Ruth Riley is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on August 28, 1979 in Ransom, Kansas, United States. Together with Shock teammate She won the 2003 WNBA title alongside Shock teammate Cheryl Ford., she won the 2003 WNBA title.
While in college, Riley played on the U.S. team in the 1999 World University Games in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The team won the silver medal.
In her freshman year at Notre Dame, Riley played in all 32 of the team’s games, starting in the final 26. Thereafter she was the starting center in all but one of Notre Dame’s games. She was a mainstay of the team in all four years, and consistently ranked high in the nation among women basketball players in field goal percentage and blocked shots. In both her junior and senior years she was an Associated Press First Team All-American selection. As a senior, she won the Naismith Award and was the Associated Press Player of the Year. In addition, she was the 2000-01 Verizon Academic All-American of the Year for the University Division I.
She has an older sister and a brother. Sharon is Sharon’s mother. In January 2018, she married Benjamin Hunter, a football player.
In 2005, she published The Spirit of Basketball: A Children’s Book.
Ruth Ellen Riley Hunter (born August 28, 1979) is a retired American professional basketball player (a center), playing most recently for the Atlanta Dream in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). 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 on teams that won the National Women’s Basketball League (NWBL) championship, the gold medal at the Olympic Games, and the 2010 EuroCup Championship. In 2019, Riley was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.
