Hall of Fame
Jenni Ruff earned four varsity letters (1992-96) with the Cougars and finished her career with her name sprinkled throughout the WSU record book. The Mossyrock, Wash. native averaged in double-figures her final three seasons and led the team in scoring her junior and seniors seasons while helping the Cougars post 16 and 17 win campaigns, respectively. Ruff capped her career with arguably the best season in Cougar women’s basketball history, posting WSU single-season records of 685 points, nineteen 20-plus scoring efforts including seven 30-plus scoring performances and a 23.6 ppg scoring average while starting all 29 games as a senior. Ruff also set single-season records with 203 made free throws made and set the single-game scoring record with 41 points against California. To go along with scoring, Ruff also led the Cougars in rebounding at 8.8 rpg and added 70 steals and 90 assists and averaged 25.6 ppg in Pac-10 games. Following her senior campaign, Ruff was named Honorable Mention All-America by the Associated Press, All-District VIII by the WBCA and First Team All-Pac-10 Conference. Ruff finished her career second in scoring with 1,526 points, second in free throws made and attempted (400-560), third in scoring average (14.0 ppg), tied for third in assists (381), fifth in rebounding (727) and fifth in career starts (96) while playing 109 games. She is one of two players (Jeanne Eggart) to record over 1,000 points, 600 rebounds and 300 assists.
