Ronald Paul Tomsic (born April 3, 1933) is an American former

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player. Tomsic, a

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born in

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, played college basketball at

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from 1951–1955. A three-time All-PCC selection, he scored 1,416 points in his Stanford career, the most in school history at the time. He scored 40 points in a game against USC in 1955, sixth on the school's single-game scoring list, and still holds Stanford's single-season

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attempts record. His name appears near the top of many other Stanford basketball scoring records. Following his graduation from Stanford, Tomsic was drafted by the

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in the 1955 NBA draft but did not play in the NBA. He played AAU basketball for the

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, and in 1956, was selected to be on the

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for the

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. In the Olympics, he scored 89 points for Team USA as the United States dominated its competition on the way to the gold medal. Ron has 3 children, Mark, Jill and Todd.

References

External links

Medal record at databaseOlympics.com
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