Kerry Bascom
Encyclopedia
Kerry Bascom is a retired basketball
player. She played forward and center for the Connecticut Huskies
(UConn) from 1987–1991, scoring 2,177 points, a school record until broken in 1998 by Nykesha Sales
. She helped lead the Connecticut team to its first ever Big East regular season championship (1989), first Big East Tournament championship (1989), first NCAA tournament appearance (1989), first NCAA Tournament win (1990), and the first ever NCAA Final Four appearance (1991). Bascom is the first UConn player to be named to a national All America team. She would go on to play for the gold medal winning World University Game Team in 1991.
, where her graduating class included only 44 students. Schools in New Hampshire
in the small school division are allowed to add middle school students to their rosters. Because of that rule, Kerry was able to join the junior varsity team as an eighth grader. She scored 25 points in her first game and averaged 30 points a game on the junior varsity team, so she was added to the varsity team (after an exemption was granted). She scored 12 points in four minutes in her first game.
During her sophomore year her team won the Class S (small) basketball championship, and during her junior and senior year her team was runner up in the Class M (medium) championship. Kerry finished High School as Epping’s all-time leading scorer.
since they didn’t have any around the New Hampshire area. Kerry and her friend were 2 of the 12-member team who all hailed from New Hampshire. They traveled to Massachusetts every weekend that year, and the following year they started an AAU team in New Hampshire. This team ended up playing together for about five years. Of the 12 players, 11 of them went on to play for Division I colleges.
She worked at Mc. Donalds from the age of 16 until 18.
so Kerry wanted to stay close to home. She narrowed it down to UConn, Boston College
, Syracuse University
, Rutgers University
and Boston University
. She chose UConn, which was 2½ hours away. Bascom was Auriemma's first blue-chip recruit. Her freshman year was challenging as many of the upperclassmen had been recruited by the prior coach. Her freshman roommate was a senior, who would occasionally lock her out of her room.
When Kerry used to tell people she was going to UConn, some thought she meant Yukon
—as in the frigid Canadian territory—instead of the University of Connecticut, because at that time the school was not well known. That would all change. In her time at UConn the team had a lot of firsts for the university. The Huskies won the first regular-season Big East title (sophomore year). They also won their first Big East Tournament championship. In her senior year the team went to their first NCAA
Final Four trip. As at Epping, Kerry finished her career as the leading scorer in points with 2,177. In 1998 Nykesha Sales broke the record on a controversial play after she was injured. Kerry graduating with a bachelor's degree
in sociology
from UConn.
As of 2009, Kerry Bascom's career scoring average of 18.1 per game is the highest among all UConn players. Her scoring average of 22.6 in 1988-89 is the highest single-season scoring average among all Uconn players. In addition, she ranks among the top ten in UConn history for:
Bascom occupies five of the top ten positions in the most points in a single game list, as well as top ten positions in numerous other single-game categories. Bascom was a member of the inaugural class (2006) of inductees to the University of Connecticut women's basketball "Huskies of Honor
" recognition program.
Bascom received a special award on February 5, 2011, as part of the National Girls and Women In Sport Day. Bascom was the recipient of the award recognizing "an individual who has made significant contributions to the advancement of women's sports on the UConn campus".
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, England. The team was coached by Tara VanDerveer
, and teammates included Lisa Leslie
and Dawn Staley
. The USA team won all eight games it played, earning the gold medal. Kerry scored 40 points, played in six of the eight games, and hit ten of seventeen three-point attempts, for a team-best 58.8% three-point shooting percentage.
for one season. She came home after the season, and married a guy she had known since she was about 10 years old. They were together all through high school and college. Kerry missed basketball so she went to France
to play. After being married a year and realizing that she and her husband had actually only been together for about four weeks that year between her basketball schedule in Europe, and his endless hours as a rookie attorney, Kerry decided it was time to come home to be with her husband, to be a family, and get a job. Kerry was hired as a women’s assistant basketball coach at the University of New Hampshire
which she held for five years starting in 1996. Kerry also is a full-time case manager for Community Partners, overseeing services for individuals 21 and over with developmental disabilities in Strafford County, New Hampshire
. In addition she helps with the Special Olympics
. Kerry and her husband were married for about 15 years but are presently divorced, although they still remain friends.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player. She played forward and center for the Connecticut Huskies
Connecticut Huskies
The Connecticut Huskies, also known as the UConn Huskies, are the athletic teams of the University of Connecticut in the United States. The school is a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and the Big East Conference for all sports except Men's Ice Hockey and Women's Ice...
