Juliene Brazinski Simpson

(1953- ) lived in Wahoo. Athlete, college women's basketball coach, was cocaptain of United States women's basketball team that won silver medal at 1976 Olympics, has served as head coach of women's basketball at seven colleges for 26 years, and in the year 2000 was inducted into Women's Basketball Hall of Fame based in Knoxville, Tennessee; while playing basketball at John F. Kennedy College from 1970 to 1974, she earned AAU All-America honors each of the four years, and helped her team win two AAU national championships. Consult Wahoo /NE/ Newspaper, April 4, 1974, p. 3 and Bill Mallon and Ian Buchanan, Quest For Gold: The Encyclopedia of American Olympians (Leisure Press, 1984) 47 and Omaha Sunday World Herald, December 21, 2003, pp. E-1, E-2 and East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Women's Basketball Guide (2003-2004) 4.

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