Ruth Riley
Ruth Riley
Ruth Ellen Rileyis a retired American professional basketball player, playing most recently for the Atlanta Dream in the Women's National Basketball Association. Her Notre Dame team won the NCAA women's championship in 2001, and her Detroit Shock team won the WNBA championship in 2003 and 2006. Riley was the Most Valuable Player in the 2001 and 2003 championship series, becoming the first person to win the MVP awards in both the NCAA and the WNBA championships. She has also played...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth28 August 1979
comfort helped moves playing prepare work
It helped prepare me for the season. I wanted to get the comfort back of playing in the paint. I wanted to work on making different moves and getting different reads.
depends month pin wear wide
It's pretty much wide open. It may be two weeks, a month . . . it just depends on if I need to have a pin put in or if I just can wear a cast.
course decide hand
They just want me to come back and see their hand specialist. Then they'll decide on the course of treatment.
broken fingers happen
It's one of those things that happen in basketball. I've broken other fingers before, but never my right thumb.
teamwork mind together
We knew what it was like to go without a lot of things, but we didn't mind, because we were going without those things together.