Meet Courtney Delks

Courtney was born and raised in Sweetser, Indiana.

Courtney is one of the greatest athletes to come out of Grant County, Indiana. From a young age she competed as a multi-sport athlete and excelled in basketball, baseball with the boys, finished 3rd in the nation in the national Punt, Pass, and Kick competition, soccer, track, and cross country. Beginning at the age of 9, Courtney and her family traveled the country during the summer playing competitive basketball.

Courtney was told many times by outsiders that she was too short to become a collegiate basketball player. At the look of an eye, Courtney has never fit the typical profile of an elite basketball player. Courtney was always one of the shortest players on the court from the time she began playing basketball competitively at the Grant County Family YMCA.

Courtney is a true example to girls and boys basketball players throughout the world, if you have true love for the game, believe in yourself, and know how to work hard and compete you can defeat the odds.

Courtney was shy as a young girl and would sit in the car and cry because she was afraid to go in and train with the older girls, girls who were 3-4 years older, at Skills & Drills in Marion, Indiana. Courtney’s parents and the coaches at Indiana Warriors instilled having a fearless mentality into Courtney. As soon as she would get in the gym, at 6 years old she was dribbling and shooting the ball better than girls 3-4 years older.

Courtney spent countless hours on her family’s driveway in the sunshine, rain, snow, and wind completing basketball workouts focused on ball handling, finishing, shooting, speed and agility that she created. She would write her training plan down on an index card and put it in the pocket of her basketball shorts for reference while she trained. Many neighbors would wave to Courtney as they left the neighborhood to go to the grocery store, etc. and would return hours later to find Courtney still out on the driveway training and they would exchange waves again. If you stopped by the Moses’ driveway you would find chalk marks on the concrete half-court showing how many shots Courtney had made from certain spots that day.

As a player at Oak Hill High School, Courtney led the Golden Eagles to a four-year record of 97-9, including two state championship appearances. Courtney never won a state championship in high school, but she did not let the losses define her and her team, rather she would post the losing newspaper articles on her bedroom door and use it as motivation for her off-season training. As a senior she led the state of Indiana scoring, averaging 31.7 points. She also racked up averages of 4.8 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 5.0 steals as a senior, while shooting 55% from the field, 42% from three-point range, and 91% from the free-throw line. She holds 27 career, season, or game school records at Oak Hill. As a result, she was named 2010 Indiana High School Miss Basketball and Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year.

After her high school career, Courtney played for the Purdue University Boilermakers, where she finished eighth on Purdue’s all-time scoring list (1,674). She also finished as the all-time leader in three-pointers made (240) and free-throw percentage (90.6%), and fourth in three-point percentage (39.7%). For her efforts, Courtney was named First Team All-Big Ten. As a team, the Boilermakers won back-to-back Big Ten Tournament Championships and played in four straight NCAA National Tournaments. Courtney also holds an NCAA Tournament Record for most 3-pointers made in a NCAA Tournament Game, hitting 9-three pointers.

When her college career ended, Courtney turned down opportunities to play overseas, choosing to pursue basketball opportunities in the United States. This allowed her to work with the Indiana Fever — participating in coaches’ meetings, helping with practices, playing on the scout team, and more. She also helped with the Indiana Wesleyan University women’s basketball team and spent a season at the helm of the Marion High School Girls Basketball team.

In 2015, Courtney joined her husband in founding CTA and began training hoopers and adults to COMPETE every day. She enjoys being a wife and a mother to her two kids, spending time outdoors, and reading.

Purdue Highlights
2013-14 - Senior
Started all 31 games, finishing her career with 72 consecutive starts and 129 total starts, good for second-most in Purdue history ... named First Team All-Big Ten by the coaches and media, and was a unanimous pick by the coaches ... earned a spot on the 2014 WBCA/Allstate Good Works Team ... selected to shoot in the 2014 State Farm College Slam Dunk/3-Point Championship at the men[apos]s Final Four ... named to the Naismith Trophy Award Preseason Watch List, honoring the top-50 players in the nation ... averaged a career-best 15.5 points per game, good for eighth in the Big Ten this season ... shot 48.1 percent from the field, 44.7 percent from three and 92.6 percent from the free throw line, ranking 15th, second and second, respectively in the conference ... put up 20+ points 13 times, finishing with 29 games for her career ... scored a career-high 30 points at Toledo (Nov. 17), going 13-of-18 from the field, including four threes ... hit six threes en route to 26 points vs. IPFW (Dec. 8) ... scored 20 points in just 19 minutes vs. Central Michigan (Dec. 28), hitting seven-of-11 from the field and six-of-10 from three ... hit 10-of-14 from the field en route to 24 points in her final career game against Indiana (Jan. 17) ... scored a Big Ten career-best 29 points on Senior Night vs. Nebraska (March 2), going 10-of-11 from the free throw line ... finished as the No. 8 scorer in school history with 1,674 points, and the top all-time three-point shooter at Purdue with 240 career field goals ... shot an all-time Purdue-best 90.6 percent from the free throw line (290-320), good for second-best all-time in the Big Ten ... fourth-best three-point percentage in Purdue history, making 39.7 percent ... her 81 career double-figure scoring games are 13th all-time at Purdue, while her 4,024 career minutes are seventh in school history.

