Dianne Norman
Dianne Norman (born the 5th February 1971 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is a former Canadian basketball player who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.[1] She Played many sports growing up including but not limited to soccer, rugby, field hockey and volleyball. Her first year on the Canadian national team was when she was 16. Dianne then went on to study political science and philosophy at Laurentian University. On top of the two Olympic Games Dianne was in three Pan Am Games (1991, 1999, 2003). She played professionally in Switzerland, Spain and Germany. Dianne retired in 2004, after 16 years. She is now the director of change management at Ryerson University and is a doctoral student at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She has children with U of T basketball coach John Campbell.
Awards and honors
- Top 100 U Sports women's basketball Players of the Century (1920-2020).[2]
- Named "All Canadian" four times
- Inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame
- Inducted into the Laurentian Hall of Fame
- Inducted into the New Brunswick Hall of Fame
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dianne Norman". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
- "U SPORTS unveils Top 100 women's basketball players of the century". saltwire.com. March 8, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2021.