(UConn) from 1987–1991, scoring 2,177 points, a school record until broken in 1998 by Nykesha Sales
Nykesha Sales
Nykesha Simone Sales is a former professional basketball player in the WNBA, most recently for the Connecticut Sun. Her primary position is the small forward. Her second position is shooting guard. In 1999 Sales was added to the roster of the USA FIBA Senior National Team team...
. She helped lead the Connecticut team to its first ever Big East regular season championship (1989), first Big East Tournament championship (1989), first NCAA tournament appearance (1989), first NCAA Tournament win (1990), and the first ever NCAA Final Four appearance (1991). Bascom is the first UConn player to be named to a national All America team. She would go on to play for the gold medal winning World University Game Team in 1991.
High school
Kerry Bascom attended Epping High School in Epping, New HampshireEpping, New Hampshire
Epping is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,411 at the 2010 census. Epping includes the area known as Camp Hedding....
, where her graduating class included only 44 students. Schools in New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
in the small school division are allowed to add middle school students to their rosters. Because of that rule, Kerry was able to join the junior varsity team as an eighth grader. She scored 25 points in her first game and averaged 30 points a game on the junior varsity team, so she was added to the varsity team (after an exemption was granted). She scored 12 points in four minutes in her first game.
During her sophomore year her team won the Class S (small) basketball championship, and during her junior and senior year her team was runner up in the Class M (medium) championship. Kerry finished High School as Epping’s all-time leading scorer.
AAU
Kerry had a friend from a rival school call her and invite her to try out for an AAU team in MassachusettsMassachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
since they didn’t have any around the New Hampshire area. Kerry and her friend were 2 of the 12-member team who all hailed from New Hampshire. They traveled to Massachusetts every weekend that year, and the following year they started an AAU team in New Hampshire. This team ended up playing together for about five years. Of the 12 players, 11 of them went on to play for Division I colleges.
She worked at Mc. Donalds from the age of 16 until 18.
College
Kerry’s mom had been very sick with multiple sclerosisMultiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms...
so Kerry wanted to stay close to home. She narrowed it down to UConn, Boston College
Boston College
Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
, Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
, Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
and Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
. She chose UConn, which was 2½ hours away. Bascom was Auriemma's first blue-chip recruit. Her freshman year was challenging as many of the upperclassmen had been recruited by the prior coach. Her freshman roommate was a senior, who would occasionally lock her out of her room.
When Kerry used to tell people she was going to UConn, some thought she meant Yukon
Yukon
Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....
—as in the frigid Canadian territory—instead of the University of Connecticut, because at that time the school was not well known. That would all change. In her time at UConn the team had a lot of firsts for the university. The Huskies won the first regular-season Big East title (sophomore year). They also won their first Big East Tournament championship. In her senior year the team went to their first NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
Final Four trip. As at Epping, Kerry finished her career as the leading scorer in points with 2,177. In 1998 Nykesha Sales broke the record on a controversial play after she was injured. Kerry graduating with a bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
in sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
from UConn.
As of 2009, Kerry Bascom's career scoring average of 18.1 per game is the highest among all UConn players. Her scoring average of 22.6 in 1988-89 is the highest single-season scoring average among all Uconn players. In addition, she ranks among the top ten in UConn history for:
- Career Three pointers (161)
- Career three point field goal average(39.9%)
- Career Free throw percentage (.798)
- Career Rebounds (915)
- Career Rebound average(7.6)
- Single season points (680, in 90-91; 656 in 88-89; 615 in 89-90)
- Single season scoring average(22.6 in 88-89; 20.5 in 89=90; 20.0 in 90-91)
- Single season goals (246 in 90-91;244 in 88-89)
- Single season three point field goal average (.476 in 88-89)
- Single season free throws made (139 in 90-91)
- Single season free throws made (125 in 89-90)
- Single season free throws percentage (.837 in 90-91)
Bascom occupies five of the top ten positions in the most points in a single game list, as well as top ten positions in numerous other single-game categories. Bascom was a member of the inaugural class (2006) of inductees to the University of Connecticut women's basketball "Huskies of Honor
Huskies of Honor
Huskies of Honor is a recognition program sponsored by the University of Connecticut . Similar to a hall of fame, it honors the most significant figures in the history of the Connecticut Huskies—the university's athletic teams—especially the men's and women's basketball teams...
