November 8, 2014(2014-11-08) (aged 86) Newport Beach, California, U.S.
Nationality
American
Listed height
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight
195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High school
Oceanside (Oceanside, New York)
College
Colgate (1945–1949)
NBA draft
1949: 3rd round
Selected by the New York Knicks
Playing career
1949–1956
Position
Shooting guard / small forward
Number
9, 18
Career history
1949–1956
New York Knicks
Career highlights and awards
Consensus second-team All-American (1949)
No. 11 retired by Colgate Raiders
Career statistics
Points
2,135 (9.5 ppg)
Rebounds
834 (4.6 rpg)
Assists
548 (2.4 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Ernest Maurice Vandeweghe Jr. (September 12, 1928 – November 8, 2014) was an American professional basketball player. He was best known for playing for the New York Knicks of the NBA and for the athletic successes of his family. He and his wife Colleen Kay Hutchins (Miss America for 1952)[1] were the parents of former NBA All-Star Kiki VanDeWeghe and Olympic swimmer Tauna Vandeweghe, and grandparents of tennis professional Coco Vandeweghe.
Born in Montreal, Vandeweghe moved to Long Island as a teenager and played football, basketball and baseball for Oceanside High School where he was also a member of the Omega Gamma Delta fraternity. A 6'3" guard, Vandeweghe played collegiately for the Colgate University Raiders, where he was an All-American. He was drafted by the Knicks in the 1949 BAA Draft, and played in the NBA for six seasons. [citation needed]
After retiring from the NBA in 1956, Vandeweghe served as a physician for the Air Force while stationed overseas in Germany. Besides Kiki, he had three other children who were successful athletes: daughter Tauna won a U.S. national swimming championship in the backstroke (and competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics), son Bruk medalled in beach volleyball in the 1994 Goodwill Games, and daughter Heather was captain of the U.S. national women's polo team and followed in her father's footsteps through medical school to become a physician. [citation needed]
Vandeweghe served as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and served on the Olympic Sports Commission under President Gerald Ford, where he assisted with the development of two key pieces of sports legislation – Title IX and the 1976 Amateur Athletic Act. He was also a senior vice president with Focus Partners LLC, a New York–based financial services firm, and a consultant with the United States Golf and Fitness Association. He occasionally provided commentary for several sports publications. Vandeweghe died at the age of 86 on November 8, 2014.[2]
^Miss America: 1952 Archived 2008-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
^Goldstein, Richard (November 9, 2014), "Ernie Vandeweghe, Knick and Physician, Dies at 86", The New York Times
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