Julie Gross (born 27 March 1957) is a retired Australian women's
basketball
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Biography
Gross played for the national team
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during the 1970s, competing for Australia at two World Championships
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; 1975 held in Columbia and 1979 held in South Korea.
In 1978, Gross moved to the United States
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where she played basketball for Louisiana State University
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. In her first season with the Tigers
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, Gross became LSU's first Kodak All-American.[Louisiana State University]
2005-2006 Women's Basketball (page 4)
Media Guide. Retrieved 2012-10-02. Gross finished her career as the all-time leading rebounder in LSU history with 1,466 rebounds and was second on the all-time scoring list with 2,488 points.[ Gross and Maree Bennie (now Jackson), were the first Australian females to win All-American honours while playing college basketball in the United States.
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LSU statistics
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1957 births
Living people
Australian women's basketball players
LSU Tigers women's basketball players
Australian expatriate basketball people in the United States
Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
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