Telicher Austin (1997) - Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame

Telicher Austin

Induction:
1997
Class:
1989

Telicher Austin enjoyed a brilliant career at Rutgers as she established herself as one of the Scarlet Knights' all-time greats. She captured 1,789 points in her career and is one of RU's all-time leaders in assists with 371. Austin, who played with the Hall of Fame duo of Wicks and Sticks (Sue Wicks & Regina Howard), was a four-year starter on teams that won two Atlantic-10 Tournament championships and advanced to the NCAA Tournament all four seasons. During her freshman and sophomore campaigns, Rutgers advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. Austin began her career by becoming the first Scarlet Knight women's basketball student-athlete to earn conference freshman player of the year honors by being named the Atlantic-10 Freshman of the Year along with a nod to the Atlantic-10 All-Freshman team in 1986. Austin, a native of Patterson, N.J., went on to be named Second Team All-Atlantic-10 as a junior in 1988 and capped off her career with First Team All-Atlantic-10 and Honorable Mention Kodak District II All-American honors as a senior in 1989.