Ron Tomsic

{{short description|American former basketball player|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| name = Ron Tomsic

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| birth_name = Ronald Paul Tomsic

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|April 3, 1933}}

| birth_place = Oakland, California, U.S.

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{{MedalSport | Men's basketball }}

{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

{{MedalGold | 1956 Melbourne | Team competition }}

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Ronald Paul Tomsic (born April 3, 1933) is an American former basketball player.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/to/ron-tomsic-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418073912/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/to/ron-tomsic-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |title=Ron Tomsic |accessdate=September 13, 2015}}

Tomsic, a {{convert|5|ft|11|in|m|adj=on|abbr=on}} guard born in Oakland, California, played college basketball at Stanford University from 1951 to 1955. A three-time All-PCC selection, he scored 1,416 points in his Stanford career, the most in school history at the time.{{cite book |last=Migdol |first=Gary |title=Stanford: Home of Champions |pages=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntBDmB_fYo8C&pg=PA5&sig=dQ8cE2nu119h8RZV4EXWYihBK90#PPA123,M1 |publisher=Sports Publishing LLC |year=1997 |isbn=1-57167-116-1 |access-date=2008-10-21}} He scored 40 points in a game against USC in 1955, sixth on the school's single-game scoring list, and still holds Stanford's single-season field goal attempts record. His name appears near the top of many other Stanford basketball scoring records.{{cite web |url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/stan/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/0708-mbaskbl-mg-sec09.pdf |title=2007–2008 Stanford Men's Basketball Media Guide |pages=147–151 |publisher=GoStanford.com |access-date=2008-10-21}}

Following his graduation from Stanford, Tomsic was drafted by the Syracuse Nationals in the 1955 NBA draft but did not play in the NBA. He played AAU basketball for the San Francisco Olympic Club, and in 1956, was selected to be on the United States national basketball team for the 1956 Summer Olympics. In the Olympics, he scored 89 points for Team USA as the United States dominated its competition on the way to the gold medal.{{cite web|url=http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=moly_1956 |publisher=USA Basketball |access-date=2008-10-21 |title=Games of the XVIth Olympiad -- 1956 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910035316/http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=moly_1956 |archive-date=2008-09-10 }} Since the death of Carl Cain on 2 June 2024, he is the last surviving member of the Olympic Champion's team of 1956. Tomsic has three children, Mark, Jill and Todd.