JO HELEN WHITE CABBELL - INDUCTEE #140
hall of fame fast fact:
Once a shooter, always a shooter. Jo Helen White Cabbell played on the 1998 New Mexico Senior Olympics team that won the state tournament. In 2000, at age 65, she won the free throw shooting title in the Senior Olympic Games in Albuquerque.
Jo Helen White Cabbell
Jo Helen White Cabbell was a star basketball player at a time when girls basketball consisted of six players on a team, three on each half of the court. White played during a time of limited opportunities for women’s basketball, a time with no college scholarships.
She played on Bob Dowell’s AAU team: Dowell’s Dolls, coached by Bus Dugger. White could shoot with either hand; she averaged between 18 and 24 points a game for the Dolls. Once, the 5-foot-9 post player scored 53 points in one game. She was on the winning team at the Pan Am Games in Mexico City in 1955, winning the gold medal.
White graduated from West Texas State University with a degree in home economics in 1957.
After her playing career was over, she coached girls basketball for seven years at Los Alamos High in New Mexico. Her teams won 70 percent of their games.
Jo Helen White Cabbell played on the 1998 New Mexico Senior Olympics team that won the state tournament. In 2000, at age 65, she won the free-throw shooting title in the Senior Olympic Games in Albuquerque.
