Rita Horky
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1959 Chicago USA | Team Competition |
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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.
Basketball career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Iowa Wesleyan College Tigerettes at Hoopedia
- ^ Ikard p 210–212
- ^ a b "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
[edit]- 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.
External links
[edit]- Northern Illinois Huskies women's basketball coaches
- Basketball coaches from Michigan
- Basketball players from Michigan
- Basketball players at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Basketball players at the 1963 Pan American Games
- American women's basketball coaches
- People from Blissfield, Michigan
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in basketball
- Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games