Jeanne Ruark Hoff

Jeanne Ruark Hoff (born in Mississippi) is a former college basketball player for Stanford University and the mother of Olympic swimming medalist Katie Hoff.

Basketball career

An Air Force brat, Ruark lived in five states, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippines before enrolling at Stanford University in 1978.cite news|work=Baltimore Sun|date=2004-06-29|accessdate=2008-08-11|last=McMullen|first=Paul|title=It's fast lane for 15-year-old|url=http://www.exploreli.com/entertainment/localguide/golf/bal-sp.hoff29jun29,0,3573787.story] She became the school's first basketball star: in her freshman season of 1978-79, she averaged 21.3 points and 8.4 rebounds per game and was named to the first team of the Northern California Athletic Conference (in which Stanford women's basketball played from 1977 to 1982).cite book|last=Migdol|first=Gary|title=Stanford: Home of Champions|pages=p. 183|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ntBDmB_fYo8C&pg=PA5&sig=dQ8cE2nu119h8RZV4EXWYihBK90#PPA183,M1|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|date=1997 |location= |isbn=1571671161|accessdate = 2008-08-11] Her 21.3 points per game was a Stanford season record until it was broken by Candice Wiggins in the 2005-06 season.cite web|title=2007-2008 Stanford Basketball Media Guide|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=2008-08-11|url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/stan/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/08-wbaskbl-mediaguide-section5.pdf|pages=p. 88]

In 1980, she married fellow Stanford student John Hoff and took the 1980-81 season off. She returned to play two more seasons at Stanford, becoming the first Stanford player to score 2,000 points in her career. In 1982, she helped lead the Stanford women to their first-ever postseason appearance in the 1982 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament. She is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.

Personal

Hoff and her husband live in Towson, Maryland where she is a part-time health care worker with two children.cite web|url=http://swimming.teamusa.org/athlete/athlete/868|title=Katie Hoff|publisher=USA Swimming|accessdate=2008-08-11] Her daughter, Katie Hoff, is a swimmer who competed in both the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics, medaling in the latter games.

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