Denise Curry
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Born | August 22, 1959 Fort Benton, Montana, U.S. | (age 64)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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High school | Davis Senior High School (Davis, California) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College | UCLA (1977–1981) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Denise Curry (born August 22, 1959)[1] 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.
College basketball
Born in Fort Benton, Montana, Curry moved to Davis, California by the time she was in high school. She graduated from Davis Senior High School. During her college playing career she led UCLA to AIAW National Championship in 1978, has been named All-America three times (1979, 1980, 1981), set fourteen school records and was all-time leading scorer (3,198 points) and rebounder (1,310 points). She scored in double figures in every one of the 130 games she played for UCLA. She averaged 24.6 points per game. Only one other Bruin player, Natalie Williams, averaged over 20 points per game at 20.4. As of 2008, she is still the top record holder in 10 categories for UCLA.[2]
She was named
UCLA statistics
Source[4]
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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1980-81 | UCLA | 36 | 930 | 60.3% | 78.1% | 10.0 | 3.7 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 25.8 |
1979-80 | UCLA | 30 | 855 | 60.3% | 89.3% | 11.2 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 28.5 |
1978-79 | UCLA | 34 | 803 | 60.6% | 80.9% | 10.0 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 23.6 |
1977-78 | UCLA | 30 | 610 | 62.1% | 76.9% | 9.1 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 20.3 |
Career | UCLA | 130 | 3198 | 60.7% | 81.8% | 10.1 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 24.6 |
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Amateur and Olympic competition
For the
Curry was chosen to represent the USA on the
Curry was named to the team representing the US at the 1979
Curry was a member of the USA National team at the 1983 World Championships, held in
In 1984, the USA sent its National team to the 1984
Professional basketball
With her professional team, Stade Francais, she won French National championships in 1986 and 1987.[13]
Coaching
Curry served as an assistant coach at the
Honors
Curry is a member of the
She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994.[16]
Her #12 basketball jersey was one of the first four retired by UCLA. She was honored on February 3, 1990, in a ceremony in Pauley Pavilion, along with Ann Meyers (#15), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (#33), and Bill Walton (#32). This was the key moment in the "Pauley at 25" celebration of twenty-five years of the arena. The primary criteria for being chosen was that all four players were three-time All-Americans.[2]
References
- ^ "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
- ^ a b UCLA Women's Basketball Media Guide (PDF copy available at uclabruins.com) 2006–2007 season publication
- ^ Crystal Langhorne Honored As 2005 USA Basketball Female Athlete Of The Year Archived June 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. USA Basketball, December 8, 2005 (List of previous winners)
- ^ "UCLA Media Guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2022. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
- ^ "EIGHTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FOR WOMEN -- 1979". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2009.
- ^ "NINTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FOR WOMEN -- 1983". Archived from the original on February 5, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2009.
- ^ "Eighth Pan American Games -- 1979". USA Basketball. June 10, 2010. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
- ^ "Eleventh World University Games -- 1981". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
- ^ "1979 Women's R. William Jones Cup". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
- ISBN 978-0942257403.
- ^ "Ninth World Championship For Women -- 1983". USA Basketball. June 10, 2010. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ^ "1984 WOMEN'S R. WILLIAM JONES CUP". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
- ^ a b "Denise M. Curry". Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
- ^ 2007 Titans Women's Basketball media guide. Cal State Fullerton Titans (PDF copy available at fullertontitans.cstv.com Archived February 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ "WBHOF Inductees". WBHOF. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
- ^ UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees Archived December 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine 1994 (7): Donald Bragg, basketball; Denise Curry, basketball; John Richardson, football; Larry Rundle, volleyball; John Sciarra, football; Kiki Vandeweghe, basketball; Peter Vidmar, gymnastics.
Bibliography
- UCLA Bruins Women's basketball media guide (PDF copy available at www.uclabruins.com)
External links
- Basketball Hall of Fame profile
- Long Beach State official Athletics site
- Denise Curry at FIBA
- Denise Curry international stats at Basketball-Reference.com
- Denise Curry at Olympedia
- Denise Curry at Olympics.com