Barbara Krause was one of Maine’s great female athletic trailblazers; she was a do everything player for Freeport High School, leading them to the State Championship crown her senior year. After high school, Barbara enrolled at Bowdoin College where she averaged 22.3 points and 14.9 rebounds per game in her freshman year. She transferred to Duke after her freshman year and captained Duke’s women’s basketball team in 1980 and 1981. She holds the record for rebounds in a single game (24), and she is ranked 10th in the Duke record books for her career 732 rebounds. Her average 9.9 rebounds per game is the second-best in school history and tied for seventh-best in ACC history.
