Jacqui Kalin

Kalin was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to Bruce and Linda Kalin, and is Jewish. She has two brothers, Michael and J.B., and a sister, Jenna. She and wife, Sarah Kalin, reside in Siren, Wisconsin where they also own and operate their brick and mortar coffee shop, Crosshatch Coffee Co. ==High school==

She attended North High School. In 2007 she was named Academic All-State by the Iowa Girls' Coaches Association (IGCA). Kalin played for the school basketball team for four years, leading it to a Class 4A Iowa State Championship in 2007, after which she was named to the 4A all-tournament team. As a junior she was second team All State, and as a senior she was first team All State. In 2007 Kalin was named the Sioux City Journal Metro Female Athlete of the Year. In her high school career she scored 1,143 points (third on North's career scoring list). As a senior she averaged 15.5 points, 5.4 assists, 3.9 rebounds, and 3.4 steals per game. She holds the school records for assists in a season (146) and career (324), and for free throws in a career (245). She was named MVP of the 2007 Iowa Basketball Coaches Association Goalsetter All Star Game. She was named all-conference as a sophomore, junior, and senior. Kalin played for the high school soccer team for five years, cross country one year, and track four years. She was named all-state in 2006 for the 400-meter hurdles, and holds the school and city record in the 400-meter hurdles (1:03.60). ==College==

Kalin attended the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). In 2009-10 she led the MVC with 89.7 percent free-throw shooting and was named first-team All-MVC and named to MVC Scholar-Athlete first team. For her career Kalin was first all-time at UNI in scoring (2,081; 6th all-time in the MVC), 3-point field goals made (265), free throws made (484), free throw percentage (.920; the NCAA Division I career record, ahead of Shanna Zolman), assists (491), games started (136), games played (136), and minutes (4,352). ==Professional basketball career==

Kalin next played two seasons of professional basketball in Israel. ==International==

She played basketball for Team USA in the 2013 Maccabiah Games. Kalin led the team with a 14.3 points per game average, and the team won the gold medal. Kalin was a member of the Israel women's national basketball team in 2014 during the qualifying tournament for the 2015 European Women Championship. ==Honors==

Kalin was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union Hall of Fame in 2014. That year she was also named to the Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Basketball 25-Year Team. ==Basketball administration career==

In July 2015, she became the Coordinator of Women's Basketball Operations for the Drake University women’s program, followed by a season as Assistant Women's Basketball Coach for the 2015–16 Drake Bulldogs women's basketball team. == References ==