# Amy Ruley

Amy Ruley (born October 24, 1955) is a former women's head basketball coach at North Dakota State University. Ruley has the greatest number of victories of any women's coach at NDSU, with over 600 wins, and led the Bison to 5 NCAA Division II championships. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. She is a graduate of Purdue University, where she was a member of the first varsity Purdue Boilermakers team, scoring the program's first points.
On Monday, March 3, 2008, Ruley announced that she would step down as coach after the game that evening against Centenary College (La.) and remained at NDSU until August 2017. She joined the Minnesota State University of Moorhead (MSUM) Foundation as Senior Director of Development for Athletics in 2017. She had since joined the Sanford Health Foundation in 2019, with plans to retire in February 2022.

## Purdue statistics

Source
| Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | PPG |
| 1975–76 | Purdue | 16 | 117 | 0.0% | 39.2% | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 7.3 |
| 1976–77 | Purdue | 23 | 212 | 40.5% | 73.9% | 2.2 | 2.9 | 1.7 | 9.2 |
| 1977–78 | Purdue | 19 | 131 | 54.0% | 31.4% | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 6.9 |
| Career | Purdue | 58 | 460 | 0.0% | 51.4% | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 7.9 |

## USA Basketball

In 1995, Ruley served as the assistant coach to the R. William Jones Cup Team. The competition was held in Taipei, Taiwan. The USA team won its first six games, but four of the six were won by single-digit margins. Their seventh game was against Russia, and they fell 100–84. The final game was against South Korea, and a victory would assure the gold medal, but the South Korean team won 80–76 to win the gold medal. The USA team won the bronze medal.

## Awards

* 1997 – Carol Eckman Award
* 2000 – Inducted into North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame
* 2001 – Coach Ruley received the United States Sports Academy's C. Vivian Stringer Coaching Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a coach.
* 2004 – Inducted into Purdue Boilermakers Athletic Hall of Fame
* 2004 – Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

## Head coaching record

Statistics overview :
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason |
| North Dakota State (North Central Conference) (1979–2006) ||||||
| 1979–1980 | North Dakota State | 14–15 | 0–0 | 4th | |
| 1980–1981 | North Dakota State | 19–12 | 0–0 | 5th | Region |
| 1981–1982 | North Dakota State | 22–10 | 0–0 | 2nd | 4th |
| 1982–1983 | North Dakota State | 16–10 | 0–0 | 3rd | |
| 1983–1984 | North Dakota State | 15–12 | 0–0 | 4th | |
| 1984–1985 | North Dakota State | 19–8 | 0–0 | 4th | |
| 1985–1986 | North Dakota State | 24–9 | 0–0 | 2nd | 2nd |
| 1986–1987 | North Dakota State | 26–4 | 0–0 | 1st | t-5th |
| 1987–1988 | North Dakota State | 28–3 | 0–0 | 1st | t-3rd |
| 1988–1989 | North Dakota State | 23–7 | 0–0 | 1st | Region |
| 1989–1990 | North Dakota State | 25–5 | 0–0 | 2nd | Region |
| 1990–1991 | North Dakota State | 31–2 | 0–0 | 2nd | 1st |
| 1991–1992 | North Dakota State | 29–4 | 0–0 | 1st | 2nd |
| 1992–1993 | North Dakota State | 30–2 | 0–0 | 1st | 1st |
| 1993–1994 | North Dakota State | 27–5 | 0–0 | 2nd | 1st |
| 1994–1995 | North Dakota State | 32–0 | 0–0 | 1st | 1st |
| 1995–1996 | North Dakota State | 30–2 | 0–0 | 1st | 1st |
| 1996–1997 | North Dakota State | 28–1 | 0–0 | 1st | Region |
| 1997–1998 | North Dakota State | 22–6 | 0–0 | 2nd | Region |
| 1998–1999 | North Dakota State | 24–5 | 0–0 | 2nd | Region |
| 1999–2000 | North Dakota State | 28–4 | 0–0 | 1st | 2nd |
| 2000–2001 | North Dakota State | 25–8 | 0–0 | 2nd | Region |
| 2001–2002 | North Dakota State | 18–10 | 0–0 | t-3rd | |
| 2002–2003 | North Dakota State | 26–7 | 0–0 | t-3rd | Region |
| 2003–2004 | North Dakota State | 24–7 | 0–0 | t-1st | Region |
| 2004–2005 | North Dakota State | 26–1 | 0–0 | | |
| 2005–2006 | North Dakota State | 9–17 | 0–0 | | |
| 2006–2007 | North Dakota State | 14–11 | 0–0 | | |
| North Dakota State (The Summit League) (2007–present) ||||||
| 2007–2008 | North Dakota State | 17–11 | 12–6 | T2nd | |
| Total: | Total: | 671–198 | | | |
| National champion   Postseason invitational champion   Conference regular season champion   Conference regular season and conference tournament champion  Division regular season champion  Division regular season and conference tournament champion  Conference tournament champion ||||||