Nancy Lieberman-Cline

(1958- ) lived in Omaha. College and professional basketball player, entrepreneur, sportscaster, considered a pioneer in women's amateur and professional basketball, earned 1976 Olympic silver medal in basketball, during 134-game college career set records for steals and assists, first woman to play on men's professional basketball team in 1986; inducted into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996 and Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1999. Consult Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Basketball and Other Indoor Sports: Greenwood Press, 1989) 174-176 and Omaha World Herald, June 27, 1997, p. 29 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures, Vol 2 (2002) 41-43.

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