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Lometa Ruth Odom was an American women's basketball player and coach. Odom played for Wayland Baptist from 1953 to 1956 during which the team began a streak of 131 consecutive victories. Odom was a member of the U.S. women's national team which won the Gold Medal in basketball at the 1955 Pan American Games. In 2011 she was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
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- ↑ "2009 Accountability Rating System". Texas Education Agency. Archived from the original on 2015-10-25.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
