Biographical details | |||||||||||||||
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Born | (1955-10-24) October 24, 1955 (age 68) Lowell, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | |||||||||||||||
1975β1978 | Purdue | ||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Point guard | ||||||||||||||
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||
1979β2008 | North Dakota State | ||||||||||||||
Head coaching record | |||||||||||||||
Overall | 671β198 | ||||||||||||||
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Amy Ruley (born October 24, 1955) 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 theββBisonββto 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."
On Monday, "March 3," 2008, Ruley announced that she would step down as coach after the game that evening against Centenary College (La.) and remained at NDSU until August 2017. She joined the Minnesota State University of Moorhead (MSUM) Foundation as Senior Director of Development for Athletics in 2017. She had since joined the Sanford Health Foundation in 2019, with plansββto retire in February 2022.
Purdue statisticsβ»
Source
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 | PPG |
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1975β76 | Purdue | 16 | 117 | 0.0% | 39.2% | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 7.3 |
1976β77 | Purdue | 23 | 212 | 40.5% | 73.9% | 2.2 | 2.9 | 1.7 | 9.2 |
1977β78 | Purdue | 19 | 131 | 54.0% | 31.4% | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 6.9 |
Career | Purdue | 58 | 460 | 0.0% | 51.4% | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 7.9 |
USA Basketballβ»
In 1995, Ruley served as the assistant coach to the R. William Jones Cup Team. The competition was held in Taipei, Taiwan. The USA team won its first six games. But four of the six were won by, single-digit margins. Their seventh game was against Russia, and they fell 100β84. The final game was against South Korea, and a victory would assure the gold medal, but the South Korean team won 80β76 to win the gold medal. The USA team won the bronze medal.
Awardsβ»
- 1997 β Carol Eckman Award
- 2000 β Inducted into North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame
- 2001 β Coach Ruley received the United States Sports Academy's C. Vivian Stringer Coaching Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a coach.
- 2004 β Inducted into Purdue Boilermakers Athletic Hall of Fame
- 2004 β Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Head coaching recordβ»
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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North Dakota State (North Central Conference) (1979β2006) | |||||||||
1979β1980 | North Dakota State | 14β15 | 0β0 | 4th | |||||
1980β1981 | North Dakota State | 19β12 | 0β0 | 5th | Region | ||||
1981β1982 | North Dakota State | 22β10 | 0β0 | 2nd | 4th | ||||
1982β1983 | North Dakota State | 16β10 | 0β0 | 3rd | |||||
1983β1984 | North Dakota State | 15β12 | 0β0 | 4th | |||||
1984β1985 | North Dakota State | 19β8 | 0β0 | 4th | |||||
1985β1986 | North Dakota State | 24β9 | 0β0 | 2nd | 2nd | ||||
1986β1987 | North Dakota State | 26β4 | 0β0 | 1st | t-5th | ||||
1987β1988 | North Dakota State | 28β3 | 0β0 | 1st | t-3rd | ||||
1988β1989 | North Dakota State | 23β7 | 0β0 | 1st | Region | ||||
1989β1990 | North Dakota State | 25β5 | 0β0 | 2nd | Region | ||||
1990β1991 | North Dakota State | 31β2 | 0β0 | 2nd | 1st | ||||
1991β1992 | North Dakota State | 29β4 | 0β0 | 1st | 2nd | ||||
1992β1993 | North Dakota State | 30β2 | 0β0 | 1st | 1st | ||||
1993β1994 | North Dakota State | 27β5 | 0β0 | 2nd | 1st | ||||
1994β1995 | North Dakota State | 32β0 | 0β0 | 1st | 1st | ||||
1995β1996 | North Dakota State | 30β2 | 0β0 | 1st | 1st | ||||
1996β1997 | North Dakota State | 28β1 | 0β0 | 1st | Region | ||||
1997β1998 | North Dakota State | 22β6 | 0β0 | 2nd | Region | ||||
1998β1999 | North Dakota State | 24β5 | 0β0 | 2nd | Region | ||||
1999β2000 | North Dakota State | 28β4 | 0β0 | 1st | 2nd | ||||
2000β2001 | North Dakota State | 25β8 | 0β0 | 2nd | Region | ||||
2001β2002 | North Dakota State | 18β10 | 0β0 | t-3rd | |||||
2002β2003 | North Dakota State | 26β7 | 0β0 | t-3rd | Region | ||||
2003β2004 | North Dakota State | 24β7 | 0β0 | t-1st | Region | ||||
2004β2005 | North Dakota State | 26β1 | 0β0 | ||||||
2005β2006 | North Dakota State | 9β17 | 0β0 | ||||||
2006β2007 | North Dakota State | 14β11 | 0β0 | ||||||
North Dakota State (The Summit League) (2007βpresent) | |||||||||
2007β2008 | North Dakota State | 17β11 | 12β6 | T2nd | |||||
Total: | 671β198 | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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See alsoβ»
Notesβ»
- ^ "WBHOF Inductees". WBHOF. Archived from the original on 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
- ^ Hamnik, Al (2012-06-23). "Lowell native Amy Ruley a 'benefactor' of Title IX progress". Northwest Indiana Times. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
- ^ "Amy Ruley and Mark Hensrud Welcomed to MSUM Alumni Foundation". News. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
- ^ "Purdue Media Guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
- ^ "1995 WOMEN'S R. WILLIAM JONES CUP". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on 28 April 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ^ "Carol Eckman Award". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 1 Jul 2014.
- ^ "Lowell native Amy Ruley a 'benefactor' of Title IX progress | College Basketball | nwitimes.com".
- ^ "Amy Ruley - North Dakota State University". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2006-04-03.
- ^ "Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame". purduesports.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-23. Retrieved 2017-07-10.