Women's Basketball

Miriam Rutzen
- Title:
- Recruiting Specialist
- Email:
- MiriamR@gators.ufl.edu
- Phone:
- 5511
Miriam Rutzen at a Glance:
University of Florida, Recruiting Specialist – Second Year (June 2018 – present)
University of Florida, Recruiting Specialist – Second Year (June 2018 – present)
- Joined the Florida women’s basketball staff as recruiting specialist in June 2018
- Organizes the team's recruiting data base
- Carries out the staff's recruiting initiatives
- Assists with the team's leadership development program; implementing strategies to improve communication, time management and team building
- Supervised the team's managers
- Coordinated with practice players
- Assisted with social media coverage
- Returned to her position in Biggsville, Ill. after she first joining the school district during the 2013-14 academic year
- Spent two seasons in Boulder handling the team's day to day operations
- Basketball Camp Director – West Central School District, Biggsville, IL (Summer 2013, 2016)
- Founder and Director – Reaching for the STARS Basketball Academy, Oquakwa, IL (Summer 2010 – present)
- Traveled to 26 countries conducting basketball camps and building relationships across the globe
- Education
- Harvard University (Bachelor's of Arts in Psychology with a secondary in Sociology, June 2013)
- Liberty University (Master's of Arts in Industrial Organizational Psychology, August 2017 - present)
- Hometown
- Blandinsville, Ill.



