Heidi Wayment

Heidi A. Wayment (born July 29,  1956 in Rangely ( Colorado )) is a former American - German basketball player .

Life

Wayment, whose mother was German and whose father was American, played basketball and volleyball at Biola University in her home country, the United States , from 1973 to 1977 . In both sports she received "All America" ​​awards. In 2018 she was inducted into the “Hall of Fame” of the California university. With the student selection from the USA, the 1.90 meter tall indoor player won the gold medal at the Universiade in 1979 .

She played in Germany in the 1980s for the series champion Agon 08 Düsseldorf, with she also twice reached the final in the European Cup. Between 1989 and 1992 she played 30 international matches for Germany.

After her basketball career, Wayment returned to the United States, earning masters degrees from the University of Southern California in 1987 and from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989 . In 1992 she completed her doctoral thesis at the latter university and switched to teaching at Northern Arizona University in 1996 , where she later became a professor of social and health psychology. In 2005 she became German senior basketball champion with Bayer Leverkusen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Heidi+Wayment/1/3732.html
2. ↑ https://athletics.biola.edu/hof.aspx?hof=18
3. ↑ https://www.usab.com/history/world-university-games-womens/tenth-world-university-games-1979-1.aspx
4. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/DieWelt1985GermanyGerman/Apr%2001%201985%2C%20Die%20Welt%2C%20%2377%2C%20Germany%20%28de%29_djvu.txt
5. ↑ http://mahr.sb-vision.de/dbb/html/damen/ Spieler/spielespieler.aspx?spnr =32
6. ↑ https://in.nau.edu/psychological-sciences/heidi-wayment/
7. ↑ http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~haw4/Waymentvita2005.pdf