June Courteau retires

[ScarletteK80]

She sure did ref a bunch of our games over the years, and took a good deal of abuse from the RU crowd as well.

INDIANAPOLIS -- June Courteau is retiring as the NCAA's national coordinator of women's officiating after more than 40 years as a women's basketball official.

The NCAA said Friday her retirement takes effect May 31.

Courteau was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. She officiated in 12 NCAA Women's Final Fours, including five national championship games.

She handled games from 1968 to 2011. She officiated in the WNBA from 1997 to 2011 and worked the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

 

[Knight Time Fan]

June, like a few other refs, called em like she saw em - but what she was looking at was sometimes obscure.

She was not universally liked by fans. She couldn't have been all that bad or she would never have lasted so long or been inducted into the Hall of Fame. IIRC she started in the Sunbelt? or something like it and continued to ref that lower league even as she did the big conferences as well.