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DATE: Wednesday, November 13, 1996 TAG: 9611130095
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
Former UCLA and European star Denise Curry and AAU standout Joan Crawford were nominated for election to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Curry, UCLA's all-time leading women's scorer, averaged 24.6 points and 10.1 rebounds a game during her collegiate career. In 1978, her freshman year, she played on UCLA national championship teams in both basketball and softball; in her senior year was named the university's athlete of the year.
Curry, now an assistant coach with San Jose of the American Basketball League, also won a gold medal with the U.S. women's team at the 1984 Olympics. During an eight-year professional career in Europe she was named the French player of the decade after leading Versailles to the 1986 and 1987 national championships.
Crawford, a 5-foot-11 center from Nashville, Tenn., was named to 13 consecutive AAU All-America teams and won 10 AAU championships with Nashville Business College in the late 1950s and 1960s.
She also boosted the United States to gold medals in the 1959 and 1963 Pan American Games and was a member of the 1957 U.S. team that defeated Russia for the gold medal in the World Championships.
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