Pam Kelly
{{Short description|American basketball player}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
|image = Pam Kelly Louisiana Tech.jpg
| name = Pam Kelly
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| college = Louisiana Tech
| conference =Independent
| position = Center
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| career_start =1978
| career_end =1982
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| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 0
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| birth_place = Columbia, Louisiana, U.S.
| highschool =
| awards =
- Wade Trophy (1982)
- 3× Kodak All-American (1980–1982)
- Broderick Award (1982)
- Louisiana Tech Athletic Hall of Fame (1984)
| WBHOF = pamela-kelly-flowers
}}
Pamela Kelly-Flowers, a native of Columbia, Louisiana is an American former women's basketball player at Louisiana Tech University. She won two national championships for the Lady Techsters. She was named to the All-American team in 1980, 1981, and 1982, her school's only three-time All-American. Kelly won the 1982 Wade Trophy and the 1982 Honda Sports Award for basketball, awards presented annually to the best women's basketball player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. She was enshrined as a charter member into the Louisiana Tech Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984, and her #41 jersey was retired. She was inducted in 1992 into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.[http://www.wbhof.com/Kelly-Flowers.html Pamela Kelly-Flowers].
Kelly is married to Nathan Flowers Sr., and the couple has two sons. Her son John Flowers is a professional basketball player.{{cite news |last1=O'Neil |first1=Dana |title=Mom's lessons pay off for John Flowers |url=http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=5960112 |access-date=June 25, 2018 |work=ESPN |date=December 29, 2010}}
Louisiana Tech statistics
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!Year !Team !GP !Points !FG% !FT% !RPG !PPG |
1979
|Louisiana Tech |38 |721 |63.8% |56.4% |9.8 |19.0 |
1980
|Louisiana Tech |45 |932 |61.1% |59.4% |10.9 |20.7 |
1981
|Louisiana Tech |34 |595 |59.9% |60.3% |9.5 |17.5 |
1982
|Louisiana Tech |36 |731 |64.4% |69.2% |9.1 |20.3 |
Career
| |153 |2979 |62.3% |61.5% |9.9 |19.5 |
Awards and honors
- 1982—Winner of the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) for basketball{{Cite web|url=https://www.nola.com/sports/article_e7b783eb-3a98-57c1-8eeb-5cd987c37313.html|title=Louisiana Tech's Pam Kelly-Flowers is No. 21 on Louisiana's list of all-time top 51 athletes|last=Times-Picayune|first=James Summerlin, NOLA com {{!}} The|website=NOLA.com|date=August 2014 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-30}}
- 1982—Wade Trophy
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Category:All-American college women's basketball players
Category:American women's basketball players
Category:Basketball players from Louisiana
Category:Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball players
Category:People from Columbia, Louisiana
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