Lisa Becker's playing career:

Posted on: May 18, 2018 at 15:42:02 CT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Miss_Basketball

1982 Miss Iowa basketball, played on USA Women’s Jones Cup team in 1985

http://www.luckyshow.org/basketball/pics/newest/Lisa%20Becker.jpg

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http://www.luckyshow.org/basketball/Iowa6x6Complete.htm

12/11/1981 – Lisa Becker goes 30 of 36 from the field in totaling 63 points in a 92-73 win.

12/18/1981 – Lisa Becker makes 25 field goes and totals 51 points in a 66-58 win.

1/8/1982 – Lisa Becker scores 53 points in a 68-49 win.

1/29/1982 – Lisa Becker goes 24 of 31 from the field for 54 points in a 77-62 win.

2/1/1982 – Lisa Becker goes 22 of 27 from the field for 54 points in a 85-75 win.

2/6/1982 – Lisa Becker makes 33 field goals and totals 69 points in a 74-67 victory.

2/9/1982 – Lisa Becker makes 24 of 29 field goes for 50 points in a 92-51 win.

2/11/1982 – Lisa Becker makes 24 field goes for 54 points in a 73-71 win.

3/10/1982 – Lisa Becker makes 23 of 30 field goals for 54 points in a 68-77 loss.

12/18/1982 – Lisa Becker goes 25 of 29 from the field in totaling 61 points in a 98-70 win.

1/11/1983 – Lisa Becker goes 21 of 28 from the field for 55 points in a 77-52 win.

2/25/1983 – in the Cedar Rapids Regional Championship game Lisa Becker scores 71 points in her team’s 81-77 loss.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1983/09/14/04020018.h03.html

When Lisa Becker first considered playing intercollegiate basketball, the thought did not occur to her that she might have a better chance for a scholarship if she played the sport a state other than Iowa.

Iowa is one of two states in the country--Oklahoma is the other--where girls' high-school basketball is played with six players on each team. It is also a state that produces some of the top prospects for women's college basketball, and a state where the major girls' basketball tournament grosses four times as much money as those of neighboring states.

But Ms. Becker, who last week enrolled at the University of Iowa under an athletic scholarship, contends that the rules do not restrict girls' opportunities.

"Fundamentally, basketball is the same," said the young woman, a forward who averaged 58 points a game last year at Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids. "Six-on-six gives more kids the opportunity to play, which is what high-school sports is for. It's like an Iowa trademark."


https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1926&dat=19830531&id=m1crAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0dgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2744,2954471&hl=en

One of the most intense recruiting battles ever for an Iowa high school girls basketball player ended Friday when Lisa Becker of Cedar Rapids Jefferson signed a national letter of intent with the University of Iowa.

The 6’4 Becker was the state’s leading scorer this past season, averaging 58.8 points per game, and scored 3,192 points in her career. She reportedly was contacted by 225 colleges and had narrowed her choices to Iowa, Drake, Creighton, UCLA, Texas, and Minnesota.

http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/w-baskbl/stats/061004aaa.html

Member of the United States Select Team in 1985 and 1987. United States Olympic Trials in 1984. Set the all time Iowa freshman scoring record of 416 points which stood until 2010.

http://articles.latimes.com/1989-03-05/sports/sp-248_1_maryland-women

She was an all-American who ranked third in both career scoring and rebounding at Big Ten and national power Iowa. If she'd been a man, there is little question that Lisa Becker now would be in her second season in the National Basketball Association instead of in graduate school harboring memories.

"You want to have it in the right perspective and not dwell on the past, but when you play for so long it's such a part of you that you feel like it'll never be over," Becker, 24, said. "It was over for me at 22. I can understand how guys in the NBA feel when they're 30-something and can't play anymore."

Until five years ago, Iowa exclusively played six-girl basketball, in which three team members played offense on one end of the floor and three played defense at the other.

During her career at Jefferson, Becker was an offensive performer in six-play. She said that when she got to Iowa she was unprepared to go after rebounds, or play man-to-man defense. "I had to think through everything I did all of my freshman year," she said.

Niemayer also concedes the value of five-play in helping girls develop for college. "Look at what it's done for someone like Lisa Becker," he said. "I'm 51 and never been east of Gary, Ind. She's 24 and been around the world."

On one such trip, Becker wore a T-shirt celebrating a crowd of more than 20,000 at one of the Hawkeyes' games. "Most of the girls were in total disbelief," she recalled. "They couldn't believe that that many people would attend a girls game."