Marie Kocurek
{{short description|American basketball player}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Marie Kocurek
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| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 1
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| birth_date = c.1956
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| high_school = Tuloso-Midway
(Corpus Christi, Texas)
| college = Wayland Baptist (1974–1978)
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| career_position = Center
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| draft_league = WBL
| draft_year = 1978
| draft_team = Houston Angels
| draft_round = 3
| years1 = 1978–1981
| team1 = Minnesota Fillies
| years2 = 1981
| team2 = Nebraska Wranglers
| highlights =
- WBL champion (1981)
- 2× WBL All-Pro team (1979, 1980)
- 3× WBL All-Star (1979–1981)
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Marie Kocurek (born c.1956) is an American former basketball player. After playing college basketball for Wayland Baptist University, she played three seasons in the Women's Professional Basketball League. After playing her first two and a half season with the Minnesota Fillies, she was traded to the Nebraska Wranglers in 1981 after publicly complain about the Fillies owing her 9,000 dollars in back pay.{{cite news |author1=Josephine Marcotty |title=Fillies hope debenture offering will score for sports long shot |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune-fillies-hope-debenture-offe/133831395/ |access-date=21 October 2023 |work=Star Tribune |date=15 March 1981 |pages=1D, 9D |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}{{cite news |author1=Doug Grow |title=She spoke up, got shipped out |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-minneapolis-star-she-spoke-up-got-s/133831729/ |access-date=21 October 2023 |work=The Minneapolis Star |date=20 February 1981 |page=9C |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}} With the Wranglers, she won the WBL championship in 1981.{{cite news |author1=Marshall Anderson |title=Wranglers won last roundup |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/corpus-christi-caller-times-wranglers-wo/133830613/ |access-date=21 October 2023 |work=Corpus Christi Caller-Times |date=9 March 1989 |pages=1, 4 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}