DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Drake women's basketball player and assistant coach Lisa Brinkmeyer VanDeventer, 48, died Thursday after a courageous year-plus battle with brain cancer.
Brinkmeyer was an Iowa icon starting as a three-sport Iowa girls high school standout to a stellar career on the Drake women's basketball team, while later serving as an administrator with the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
Brinkmeyer was named 1993 Miss Iowa Basketball after leading Hubbard-Radcliffe High School to a perfect season capped off by winning the final 6-on-6 championship game ever played in the Iowa basketball state tournament.