" recognition program.
Bascom received a special award on February 5, 2011, as part of the National Girls and Women In Sport Day. Bascom was the recipient of the award recognizing "an individual who has made significant contributions to the advancement of women's sports on the UConn campus".
University of Connecticut statistics
| Kerry Bascom Statistics at University of Connecticut | |||||||||||||||||||
| Year | G | FG | FGA | PCT | 3FG | 3FGA | PCT | FT | FTA | PCT | REB | AVG | A | TO | B | S | MIN | PTS | AVG |
|||||||||||||||||||
| 1987-88 | 27 | 94 | 202 | 0.465 | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 38 | 56 | 0.679 | 147 | 5.4 | 23 | 51 | 4 | 7 | 542 | 226 | 8.4 |
| 1988-89 | 29 | 244 | 440 | 0.555 | 60 | 126 | 0.476 | 108 | 139 | 0.777 | 237 | 8.2 | 46 | 79 | 11 | 36 | 874 | 656 | 22.6 |
| 1989-90 | 30 | 219 | 452 | 0.485 | 52 | 137 | 0.380 | 125 | 154 | 0.812 | 271 | 9.0 | 65 | 93 | 7 | 45 | 992 | 615 | 20.5 |
| 1990-91 | 34 | 246 | 470 | 0.523 | 49 | 142 | 0.345 | 139 | 166 | 0.837 | 260 | 7.6 | 87 | 74 | 5 | 39 | 1048 | 680 | 20.0 |
| Totals | 120 | 803 | 1564 | 0.513 | 161 | 408 | 0.395 | 410 | 515 | 0.796 | 915 | 7.6 | 221 | 297 | 27 | 127 | 3456 | 2177 | 18.1 |
World University Games(1991)
Bascom played for the USA team, one of sixteen teams at the fifteenth World University Games (1991) held in SheffieldSheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
, England. The team was coached by Tara VanDerveer
Tara Vanderveer
Tara VanDerveer has been the Stanford University women's basketball coach since 1985. She led the Stanford Cardinal to two NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championships: in 1990 and 1992. She stepped away from the Stanford program for a year to serve as the U.S. national team head coach at the...
, and teammates included Lisa Leslie
Lisa Leslie
Lisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood is a former American professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner...
and Dawn Staley
Dawn Staley
Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball player and coach. Staley is a three-time Olympian and was elected to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was named the University of South Carolina women's head basketball coach on May 7, 2008...
. The USA team won all eight games it played, earning the gold medal. Kerry scored 40 points, played in six of the eight games, and hit ten of seventeen three-point attempts, for a team-best 58.8% three-point shooting percentage.
After college
Kerry was Coach Auriemma’s first player to go overseas to play basketball (there was no WNBA at that time). She played in SpainSpain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
for one season. She came home after the season, and married a guy she had known since she was about 10 years old. They were together all through high school and college. Kerry missed basketball so she went to France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
to play. After being married a year and realizing that she and her husband had actually only been together for about four weeks that year between her basketball schedule in Europe, and his endless hours as a rookie attorney, Kerry decided it was time to come home to be with her husband, to be a family, and get a job. Kerry was hired as a women’s assistant basketball coach at the University of New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire
The University of New Hampshire is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire , United States. The main campus is in Durham, New Hampshire. An additional campus is located in Manchester. With over 15,000 students, UNH is the largest university in New Hampshire. The university is...
which she held for five years starting in 1996. Kerry also is a full-time case manager for Community Partners, overseeing services for individuals 21 and over with developmental disabilities in Strafford County, New Hampshire
Strafford County, New Hampshire
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 112,233 people, 42,581 households, and 27,762 families residing in the county. The population density was 304 people per square mile . There were 45,539 housing units at an average density of 124 per square mile...
. In addition she helps with the Special Olympics
Special Olympics
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 3.1 million athletes in 175 countries....
. Kerry and her husband were married for about 15 years but are presently divorced, although they still remain friends.
Awards
- 1991 NCAA Tournament East Regional Most Outstanding Performer
- Big East Player-of-the-Year 1989
- Big East Player-of-the-Year 1990
- Big East Player-of-the-Year 1991
- Kodak Division I All-American team
- Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall Of Fame
- New England Basketball Hall of Fame