Jeanne Ruark Hoff (born c. 1960 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

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, and the Philippines before enrolling at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1978. She became the school's first women's 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). Her 21.3 points per game was a Stanford season record until it was broken by Candice Wiggins in the 2005-06 season. 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

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. She is a member of the

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Personal

Hoff and her husband live in Towson, Maryland where she is a part-time health care worker with two children. Her daughter, Katie Hoff, is a swimmer who competed in both the

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and

2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...

, medaling in the latter games.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoff, Jeanne Ruark 1960s births Living people American women's basketball players Point guards Stanford Cardinal women's basketball players