Sue Galkantas
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Sue Galkantas was a women's basketball player at Florida State. She is widely considered among Seminole fans to be among the best players the program has had.[1] Her number (43) is one of the few ever retired by the university.
Career
[edit]She is the only player in school history to score 2,322 points and 19.9 each game in 4 seasons. By the time she retired, she was the holder of 17 school records. She led FSU to back-to-back 20 win seasons in 1982 and 1983, although the Seminoles had never reached the postseason before. She was named a finalist for the 1983 Wade Trophy.[2]
She was selected to the 1982 and 1983 honorable mention All-American teams by several publications[which?] and was also named to Street and Smith's freshman All-American team in 1981. Of her 120 career games, she scored in double figures 115 times and had 54 20-point games to her credit, as well as 11 30-point games. She was the first female athlete at FSU to have her number retired.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Seminoles.com Catches Up With Seminole Legend Sue Galkantas
- ^ "1984 Media Guide" (PDF).
- ^ "Sue Galkantas Bio". Florida State University. Retrieved 2023-10-28.