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

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Division II championships. She was inducted into the

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in 2004. She is a graduate of

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, where she was a member of the first varsity

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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 plans to retire in February 2022.

Purdue statistics

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USA Basketball

In 1995, Ruley served as the assistant coach to the R. William Jones Cup Team. The competition was held in

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. 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 100–84. The final game was against South Korea, and a victory would assure the gold medal, but the South Korean team won 80–76 to win the gold medal. The USA team won the bronze medal.

Awards

* 1997 –

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* 2000 – Inducted into North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame * 2001 – Coach Ruley received the United States Sports Academy's C. Vivian Stringer Coaching Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a coach. * 2004 – Inducted into

Athletic Hall of Fame * 2004 – Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Head coaching record

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