Bio

No Goucher player—male or female—has duplicated or surpassed the school record Betsy Weingarten set by scoring 52 points in a women’s basketball game against Baltimore Community College in December 1986. In fact, the closest anybody has come is a 45-point effort by Renie Amoss in 1990.

In 1986-87, she supplied the Gophers with 31.1 points per game, an amazing figure that included her 52-point triumph.

At the time she graduated, Weingarten was the all-time leading scorer in the history of Goucher’s women’s basketball program, with 1,433 points. Four players have since exceeded that total, but none have topped the 28.2 points per game she averaged over the course of her four seasons with the Gophers.

Weingarten’s No. 24 women’s basketball jersey was retired in a ceremony that took place in February 2000.

As distinguished as her basketball career was, Weingarten could perhaps be recognized as the most outstanding female tennis player in Goucher’s history.

Her 18-0 win/loss mark in singles competition in 1986-87 is a single-season school record, both for the number of victories and highest winning percentage. The following year, she and her playing partner went 19-1 in doubles play, an all-time high .950 winning percentage.

Her career totals rank No. 1 in the history of Goucher’s women’s tennis program: 57 singles wins, 45 individual doubles wins, 28 team doubles wins, a .905 winning percentage in singles competition (57-6), and a .803 winning percentage in doubles play (45-11).

Weingarten, who was one of two outstanding senior student-athletes who were presented with Goucher’s Coaches’ Award in 1988, used an Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association (forerunner to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association) post-graduate scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School. She is now a senior vice president for Aimco, a national operator of apartment communities, and resides in Potomac, MD.