Jacqui Kalin (born January 27, 1989) is an American-Israeli former college and professional basketball 5-foot-8 point guard.
[1][2] In college at the University of Northern Iowa, she set the free throw percentage NCAA Division 1 career record, and was twice named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year.
[8] She was named the Jackie Stiles MVC Player of the Year, first-team All-MVC, MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, second-team College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America, Jewish Sports Review 2010-11 college basketball All-American, and the Most Outstanding Player in the Missouri Valley Conference women's basketball tournament.
[3][8] She suffered a torn right ACL while making a reverse layup in a pick-up game in September 2011, and redshirted in 2011-12.
[12][10][13][3] In 2012-13 she led the league in scoring (19.5 ppg; a school record), had the fourth-highest season free throw percentage in NCAA Division 1 history-and the highest of any senior (95.5%), and was named the 2013 Jackie Stiles MVC Player of the Year, the 2013 Scholar-Athlete of the Year (becoming the first player to win both distinctions twice in a career), the 2013 Marty Glickman Outstanding Female Jewish Scholar Athlete of the Year by the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Jewish Sports Review First Team All-American, MVC All-Conference first team, CoSIDA Academic All-America first team, and CoSIDA Academic All-District team.
[6][3][14][15] For her career Kalin was first all-time at UNI in scoring (2,081; 6th all-time in the MVC), 3-point field goals made (265), free throws made (484), free throw percentage (.920; the NCAA Division 1 career record, ahead of Shanna Zolman), assists (491), games started (136), games played (136), and minutes (4,352).
[19] She played her first season for the Ramat Hasharon professional club in the Israel D-1 league in 2013-14, alongside Laine Selwyn and Megan Frazee.
[2] She then moved to the Maccabi Ramat Gan club in the Israel D-1 league for her final season, playing for it in 2014-15.