player in the silent 1927 comedy film ''[[The Fair Co-Ed]]''.<ref name="auto2"/> She received a BA degree in political science in 1928.<ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto1"/>  She was the first Olympian who was an alumna of Los Angeles High School and the University of Southern California.<ref name=Jews/>