Liliana Ronchetti

Liliana Ronchetti (15 September 1927, Como – 4 February 1974) was an Italian basketball player. On club level, she played for Società Ginnastica Comense (1947-55, won the Italian League in 1950, 1951 (undefeated season), 1952 (undefeated season) and 1953, was the league's top scorer in 1952, 1953 and 1954), Bernocchi Legnano (1955-1956), Autonomi Torino (1956-57), Chlorodont Milano (1957-1958), Standa Milano (1958-65, was the league's top scorer in 1960), Zaiss Milano (1965-66), Ri.Ri Mendrisio (1966-71, won the Swiss League in 1967, 1968 and 1969) and Ignis Varese (1971-73).

She scored 51 points in a game once while playing for Comense, that is the record high for an Italian women's league. She played 83 games for the Italy women's national basketball team, participating in Eurobasket Women in 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960 and 1962.

After her sudden death only a year after she retired, the FIBA named the Ronchetti Cup in her honour. In 2007, she was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame.^[1]

FIBA Hall of Fame inductees

Coaches (20)

Alexeyeva Díaz-Miguel Donohue Ferrándiz A. Gomelsky E. Gomelsky Gaze Iba Kondrashin Newell Nikolić Novosel Primo Rubini Smith Soares Stirling Summitt Yow Žeravica

Contributors (32)

Airaldi Rivarola Ashry Atakol Bouffard Busnel Calvo Carneiro Dos Reis Greim Hepp Jones Killian Kozlowski López Martín Naismith Otto Pitzl Popović Ramsay Šaper Saporta Scuri Seguro de Luna Semashko Seye Moreau Stanković Steitz Ueda Vitale Wahby Yoon

Players (43)

Technical officials (14)

Arabadjian Bain Belošević Blanchard Dimou Hopenhaym Kassai Kostin Lazarov Pfeuti Rae Reverberi Rigas Righetto

References

↑ FIBA Hall of Fame page on Ronchetti, halloffame.fiba.com; accessed 16 August 2015.

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