Khadijah Rushdan '07 to be inducted into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame
Rushdan is the first athlete in any sport to be named 1st Team All-State 5 times.
Khadijah Rushdan '07, the first athlete in any sport to be named 1st Team All-State five times at St. E, then all-Big East at Rutgers, will be inducted into the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame on May 12, 2022!
Khadijah Rushdan was an All-Big East basketball player at Rutgers University who played professionally overseas. She is a 2007 St. Elizabeth High School graduate, and the first Delaware high school athlete in any sport to be named first team All-State five times.
At Rutgers, she recovered from a torn ACL to make first team All-Big East as senior. She played in the most games (135) of any Rutgers player ever, and is one of only two Scarlet Knights to record a triple-double. She ranks 20th in Rutgers scoring with 1,288 points. As a junior, she led the Big East in ball-handling, with the league’s top assist to turnover ratio.
At St. Elizabeth, she was five times first team All-State, and was named Delaware’s High School Player of the Year in 2004, 2006 and 2007. As a senior, she led the Vikings to the 2007 State Championship, set the girls state scoring record with 2,464 points, and was named a McDonald’s and Parade All-American.
She averaged 11 points, three steals and a team-leading six assists for the USA National Team’s gold medalists at the 2006 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship.
Selected 15th overall by the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2012 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), she played for Maccabi Ramat Chen in Israel before embarking on a college coaching career. She is currently the Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at The University of North Florida.
