The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Texas to retire Kamie Ethridge's No. 33 jersey
09.04.2019 | Women's Basketball
Ethridge will become the first female student-athlete at The University of Texas to have her jersey retired.
The University of Texas will retire the No. 33 jersey of Kamie Ethridge in a halftime ceremony during the home football game against LSU on Saturday, Sept. 7 at Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. The 1986 National Player of the Year, Ethridge will become the first female student-athlete at The University of Texas to have her jersey retired.
A Lubbock, Texas, native, Ethridge starred for the Longhorns from 1982-83 to 1985-86. As the team's starting point guard, she led her 1986 Texas team to the NCAA Championship and a 34-0 record, marking the first undefeated season in women's college basketball.
A two-time All-American for Texas, Ethridge was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002 and the inaugural class of the Texas Women's Athletics Hall of Honor in 2000. In 1986, Ethridge was the recipient of the Honda Award for basketball and was the overall Honda-Broderick Cup winner across all sports, recognizing her as the nation's top female athlete. She claimed the 1986 Wade Trophy, awarded to the best women's basketball player in the country, and also garnered the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, which recognized the most outstanding NCAA Division I female basketball player under 5-foot-8.
Ethridge led the Longhorns in assists for three consecutive seasons (1984-86) and in steals for two years (1983-84 and 1985-86). She is the University of Texas' all-time career leader in assists with 776.
Ethridge won an Olympic gold medal with the United States at the 1988 Seoul Games.
Ethridge earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from UT in 1987, spending her final year on the Forty Acres as a student assistant coach. That began a 30-plus-year career in coaching, which included 18 seasons as an assistant and associate head coach at Kansas State (1996-2014) during the most successful time in that program's history.
Ethridge was the head coach at the University of Northern Colorado from 2014-18 and is currently the head coach at Washington State University. She has served USA Basketball as an assistant coach for the United States U18 and U19 national teams.
The Texas-LSU game on Sept. 7 is set for a 6:30 p.m. CT kickoff. The game will be nationally televised by ABC.
