Rita Horky
American basketball player and coach
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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.
Basketball career
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.
Awards and honors
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]
Notes
- ↑ Iowa Wesleyan College Tigerettes at Hoopedia
- ↑ Ikard p 210–212
- 1 2 "Inductees into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame" . www.wbhof.com . Archived from the original on 2011-06-16.
- ↑ "Third Pan American Games -- 1959" . USA Basketball. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015 . Retrieved 15 October 2015 .
- ↑ Ikard p 119
- ↑ "FOURTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FOR WOMEN -- 1964" . USA Basketball. Archived from the original on 2012-04-24 . Retrieved 2009-08-21 .
- ↑ "FIFTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FOR WOMEN-- 1967" . USA Basketball. Archived from the original on 2012-04-24 . Retrieved 2009-08-21 .
- ↑ "WBHOF Inductees" . WBHOF . Retrieved 2009-08-01 .
- ↑ Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2004 , Iowa Wesleyan College
References
- Ikard, Robert W. (2005). Just for Fun: The Story of AAU Women's Basketball . The University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-889-9 .
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