Jerry Shipp

Jerome Franklin Shipp (September 27, 1935 – October 5, 2021) was an American basketball player. He played for the U.S. national team at the 1963 FIBA World Championship, 1963 Pan American Games and 1964 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal at the latter two competitions. Shipp was also a three-time Amateur Athletic Union All-American for the Phillips 66ers in Bartlesville, Oklahoma during the 1960s.

Early life Shipp was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on September 27, 1935. However, he was raised in Blue, Oklahoma, and attended Blue High School.

Basketball career

College Shipp enrolled at Southeastern State College (now called Southeastern Oklahoma State University) in the fall of 1955. He was taken in the 9th round as the 64th overall pick. He averaged 15.0 points per game, the highest on the team, while making 42 field goals and six free throws. They stumbled in the final round, however, going 3–3 (6–3 overall) and did not win a medal, finishing in fourth place. It was Shipp, however, that led the team in scoring. He guided Team USA to an unblemished 9–0 record while averaging 12.4 points per game—2.3 more per game than Bradley, who was second on the team in scoring. He spent the rest of his life in business, much of it with ConocoPhillips. Shipp was inducted into the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Halls of Fame.