What is Jerry Shipp?
[[File:1963-64 Phillips 66ers Jerry Shipp.jpg|right|200px]] '''Jerome Franklin Shipp''' (September 27, 1935 &ndash; October 7, 2021) was an American basketball player. He played for the [[United States men's national basketball team]] at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]], winning a gold medal.<ref name=GOSE>{{Cite web|title=Jerry Shipp (Basketball – 1955–59) |work=GoSoutheastern.com |publisher=Southeastern Oklahoma State University |date=January 1, 2007 |url=http://gosoutheastern.com/article.asp?articleID=263 |accessdate=April 28, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721054850/http://gosoutheastern.com/article.asp?articleID=263 |archivedate=July 21, 2011 }}</ref> Shipp was also a three-time [[AAU Men's Basketball All-Americans|Amateur Athletic Union All-American]] for the [[Phillips 66ers]] during the 1960s.<ref name=APBR>{{Cite web |last=Bradley |first=Robert| title = Amateur Athletic Union Basketball | year =2011|publisher = The Association for Professional Basketball Research |work =APBR.org | url = http://www.apbr.org/aau.html| accessdate =April 28, 2011}}</ref> Shipp was born in [[Shreveport, Louisiana]]. Shipp died on October 7, 2021 at the age of 86.<ref>[https://www.kxii.com/2021/10/08/longtime-texoma-basketball-great-jerry-shipp-passes/ Longtime Texoma basketball great Jerry Shipp passes]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shipp, Jerry}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:American basketball players]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the United States]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Shreveport, Louisiana]] {{US-sports-bio-stub}}