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Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | 5 September 1956||||||||||||||
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Sport | Basketball | ||||||||||||||
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Deborah Ellen Huband [1] (born 5 September 1956) is a Canadian basketball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics. [2]
As a basketball player at Bishop's University, she set a U Sports single-game scoring record (since broken) with 50 points in a game during the 1981-82 season. [3]
With the Bishop's Gaiters women's basketball' program, she was part of three consecutive QUAA titles (1977-80), complemented by selections to the CIAU All-Canadian team twice, along with recognition as the Bishop's Female Athlete of the Year three times. [4]
As a member of the Canadian national basketball team, she served as team captain from 1979 to 1986. [4] Debbie Huband was a member of the bronze medal winning teams at the 1979 and 1987 Pan American Games. [5]
As the UBC Thunderbirds women's basketball head coach, Huband captured three national titles (2003-04, '05-06, '07-08), winning the Bronze Baby, and four conference championships (2006-07, '07-08, '11-12, '14-15). [6] On 11 January 2020, Huband captured her 338th regular season coaching win in Canada West Universities Athletic Association play, as the Thunderbirds prevailed over the Trinity Western Spartans by a 100-57 mark. [7] With the win, she eclipsed former University of Victoria head coach Kathy Shields for the all-time wins record in Canada West women's basketball. [8]