Bronte Cockburn
Australian basketball player
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Bronte Cockburn (born 14 June 1941) is a retired Australian women's basketball player.
Biography
Cockburn played for the Australia women's national basketball team at the 1957 World Championship held in Brazil.[1][2] She was only 16 years-old when she travelled with the team to compete in the Championship.[3] Cockburn was captain of the South Australian junior school girls team which won the Australian trophy in 1954.[4] She was named to the All-Australian schoolgirls team the same year.[5] At 13 years-old, Cockburn was already playing top grade women's basketball in Adelaide.[6]
Cockburn is the daughter of Jack Cockburn, who won the 1935 Magarey Medal for the South Australian National Football Leagues best and fairest player.[7]