Amy Privette Perko (2000) - Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame

Amy Privette Perko

Induction:
2000

Amy Privette Perko was a four-year starting guard on the women's basketball team from 1984-87. She earned Fast Break All-America honors from 1984-86 and was a second-team All-ACC pick in 1986 and 1987. Privette Perko graduated as the school's all-time leader in points, rebounds, assists and steals, and she still ranks among the top 10 players all-time in each of those categories. A three-time Academic All-America (1985-87), she was the recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in 1987.

Following her career and undergraduate work at Wake Forest, Privette Perko earned a master's degree in sports management from the University of Richmond.

She worked at the NCAA for over six years, and then at the University of Kansas as the Associate Athletics Direct and Senior Woman Administrator. Privette Perko left Kansas in 2001 to return to North Carolina where she was the first Team President named by the National Basketball Association for one of its men's basketball development teams, the Asheville Altitude.

Privette Perko has since been the Executive Director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. This independent group consists of university presidents, trustees, faculty and former student-athletes who advocate for governance and policy changes in college athletics to ensure that athletics programs operate within the educational mission of their universities.

She was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame in 2008.