Dorcas Susan Butt (born March 19, 1938) is a Canadian sports psychologist and former tennis player.[1][2]
Raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Butt was the number one ranked Canadian player for three years and won a national championship in doubles. She won through to the singles third round of the 1961 Wimbledon Championships as a qualifier, before losing a centre court match to the top seeded Sandra Reynolds in 100 degree heat.[3] In 1967 she made her playing debut for the Canada Federation Cup team and from 1970 to 1972 was the team captain.[4] She is an inductee into both the Canada Tennis Hall of Fame (2000) and British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame (2023).[5]
Butt holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Chicago and was a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia for many years. In 1973 she married colleague Liam Finn, the Dean of Applied Science.[6]