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Amy Ruley (born October 24, 1955 in Lowell, IN) 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 has led the Bison to 5 NCAA Division II championships. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004.^[1] She is a graduate of Purdue University.

On Monday, March 3, 2008, Ruley announced that she would step down as coach after the game that evening against Centenary College (La.) and remain at NDSU as an associate athletic director with responsibilities directed towards fundraising for the athletic department.

Contents

1 Awards
2 Head coaching record
3 See also
4 Notes
5 External links

Awards

2001 - Coach Ruley received the United States Sports Academy's C. Vivian Stringer Coaching Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a coach.^[2]

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
North Dakota State (North Central Conference) (1979–2006)
1979–1980	North Dakota State	14-15	0-0	4th
1980–1981	North Dakota State	19-12	0-0	5th	Region
1981–1982	North Dakota State	22-10	0-0	2nd	4th
1982–1983	North Dakota State	16-10	0-0	3rd
1983–1984	North Dakota State	15-12	0-0	4th
1984–1985	North Dakota State	19-8	0-0	4th
1985–1986	North Dakota State	24-9	0-0	2nd	2nd
1986–1987	North Dakota State	26-4	0-0	1st	t-5th
1987–1988	North Dakota State	28-3	0-0	1st	t-3rd
1988–1989	North Dakota State	23-7	0-0	1st	Region
1989–1990	North Dakota State	25-5	0-0	2nd	Region
1990–1991	North Dakota State	31-2	0-0	2nd	1st
1991–1992	North Dakota State	29-4	0-0	1st	2nd
1992–1993	North Dakota State	30-2	0-0	1st	1st
1993–1994	North Dakota State	27-5	0-0	2nd	1st
1994–1995	North Dakota State	32-0	0-0	1st	1st
1995–1996	North Dakota State	30-2	0-0	1st	1st
1996–1997	North Dakota State	28-1	0-0	1st	Region
1997–1998	North Dakota State	22-6	0-0	2nd	Region
1998–1999	North Dakota State	24-5	0-0	2nd	Region
1999–2000	North Dakota State	28-4	0-0	1st	2nd
2000–2001	North Dakota State	25-8	0-0	2nd	Region
2001–2002	North Dakota State	18-10	0-0	t-3rd
2002–2003	North Dakota State	26-7	0-0	t-3rd	Region
2003–2004	North Dakota State	24-7	0-0	t-1st	Region
2004–2005	North Dakota State	26-1	0-0
2005–2006	North Dakota State	9-17	0-0
2006–2007	North Dakota State	14-11	0-0
North Dakota State (The Summit League) (2007–present)
2007–2008	North Dakota State	17-11	12-6	T2nd
Total:		671-198
National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

Notes

^ "WBHOF Inductees". WBHOF. http://www.wbhof.com/inductees.html. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
^ http://www.gobison.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=11922&SPID=698&DB_OEM_ID=2400&ATCLID=75933&Q_SEASON=2005

External links

Amy Ruley profile at gobison.com

v t e North Dakota State Bison women's basketball head coaches

Colette Folstad (1965–1970) Carol Mondor (1970–1971) Sue Feeney (1971–1972) Sharon Anderson (1972–1973) Pat Halvorson (1973–1975) Judy Strachen (1975–1977) Paul KcKinnon (1977–1979) Amy Ruley (1979–2008) Carolyn DeHoff (2008– )

Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Knoxville, Tennessee

Coaches (43)

Lidia Alexeyeva
Leta Andrews
Geno Auriemma
Leon Barmore
Breezy Bishop
Joanne Bracker
Van Chancellor
Joe Ciampi
Jody Conradt
Fran Garmon
Dorothy Gaters
Theresa Grentz
Sue Gunter
Sylvia Hatchell
John Head
Jill Hutchison
Sonja Hogg
Andy Landers
Lin L. Laursen
Muffet McGraw
Sandra Meadows
Billie Moore
Lorene Ramsey
Harley Redin
Cathy Rush
Debbie Ryan
Amy Ruley
Linda K. Sharp
Marsha Sharp
Jim Smiddy
Marianne Crawford Stanley
Barbara Stevens
C. Vivian Stringer
Pat Head Summitt
Edna Tarbutton
Bertha Teague
Tara VanDerveer
Margaret Wade
Marian Washington
Dean Weese
Chris Weller
Dixie Woodall
Kay Yow

Contributors (20)

Val Ackerman Senda Abbott Mildred Barnes Patty Broderick E. Wayne Cooley Carol Eckman Betty Jo Graber Mel Greenberg Phyllis Holmes Claude Hutcherson Betty F. Jaynes George E. Killian Andrea Lloyd-Curry Darlene May Shin-Ja Park Lea Plarski Gloria Ray Borislav Stankovic William L. Wall Marcy Weston

Foreign players (7)

Hortência Marcari Uljana Semjonova Maria Paula Gonçalves da Silva Bev Smith Olga Sukharnova Michelle Timms Vanya Voynova

U.S. players (39)

Veterans (12)

Alline Banks Sprouse Joan Crawford Margaret Sexton Gleaves Rita Horky Patsy Neal Lometa Odom Doris Rogers Lurlyne Greer Rogers Hazel Walker Katherine Washington Ora Washington Nera White

Website: http:///www.wbhof.com/

v t e Carol Eckman Award winners

1986: Mapp 1987: Conradt 1988: Yow 1989: Hill-McDonald 1990: Jeremiah 1991: Washington 1992: Hutchinson 1993: Stringer 1994: Gunter 1995: Barry 1996: Rutherford 1997: Ruley 1998: James 1999: Summons 2000: Delaney-Smith 2001: Simpson 2002: Stevens 2003: Sharp 2004: Kane 2005: Henrickson 2006: Goestenkors 2007: Grentz 2008: Bruno 2009: McGraw 2010: Cook 2011: Boyle

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Name	Ruley, Amy
Alternative names
Short description	American basketball player-coach
Date of birth	October 24, 1955
Place of birth
Date of death
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