Amy Ruley
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 the Bison to 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.
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| Born | October 24, 1955 Lowell, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||||
| 1975–1978 | Purdue | ||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Point guard | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||
| 1979–2008 | North Dakota State | ||||||||||||||
| Head coaching record | |||||||||||||||
| Overall | 671–198 | ||||||||||||||
| Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 plans to retire in February 2022.