Danny Rumph

Danny Rumph

American college basketball player (Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball)
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican college basketball player (Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball)
PlacesUnited States of America
wasAthlete Basketball player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth15 July 1985
Death8 May 2005 (aged 19 years)
Star signCancer
Education
Western Kentucky UniversityBowling Green, Warren County, USA
Sports Teams
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball (USA)
The details

Biography

Danny Rumph (15 July 1983 – 8 May 2005) was an American basketball player. He played college basketball for Western Kentucky.

High school

Rumph attended Parkway Center City Middle College where he played basketball for two seasons and averaged 22.1 points during his senior season in 2000–2001. The following year, he attended Maine Central Institute, a preparatory school, where he averaged 18 points and 7 assists per game.

College

Rumph joined Western Kentucky University in 2002. During his junior season, he started 29 of 31 games, averaging 9.1 points and 3.0 assists per game for the Hilltoppers as they went 22–9 overall and 9–5 in the Sun Belt Conference.

Death

On 8 May 2005, Rumph participated in two pickup matches in a local recreation center. While walking off the court after having just made the game winning basket, Rumph collapsed to the court and was later pronounced dead at the Albert Einstein Medical Center. An autopsy determined the cause of death was cardiomyopathy, an inflammation of the heart.

The Danny Rumph Classic basketball tournament is held annually in Philadelphia in his memory.

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