2012-13 - Junior
Named third team All-Big Ten by the coaches and media and earned Big Ten All-Tournament team honors as well ... served as a team captain ... led team in several categories including scoring (13.3 ppg), minutes played (32.9 mpg), three-point field goals and percentage (63-for-157, .401) and free-throw percentage (.926) ... finished first in the Big Ten in free-throw percentage, ranked eighth in scoring and was second in three-point field goal percentage ... scored double figures in 24-of-34 games on the season, starting every game ... scored 24 points on 9-of-13 shooting, including six-of-eight from three, against UConn at the USVI Paradise Jam en route to all-tournament honors ... put up 19 points on a six-for-eight game against IPFW ... had a string of nine-straight double-figure scoring games from Dec. 16 to Jan. 24, including a 24-point outburst in a triple-overtime win against Ohio State in which she played a career-high and Purdue record 50 minutes ... made the game-winner at Illinois for the second straight season, hitting a three with three seconds left in overtime ... scored her 1,000 point as a Boilermaker on Jan. 24 against Northwestern, cashing in her first three-point shot of the night on her way to a season-high 26 points (eight-of-13 shooting, four-of-six from three) ... poured in 21 points on just eight shots at Penn State, connecting on four threes and converting seven-of-seven at the charity stripe ... dropped 23 points at Minnesota, hitting seven-of-13 from the field, including three three-pointers and six-of-six from the free throw line ... averaged 13.3 points 4.6 assists, 4.3 rebounds and a steal per game in the Big Ten Tournament ... put up 21 points on eight-of-12 shooting in a NCAA Tournament first-round win over Liberty ... finished the season ranked 20th in career points at Purdue with 1,195, and is 12th all-time in career scoring average at 12.0 points per game ... her 85 games to reach 1,000 career points is tied for 10th all-time at Purdue with Jannon Roland ... owns the top free throw percentage in Purdue history, converting 90% (215-of-239) on her career, and set the top single-season output with 92.6% (75-of-81) in 2012-13 ... ranks 20th on the career assists list with 251.

2011-12 - Sophomore
Set NCAA Tournament record with nine three-pointers vs. South Dakota State ... Set school record with 47-consecutive made free throws, the longest free throw streak in the nation in 2011-12 ... Finished second on team for points (10.8 ppg) and steals (39) and third in assists (68) ... Averaged 10.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.1 asssists per game ... Led the Big Ten with 90.7 percent (78-of-86) season free throw average ... Scored career-high 29 points twice: at Northwestern and vs. South Dakota State ... Hit second most three-pointers on team with 43 ... Had career-high five steals vs. Illinois ... Missed the Kansas State game with concussion symptoms.

2010-11 - Freshman
Named to Big Ten All-Freshman Team .... Honorable mention All-Big Ten (media) ... Full Court Press third team Freshman All-American ... Six-time Big Ten Freshman of the Week ... Led the team in assists (105), three-point field goals (54) and minutes played (31.2 mpg) ... third on the team in scoring (11.7 ppg) ... Is third on the Purdue career charts for three-point field goal percentage (40.9%) ... Set freshman school records for three-pointers made in a season (54), three-pointers attempted in a game (12) and twice tied freshman record for threes made in a game with six ... Scored in double-figures 18 times, including season-high 26 points at Texas A&M.

High School Highlights
Averaged 31.7 points, 4.8 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 5.0 steals as a senior, while shooting 55% from the field, 42% from three-point range and 91% from the free throw line ... Tallied career totals of 1,956 points, 577 assists and 386 steals, all school records ... For her career, amassed 458 rebounds and hit 344 of 387 free throws (88.9%)... Led team to a four-year record of 97-9 and the class 2A state finals as a sophomore and junior ... Holds 27 career, season or game school records ... Led state in scoring as a senior with 31.7 ppg average ... Named 2010 Indiana Miss Basketball ... Scored 52 points in the two-game Indiana-Kentucky All-Star Game series, third-highest mark in series history ... Selected as 2009-10 Gatorade Player of the Year for Indiana ... 2010 AP first team All-State ... First team ICGSA All-State as a junior and senior ... All-conference all four years ... Three-time Chronicle Tribune Female Athlete of the Year and three-time Basketball Player of the Year ... Named first team Hoosier Basketball Magazine as a junior and senior ... Indiana Junior Core All-Star Team member.