VIDEO: ROBIN THREATT, ALL-AMERICA CANDIDATE
and better.''
Threatt, 43, is working today for Janssen Biotech. She's still living in Indianapolis with her
three children – her oldest is 17 – and she's still
playing basketball. Or, at least, she was until getting injured.
Threatt fractured her foot last November while
playing a pickup game with the guys at Bankers
Life Field House (nee Conseco), the home of the
Indiana Pacers and Big Ten tournament, off and
on.
She hasn't gotten back on the court yet. "But I'll
get back out there,'' Threatt promised.
Rest assured, she will keep her word and won't
be down for long. As a UW freshman, she dealt
with some nagging back problems that sidelined
her for all but five games.
"I never felt my (college) career would be limited
because of that,'' she said. "It was just a matter
of figuring out how to resolve the issues. It was a
bump in the road.''
One that she eventually got over.
Athletically, she has always been gifted, a multi26 » VARSITY
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talented star, dating all the way back to her senior
year at Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
Threatt had scholarship offers in basketball,
track, volleyball and softball. How did she get
out of Iowa? How did she get away from Vivian
Stringer, the former Hawkeyes coach? And why
Wisconsin?
"They were one of the universities open for me to
do two sports. I was initially supposed to run track
as well,'' Threatt said. "I loved the energy of the
campus. It just felt so vibrant, so alive.
"I felt that was where I was supposed to be.''
Threatt's junior season, the 1991-92 season, was
historic in that the Badgers made their first-ever
NCAA tournament appearance after a third-place
finish in the Big Ten under coach Mary Murphy.
Despite losing to Montana in a first-round
NCAA game at the UW Field House, the Badgers
ended with a 20-9 record and set school records
for attendance overall and per game average.
Threatt set single-season marks for scoring average (19.8 ppg) and points (574). To no one's sur-
