| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's Basketball | ||
| Pan American Games | ||
 | 1959 Chicago USA | Team Competition |
| 1963 Brazil | Team Competition |
Rita Horky is a former women's basketball player and coach from Blissfield, Michigan. Horky was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.
Horky played for Nashville Business College. She also played for the Iowa Wesleyan College Tigerettes, an AAU team in 1959 and 1960. [1] The 5 foot 11 inch guard was named AAU All-American five times. [2] She was a Pan American gold medalist twice (1959 and 1963), [3] [4] the USA's leading scorer in 1959 with 11.9 points per game, [5] and their 3rd leading scorer in 1963 with 7.7 points/game. [3] Her team finished 4th in the World Championship in 1964 [6] and 11th in 1967. [7]
Horky coached the Northern Illinois women's basketball team for one year in 1982–83, leading them to a 13–14 record.
In 2000, Horky was elected to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Knoxville, Tennessee. [8] She was elected to the Iowa Wesleyan Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. [9]
Carol Ann Blazejowski is an American retired professional women's basketball player and the former president and General Manager of the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Blazejowski was inducted in the inaugural class at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
Sue Gunter was an American women's college basketball coach. She is best known as the head coach of the Louisiana State University (LSU) Lady Tigers basketball team. Gunter was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.
Kimberly Duane Mulkey is the head women's basketball coach at LSU. A Pan-American gold medalist in 1983 and Olympic gold medalist in 1984, she became the first person in NCAA women's basketball history to win a national championship as a player, assistant coach, and head coach. She won three NCAA championships as the coach of Baylor in 2005, 2012, and 2019. Mulkey was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020 and was also inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Hortência Maria de Fátima Marcari is a former basketball player who is often considered to be one of the greatest female basketball players in Brazil, along with Paula, and regarded by specialists as one of the world's greatest female basketball players of all time. Marcari is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and FIBA Hall of Fame. She is known in her country as Hortência, and her nickname is The Queen.
Joan Crawford is an American former basketball player and member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, and Amateur Athletic Union Hall of Fame.
Denise Curry is an American former basketball player and college and professional basketball coach. Curry was inducted in the inaugural class at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
Amy Ruley is a former women's head basketball coach at North Dakota State University. Ruley has the greatest number of victories of any women's coach at NDSU, with over 600 wins, and led the Bison to 5 NCAA Division II championships. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. She is a graduate of Purdue University, where she was a member of the first varsity Purdue Boilermakers team, scoring the program's first points.
Jennifer "Grandmama" Gillom is an American former Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) basketball player who played for the Phoenix Mercury from 1997 to 2002, before finishing her playing career with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2003. Gillom is also a former Sparks head coach, also coached the Minnesota Lynx; and was, until 2015, an assistant coach of the Connecticut Sun.
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Billie Jean Moore is an American basketball coach. She was the first coach in women's basketball history to lead teams from two different schools to national championships. She coached California State-Fullerton team from 1969 to 1977 and UCLA team from 1977 to 1993. Her overall college coaching record is 436-196.
Nera D. White was an American basketball player. White played in the AAU national tournaments for the Nashville Business College team while completing her education at George Peabody College for Teachers, which did not field a team. Later, she led the United States national women's basketball team to their victory in the 1957 FIBA World Championship. Throughout her career, she was awarded numerous accolades, including her induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Playing at a time when there were no major professional women's basketball leagues in the U.S., White distinguished herself, receiving many accolades as one of the greatest female players in history. Talented in multiple sports, she also was distinguished as an All-World player by the Amateur Softball Association.
Lily Margaret Wade was an American basketball player and coach. Wade was inducted in the inaugural class at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
Janice Faye Lawrence Braxton is an American professional women's basketball player. She was born in Lucedale, Mississippi. Braxton was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Hazel Leona Walker was an amateur basketball player in the 1930s and 1940s. She is recognized as one of the greatest amateur basketball players of the era. Walker led her college team to the 1934 AAU National Championship, and earned All-American honors. She played professionally for the All American Red Heads Team, then left that organization to start her own barnstorming professional basketball team, the Arkansas Travelers. This team played for sixteen seasons against men's teams winning over 80% of their games. Walker was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.
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