Khadijah Rushdan was an All-Big East basketball player at Rutgers University who played professionally overseas. The St. Elizabeth High School graduate was 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